Australian Tamil refugee mother denied urgent medical treatment for weeks
Despite outrage in her Australian home town of Biloela, Priya Murugappan was flown to a mainland hospital only after suffering prolonged abdominal pain.
•Max Newman
Max Newman
Australian Labor Party exploits pandemic to scapegoat foreign workers
Labor’s call for immigration cuts lines up directly behind the drive by governments around the globe, personified by US President Trump, to promote toxic nationalism.
•Max Newman
Australia: Biloela residents continue fight to free Tamil refugee family
Angela Fredericks, a campaign leader, spoke to the WSWS after a recent partial legal victory.
•Max Newman
Australian court ruling means continued imprisonment for Tamil refugees from Biloela
The people of Biloela are continuing a national campaign, entitled “Home to Bilo,” demanding the release of the family and return home to Biloela.
•Max Newman
Australian police use COVID-19 emergency powers to ban refugee detention protest
The police action, which state Premier Daniel Andrews’ Labor government must have authorised, constitutes a direct attack on the right to protest.
•Max Newman
Australia’s imprisoned refugees plead for release as coronavirus risk increases
Detainees have protested at being held “in a potential death trap in which we have no option or means to protect ourselves.”
•Max Newman
Australian government continues to imprison Tamil refugee family
Despite legal challenges and widespread opposition, the government remains determined to deport the family to Sri Lanka.
•Max Newman
Access to disability funding for Australian children depends on wealth
Children in poorer suburbs can wait hundreds of days for essential support services.
•Max Newman
Australian government releases whitewash report after more than 1,200 people die waiting for disability services
More than one person a day has died since July 2016 waiting for National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) support packages.
•Max Newman
Australian disability centre closures result in nearly a dozen deaths
Former residents of a disability centre in Newcastle have died after being transferred to under-funded group homes via the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
•Max Newman
Australian government forces refugees back to face repression in Sri Lanka
At least 20 more asylum seekers have been detained by the Australian navy and deported to Sri Lanka to face possible torture and imprisonment.
•Max Newman
Biloela resident: “It is really important that we stand up”
Australian rural town continues to fight deportation of Tamil refugee family
Biloela residents have been conducting a nearly year-long campaign to free a Tamil family seized by the government from their community.
•Max Newman
Lawsuits against Australian government reveal horror in refugee camp
Former Manus Island detention centre security staff members have filed cases alleging physical and psychological harm.
•Max Newman
MSF reveals “mental health suffering” in Australia’s Nauru refugee detention camp
Médecins Sans Frontières said the mental health problems were among the worst it had ever seen anywhere in the world.
•Max Newman
Australia: Welfare cut leaves asylum seekers facing destitution
A new report shows that nearly 80 percent of those cut off benefits are at risk of homelessness.
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Government declares child refugees will not remain in Australia
The government’s promise to evacuate detained children from Nauru is a ploy to placate the public outcry over their barbaric treatment.
•Max Newman
Young girl imprisoned on Nauru at “high risk of suicide” if not evacuated to Australia
The child is one of dozens of detainees under the age of 18 suffering trauma due to their imprisonment on the tiny Pacific island.
•Max Newman
Australian government rushes to deport Vietnamese refugees
After a manhunt in a Queensland rainforest, 17 Vietnamese men were rounded up for deportation “at the first available opportunity.”
•Max Newman
Inquest shows Australian governments directly responsible for refugee’s death
Coroner rules Hamid Khazaei’s death was a “preventable” outcome of “the policy of offshore processing.”
•Max Newman
Australian governments illegally sailed refugee boats to distant reef
Successive governments flouted the law to declare asylum seekers “offshore arrivals.”
•Max Newman