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Ariak's life in the Annexe: six months in solitary in immigration detention
9 Sep 2014: Iranian asylum seeker’s plight highlights the overuse of ‘restrictive detention’ in Australia’s immigration centres
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11 Sep 2014:
Joyce Chia: Today’s landmark hearing clearly set out the constitutional limits on detaining non-citizens. The federal government will now have to release or process thousands of asylum seekers
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11 Sep 2014: Judges say asylum seeker who accepted a temporary visa could not be barred from applying for a permanent one
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11 Sep 2014:
Ethicist co-author calls it ‘unacceptable’ that asylum seekers are subject to standard of care lower than elsewhere in Australia
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10 Sep 2014: Opposition groups say changes could mean fewer jobs for Australians, but business welcomes the proposals
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10 Sep 2014: Minister is ‘seeking alternatives’ to placing people who arrived in a four-month window in 2013 in camps
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10 Sep 2014:
Problems with the immigration department’s water treatment equipment has apparently led to dwindling stocks
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10 Sep 2014: Iranian asylum seeker’s plight highlights the overuse of ‘restrictive detention’ in Australia’s immigration centres
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9 Sep 2014: Detainee was held for six months in an ‘observation room’ where he was allowed limited contact with others
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9 Sep 2014:
Former Labor immigration minister says that claims his office asked for ‘the youngest looking children’ to be sent to Manus as a deterrent are inaccurate
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8 Sep 2014: Hamid Kehazaei, who had been detained at the Manus Island detention centre, had his life support turned off last week
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8 Sep 2014: In maiden speech, new high commissioner will point to a ‘chain of human rights violations’ in detention of asylum seekers
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6 Sep 2014:
Immigration minister says chief medical officer will conduct an ‘in-depth clinical review’ of asylum seeker’s medical treatment while on Manus Island
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5 Sep 2014: Hamid Kehazaei’s mother says she had to contact the hospital to find out her son was in a life-threatening condition
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4 Sep 2014: Both companies expected to retain contracts despite reports immigration department called for a change in management
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4 Sep 2014:
Asylum seeker whose personal details were exposed online had sought an injunction preventing their removal from Australia
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