Archived Posts
- November 13, 2016: Turnbull Announces Refugee Resettlement Deal With United States
- September 22, 2016: Turnbull Defends And Promotes Refugee Policy In Address To United Nations General Assembly
- August 17, 2016: Turnbull’s Economic Policy Speech To CEDA Disrupted By Refugee Protesters
- June 16, 2016: Liberals Maintain Focus On Boats
- May 13, 2016: Liberal Advertisement: What Do Shorten And Rudd Have In Common?
- May 9, 2016: “Our Policy Is Clear” – Liberals Pounce On ALP’s Border Protection Dissension
- March 8, 2016: Immigration Detention And Children: Statement From Immigration And Border Protection Department
- February 29, 2016: Melissa Parke: Speech On Asylum Seekers
- February 6, 2016: Daniel Andrews Offers To Settle Nauru Refugees In Victoria
- February 3, 2016: High Court Rejects Refugee Challenge To Offshore Processing And Resettlement
- July 25, 2014: Morrison Announces Tamil Asylum Seekers Will Be Brought To Mainland For Processing
- May 26, 2014: Scott Morrison Releases Robert Cornall Report Into Manus Island And Death Of Reza Berati
- February 21, 2014: Operation Sovereign Borders: Morrison Says People Smugglers On The Back Foot
- February 18, 2014: Morrison: One Dead, Thirteen Seriously Injured In Manus Island Disturbance
- February 4, 2014: ABC Says Its Reports Of Asylum Seekers’ Claims Should Have Been “More Precise”
- January 24, 2014: Morrison: No Boats For 36 Days
- January 23, 2014: Boat Arrivals In Australia: Statistics Since 1976
- January 22, 2014: Asylum Seeker Allegations: I Trust The Navy, Abbott Says
- January 21, 2014: Statement From Nauru Justice Department On Sacking Of Magistrate
- January 10, 2014: No Boat Arrivals For Three Weeks Says Morrison
- December 15, 2013: Code Of Conduct For Asylum Seekers Living In Australia: Full Text
- December 3, 2013: “You Should Not Come Because You Will Not Stay” – Abbott Claims Mandate For TPVs
- November 26, 2013: Scathing UNHCR Report On Conditions On Nauru
- November 20, 2013: Indonesia Demands Spying Explanation, Suspends Co-operation; Abbott To Respond; Shorten Invokes ‘Team Australia’
- November 15, 2013: Operation Sovereign Borders: Scott Morrison’s Weekly Briefing
- November 9, 2013: Indonesia Refuses To Accept Turned Back Boat; Asylum Seekers Taken To Christmas Island
- November 8, 2013: Abbott Abolishes Twenty Advisory Bodies
- November 8, 2013: Morrison Quizzed About Stand-Off With Indonesia Over Asylum Seeker Boat
- November 5, 2013: A Melbourne Cup Day Observation In Gosford
- November 1, 2013: Morrison Says The Boats Are Stopping
- September 30, 2013: Morrison Confirms 31 Dead From Asylum Boat Sinking
- September 23, 2013: Morrison Confirms ‘Tactical’ Secrecy On Turning Back Asylum-Seeker Boats
- September 23, 2013: Christine Milne And Adam Bandt Re-Elected To Lead Greens
- August 5, 2013: Embarrassing Interview With Jaymes Diaz, Liberal Candidate For Greenway
- August 3, 2013: Rudd Announces Asylum Deal With Nauru
- July 20, 2013: Full Text Of The Asylum Seekers Agreement With Papua New Guinea
- July 20, 2013: Alternative Universes And The PNG Solution
- July 19, 2013: Rudd’s Boat People Policy: All Asylum Seekers To Be Sent To PNG
- December 6, 2012: Scott Morrison Comments On Asylum Seeker Conditions On Nauru
- November 24, 2012: Government And Opposition Reflect On Five Years Of Rudd/Gillard
- November 21, 2012: Gillard Government Moves Yet Closer To Howard On Asylum Seekers
- September 10, 2012: Nauru Designated For Regional Processing
- December 26, 2011: Confusion, Timidity And Capitulation On Asylum Seekers
- December 23, 2011: Deadlock Over Asylum Seekers Remains Following Talks
- December 22, 2011: Government Offers Nauru To Abbott In Return For Malaysia
- December 22, 2011: Five Ways To Prevent More Asylum Seeker Tragedies
- December 21, 2011: Political Stalemate Over Asylum Seekers
- December 20, 2011: Bowen Calls On Abbott To Work With Government On Refugees
- December 5, 2011: ALP Conference: Some Votes Are More Equal Than Others
- January 14, 2011: Asylum Facts: Booklet From Parliamentary Library
- January 7, 2011: A Flurry of Activity – and it’s only January 7
- December 16, 2010: Gillard Announces Cross-Party Group On Christmas Island Boat Wreck
- June 17, 2005: Howard Announces Changes To Detention Policy; Families With Children To Be Released
- January 24, 2004: Howard Attacks Latham As ‘Weak’ On Border Protection
- January 24, 2004: Burnside Challenges Abbott’s Claim Of Moral Courage
- January 23, 2004: Latham Announces Labor’s Border Protection Policy
- May 20, 2003: Security Fundamental To The Cause Of Labor: Latham
- December 10, 2002: Simon Crean’s Address To The National Press Club
- December 5, 2002: Carmen Lawrence Quits ALP Frontbench
- December 5, 2002: Labor Releases Asylum-Seekers Policy
- July 10, 2002: Democracy And The Law Threatened By Howard Government: Burnside
- July 3, 2002: Admiral Chris Barrie Lashes Suggestion Navy Allowed SIEVX Victims To Die
- July 2, 2002: In Berlin, Howard Promotes Free Trade, Defends Refugee Policies
- July 2, 2002: In Europe, Howard Is Questioned On Refugees And Agricultural Subsidies
- February 21, 2002: John Howard’s Press Conference In Support Of The Governor-General
- February 19, 2002: “Children Overboard” Gallery Of Photographs
- February 19, 2002: Howard Grilled At Lively Press Conference; Tense Mood In Question Time
- February 19, 2002: John Howard Press Conference: Asylum Seekers, Defence Photos,Governor-General, SA Election
- January 26, 2002: Crean Calls For Release Of Women And Children From Detention Centres
- August 29, 2001: John Howard’s Border Protection Bill
Tampa
- Government Statements and Interviews
- Federal Court Appeal Judgement (Sept 18, 2001)
- Federal Court Judgement (Sept 11, 2001)
- Border Protection Bill 2001
International Media Coverage of the Tampa Issue
- G’Way, Mate – Los Angeles Times Editorial
- The Economist
- Tampa is Howard’s Belgrano – London Guardian
- The Times of London – The Times 2 – The Times 3
- South China Morning Post
- Australians Seize Ship to Keep Refugees at Sea – New York Times
- Mark Steel (London)
- The Times of India
- The Independent (London)
- Herald-Tribune
- Financial Times
- Troops board refugee ship off Australia – Boston Globe
- Readers in Australia respond to Tampa crisis – Norwegian Post
General Sites
- Australian Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs
- Ministerial and Departmental Statements
- Humanitarian Program Background
- Refugee and Special Humanitarian Programs (PDF)
- Sources of Refugees (PDF)
- Refugee Law – Recent Developments – Parliamentary Library
- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- United Nations Convention Relating To The Status Of Refugees
- ALP Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Policy
- One Nation Immigration Policy
- US Committee for Refugees
- Information on Australia
- Refugees International
- Refugee Royal Commission – an Australian site calling for the establishment of a Royal Commission into the Howard government’s treatment of refugees.
- Rural Australians For Refugees – a network of country towns offering support to refugees.