Refugees & Asylum Seekers

• Articles (Restricted Access)
• Debunking the myths about asylum seekers - from the Edmund Rice Centre

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

• 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.