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New York Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Residents of Australia’s Christmas Island are hoping a new immigration detention center can revive the island’s economy.
No Borders Brighton (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
A special team of five reassigned Australian immigration officers has been assembled to 'fast track' the Oceanic Viking Tamils' asylum claims following the ending of their stand-off with the Indonesian authorities. The remaining Tamils holding out on the Customs vessel left for Tanjung Pinang Detention Centre after more than 4 weeks after their rescue. Immediately it appeared that Indonesia reneged...
Refugee Resettlement Watch (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
You can be sure these days to hear news from Australia about illegal immigrants reaching Australian shores and applying for asylum—five boats arrived this week alone! While applications for asylum are processed, the boatmen (it is mostly men) are detained on Christmas Island. In one more example of how diversity is so beautiful, yesterday, Afghani and [...]
BBC News (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Clashes erupt between Sri Lanka and Afghan refugees at Australia's Christmas Island immigration centre.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Clashes erupt between Sri Lanka and Afghan refugees at Australia's Christmas Island immigration centre.
Global Visas News (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
There has been a mass brawl at the notorious detention centre involving 150 inmates. See more Immigration News
The Independent Weekly (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Christmas Island detention centre authorities have separated the Afghan and Sri Lankan detainees involved in a brawl on Saturday.
The Age (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
A brawl on Christmas Island involving 150 detainees has injured 37 Afghans and Sri Lankans, several of them seriously.
Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
A brawl on Christmas Island involving 150 detainees has injured 37 Afghans and Sri Lankans, several of them seriously.
Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
THIRTY-SEVEN Afghan and Sri Lankans have been injured in a massed brawl on Christmas Island involving 150 detainees.
The Age (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Thirty-seven Afghanis and Sri Lankans have been injured in a massive brawl on Christmas Island involving 150 detainees.
What Really happened (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
AUSTRALIA'S new immigration detention centre on Christmas Island will have electronically controlled doors, bedroom cameras and electric fences. Plans for the detention centre, dubbed by opponents as “Australia's Guantanamo Bay”, show parts of the centre are comparable to a maximum security prison, Fairfax newspapers report. Electronically-controlled doors will allow centre-wide lockdowns....
The Tizona Group (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
A asylum seeker tourist boat has been intercepted off the north-west Australian coast carrying eleven people onboard. The asylum seekers tourists on the island are rehearsing a ‘welcome new guests’ play as entertainment. Some are using the high speed broadband to connect with friends back home and some talk of their adventures while holidaying on the island. Many don’t want to leave...
The Age (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
The United Kingdom would like the option to process asylum claims offshore just like Australia, a former British home secretary says.
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
AUSTRALIA needs to take responsibility for the 78 asylum seekers on a customs ship in Indonesian waters, West Australian Premier Colin Barnett says.
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