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‘If anything happens to me, look after my family’: Manus Island death leaves unanswered questions on offshore detention

Published: 22 Mar 2024
‘The wait is too long’: the refugees left in PNG after a decade in Australia’s offshore detention

Published: 16 Mar 2024

‘Incredible failure’: KPMG rejects claims it assessed ‘the wrong company’ before $423m payment to Paladin

Exclusive: Firm’s denial comes after weeks of intense criticism, including accusations that it misled parliament

Published: 23 Feb 2024
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Behrouz Boochani: ‘I was not a victim. I was a fighter’

In a bohemian corner of Wellington, the former Manus Island detainee has found his way through writing and walking – despite, he insists, being properly lazy

Published: 16 Feb 2024

The Australian detention system was established to destroy us, but we refugees are still here

Behrouz Boochani

We were banished to Manus and Nauru, out of sight and out of mind. We are calling for a royal commission because the Australian public deserves the truth

Published: 30 Nov 2023

Published: 30 Nov 2023

Last refugees in Papua New Guinea to begin leaving ‘within weeks’ after Australian funding runs out

Exclusive: Men left without healthcare and facing eviction, while local businesses are owned tens of millions of dollars

Published: 22 Oct 2023

Refugees in PNG told they will be evicted after Australian-sponsored housing bills not paid

Exclusive: Former Manus Island detainees facing loss of accommodation, but the Australian government claims it is no longer responsible for their welfare

Published: 28 Sep 2023

Australia settles with family of refugee Reza Barati, murdered on Manus Island in 2014

Exclusive: The government has reached a confidential settlement with Barati’s family, who say they ‘fought for justice for Reza’

Published: 13 Aug 2023

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Published: 24 May 2023
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Behrouz Boochani, the refugee writer who exposed the cruelty of Australia’s island jail

One inmate became the voice of the men locked up on Manus. Behrouz Boochani and Ben Doherty look back at the risks he took to get this story to the world

Published: 21 May 2023

Manus Island and Nauru: previously unseen testimony and AI imagery reveal ‘unimaginable’ part of Australian history

The witness statements were collected during more than 300 hours of interviews with refugees as part of a now discontinued pro bono class action

Published: 8 Apr 2023

‘I need my freedom’: Mohammed Al-Bdairi should be at the birth of his child – but he remains in detention

The Iraqi refugee’s visa was cancelled in 2019 but the Administrative Appeals Tribunal overturned the ruling in December

Published: 17 Mar 2023

Anthony Albanese to push ‘family-first’ security treaty in address to Papua New Guinea parliament

Australian PM to call for ‘a swift conclusion to negotiations’ to treaty and say both countries should ‘work as equals with our fellow Pacific states’

Published: 11 Jan 2023

John Howard’s government considered letting offshore detainees into Australia in 2002

Cabinet papers 2002: records show there were growing concerns about management of asylum seekers in Australia’s offshore detention centres

Published: 31 Dec 2022
Behrouz Boochani in Australia: ‘Some of those politicians who barred me are gone. But I am here’

The Kurdish Iranian refugee was always confident he would prove Peter Dutton’s declaration that he ‘wouldn’t be permitted to come to Australia’ wrong

Published: 7 Dec 2022

Government and security company reach multimillion-dollar settlements with Manus Island guards

Multiple former employees of G4S who suffered physical or mental harm after 2014 riots have been compensated days into a predicted weeks-long trial

Published: 10 Sep 2022

We pretend there has been change under Labor but hundreds of refugees are still in detention

Behrouz Boochani

After taking happy snaps in Biloela the new government has made no effort to change Australia’s cruel immigration policy on refugees arriving by boat

Published: 26 Jul 2022

Published: 26 Jul 2022

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Painted with coffee and toothbrushes: Kurdish refugees enter the Archibald prize

Mostafa Azimitabar and Farhad Bandesh spent eight years in detention after fleeing war-torn homelands. Now they are vying for a $100,000 prize

Published: 31 Mar 2022
The Australian government’s argument against sending refugees to New Zealand was always absurd

Ben Doherty

Despite the take-up of the resettlement offer, nine years after it was first made, the architecture of Australia’s offshore detention policy remains

Published: 24 Mar 2022

Published: 24 Mar 2022

‘A bright new future’: how Australians are helping Canada’s private sponsors give refugees a fresh start

Eight refugees held for years in Australian detention have arrived in Canada under community sponsorship scheme

Published: 11 Dec 2021

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