By Eliza Borrello on Christmas Island Key points: The PM will announce anyone on Manus or Nauru deemed a risk to Australia will be sent to Christmas Island Detention Centre's high security North West...
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By Eliza Borrello on Christmas Island Key points: The PM will announce anyone on Manus or Nauru deemed a risk to Australia will be sent to Christmas Island Detention Centre's high security North West...
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By political reporter Stephanie Borys Key points: Federal Government recruiting health professionals to deal with refugee medical evacuations The Christmas Island job ads are promoting "tropical...
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Refugees transferred from offshore detention for medical treatment will be taken to Christmas Island, Australia's senate has been told. Read more on Radio New Zealand International
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By Joanna Menagh Three asylum seekers died after setting out on a makeshift raft from a sinking asylum seeker boat in 2013 in a desperate bid to get help, an inquest in the Perth Coroner's Court has...
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (Radio New Zealand International, July 27, 2016) – A Sudanese man who fled war and persecution and was injured in riots in Manus Island in PNG has been secretly deported from...
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08-10-2015 - Media reports in recent days claiming the Christmas Island Immigration Detention Centre is in ‘lockdown’ and that recently transferred detainees have been assaulted are wrong. There is...
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By Alexandra Fisher - exclusive Vietnamese asylum seekers at the Christmas Island Immigration Detention Centre say members of the group were bashed and injured during a targeted attack on Friday...
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Staff on Christmas Island have been told to prepare for the possible arrival of asylum seekers, according to Labor MP Alannah MacTiernan. An asylum seeker vessel made contact with marine rescue...
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Australian police are investigating a claim that a female asylum seeker in detention on Christmas Island has been sexually assaulted by another asylum seeker. The Christmas Island Shire President...
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By Peter Lloyd, staff Christmas Island's chief administrator has called on authorities to release the names of asylum seekers lost at sea during the perilous journey to Australia. In an interview...
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Simon Cullen, Canberra Australia's Government has been criticised over a proposal to house asylum seekers in tents on the Indian Ocean territory of Christmas Island. The Federal Immigration...
The immigration detention centre at Christmas Island has run out of regular beds following the arrival of another boat of asylum seekers. A boat carrying 63 people made it to the island yesterday...
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A boatload of 32 Sri Lankan asylum seekers has arrived at Christmas Island under the escort of the Australian Navy. The boat was intercepted off the Western Australian coast, near Barrow Island, on...
From IOM PRESS BRIEFING NOTES by Jean Philippe Chauzy, IOM Spokesperson A team of four IOM operations staff and three Dari/Pashto interpreters, including two women, have joined the 434 migrants...
From Federation News #19/01 The Australian Red Cross is flying an emergency team to Christmas Island to be on stand-by to carry out a needs assessment for the 438 asylum seekers stuck at sea on the...
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