Australian Churches Refugee Taskforce “cautiously optimistic” after Australia announces US resettlement deal
The Australian Churches Refugee Taskforce has welcomed what it describes as an “acknowledgement” from the Turnbull Government that arrangements for asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru are “unsustainable” after the Federal Government announced plans to resettle some of them in the US. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull yesterday announced what he described as a “one-off” […]
Australian Churches Refugee Taskforce says Australian Government bid to enshrine ban on refugees in law will create further “fear, uncertainty and trauma”
Christian refugee advocates have said proposed laws aimed at banning refugees permanently from ever obtaining a visa to Australia will “create further fear, uncertainty and trauma” among those who have ever been transferred to the regional processing centres on Nauru and Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island. Under the proposed legislative amendments announced by Prime Minister Malcolm […]
Church taskforce joins in calls for independent investigation into allegations of mistreatment of refugees and asylum seekers on Nauru
The Australian Churches Refugee Taskforce has renewed calls for a royal commission into the detention of asylum seekers and refugees on Nauru after The Guardian published a series of leaked files concerning inmates at the detention centre which it says corroborate previous allegations submitted to the government as far back as 2014. The more than […]