Project SafeCom Coordinator Jack Smit talks to an ABC reporter during a street event in Fremantle
The News and Updates: Sample newsletters
Samples of Project SafeCom's renowned News and Updates
Below are some of the Project SafeCom News and Updates newsletters. We have issued these well-known newsletters on a 'news-needs' basis, sometimes as a daily broadcast, since 2002.
Our News and Updates have kept hundreds of human rights advocates, refugee rights activists, lawyers, migration agents, politicians and many of our members and supporters informed about the state of affairs around Australia since the Tampa Affair in 2001. During 2017 we begun scaling down the activity, and we have now closed the list for new subscribers.
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9 January 2009: Broadcasting our news alerts - In August 2002 we sent our first and eleborate News alert, followed by another one in November that year. We repeated the initiative when country-wide outrage erupted as a result of the Anti-terrorism Bill 2005. From 2009, after the creation of our new database platform by David Coulter, we've started to use the pure HTML News alerts again to broadcast our news and progress periodically.
15 May 2006: From the Boondocks of Narrogin to the WACOSS Conference - The paper 'Having a finger in the pie in Canberra from the boondocks in Narrogin' as well as 'Working with the issue of Fear and Public Policy' were Project SafeCom's two deliveries to the peak body's conference.
30 March 2006: Our Newsletter Survey: What you told us - In March 2006 we conducted a Poll amongst the subscribers to our highly regarded Project SafeCom News and Updates. This page outlines and analyses the results of that survey.
1 February 2006: Project SafeCom's higly acclaimed News and Updates - our (almost Daily) News and Updates have kept hundreds of human rights advocates, refugee rights activists, lawyers, migration agents, politicians and many of our members and supporters informed about the state of affairs around Australia since the Tampa Affair in 2001. Here's the subscription page.
News and Updates 2018:
- News and Updates - Sunday, 30 September 2018 - Australia is reported to UN human rights council over illegal detention of asylum seekers. (PDF File, 229 Kb)
- News and Updates - Friday, 31 August 2018 - Jack Latimore: Australia is deplorably racist, as people of colour are reminded when they speak up. (PDF File, 229 Kb)
- News and Updates - Tuesday, 31 July 2018 - Australia is wilfully damaging the health of children on Nauru to make a point – and it is appalling. (PDF File, 229 Kb)
- News and Updates - Saturday, 30 June 2018 - Former spy boss alarmed by Dutton proposals for electronic computer attacks. (PDF File, 229 Kb)
- News and Updates - Thursday, 31 May 2018 - Human Rights Commission pushes back against Peter Dutton bid for more powers. (PDF File, 229 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 30 April 2018 - ABF 'obstructed' medical transfers from Nauru, Roman Quaedvlieg admits. (PDF File, 229 Kb)
- News and Updates - Saturday, 31 March 2018 - Paul Syvret: Our nation has a black and shrivelled soul. (PDF File, 229 Kb)
- News and Updates - Wednesday, 28 February 2018 - UN Officials Warn Australia Against Imposing "Extreme Penalties" For Journalists. (PDF File, 229 Kb)
- News and Updates - Thursday, 25 January 2018 - Refugees needing medical care told to leave children alone in offshore detention. (PDF File, 229 Kb)
News and Updates 2017:
- News and Updates - Saturday, 23 December 2017 - Manus Island protesters block access to refugee accommodation, supplies. (PDF File, 229 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday, 10 December 2017 - Turnbull government scrambles after losing vote on New Zealand refugee offer. (PDF File, 277 Kb)
- News and Updates - Saturday, 9 December 2017 - SPECIAL Newsletter: The Behrouz Boochani reports. (PDF File, 111 Kb)
- News and Updates - Thursday, 23 November 2017 - 'We don't want them here if they are unhappy': simmering tensions on Manus Island. (PDF File, 260 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 13 November 2017 - New York Times: Refugees Refuse to Be Moved by Australia: 'We Are Not Safe Outside'. (PDF File, 296 Kb)
- News and Updates - Friday, 10 November 2017 - PNG says it will remove refugees from Australian detention camp by force if necessary. (PDF File, 263 Kb)
- News and Updates - Saturday, 4 November 2017 - PNG says it will remove refugees from Australian detention camp by force if necessary. (PDF File, 272 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday, 13 August 2017 - Behrouz Boochani: Days before the forced closure of Manus, we have no safe place to go. (PDF File, 237 Kb)
- News and Updates - Tuesday, 17 October 2017 - Daniel Webb: Beyond the politicised white noise, refugees are being brutally mistreated. (PDF File, 271 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 25 September 2017 - Peter Dutton introduces bill to ban phones from immigration detainees. (PDF File, 259 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 4 September 2017 - Claire Higgins: Dutton should learn to live with lawyers helping in matters of life and death. (PDF File, 191 Kb)
- News and Updates - Wednesday, 30 August 2017 - Lawyers representing asylum seekers are 'un-Australian', says Peter Dutton. (PDF File, 246 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday, 13 August 2017 - New York Times: Refugees Refuse to Be Moved by Australia: 'We Are Not Safe Outside'. (PDF File, 215 Kb)
- News and Updates - Tuesday, 1 August 2017 - United Nations claims government had agreed to resettle some refugees in Australia under US deal. (PDF File, 273 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday, 16 July 2017 - Indonesian boy wrongfully jailed in WA adult prison for people smuggling has conviction overturned. (PDF File, 246 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 19 June 2017 - Government to pay damages to 1,905 Manus Island detainees in class action. (PDF File, 278 Kb)
- News and Updates - Thursday, 25 May 2017 - Peter Dutton's 'fake refugees' policy could face court challenge from refugee lawyers. (PDF File, 255 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 15 May 2017 - 'The system here is broken': Secret recording reveals failures of offshore detention regime. (PDF File, 252 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 1 May 2017 - Peter Dutton defends comments over 'five-year-old' boy and Manus shooting incident. (PDF File, 209 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday, 23 April 2017 - Manus Island detention centre shot at by PNG Defence Force members, detainees say. (PDF File, 247 Kb)
- News and Updates - Tuesday, 11 April 2017 - US officials fingerprint refugees on Manus Island as part of US-Australia resettlement deal. (PDF File, 247 Kb)
- News and Updates - Tuesday, 28 March 2017 - Manus centre has been closed, PNG chief justice says - despite the 800 men still held there. (PDF File, 255 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday, 12 March 2017 - Turnbull government quietly planning massive new Department of Homeland Security. (PDF File, 252 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 27 February 2017 - Asylum seekers' applications doomed to fail after visa deadline changes, says refugee support service. (PDF File, 155 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 20 February 2017 - International Criminal Court told Australia's detention regime could be a crime against humanity. (PDF File, 264 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday, 5 February 2017 - Confusion as White House backtracks after saying Trump will honour Malcolm Turnbull's US refugee deal. (PDF File, 316 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday, 29 January 2017 - Julie Bishop speaks to US Vice President Mike Pence, refuses to express confidence in refugee swap. (PDF File, 247 Kb)
- News and Updates - Thursday, 26 January 2017 - Turnbull government and Donald Trump highlighted in Human Rights Watch 2017 report. (PDF File, 221 Kb)
- News and Updates - Wednesday, 25 January 2017 - Manus Island detainees riot after death of refugee Faysal Ishak Ahmed. (PDF File, 230 Kb)
News and Updates 2016:
- News and Updates - Monday, 19 December 2016 - Offshore detention report says half of child abuse cases receive inadequate response. (PDF File, 191 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 12 December 2016 - Trump administration could scuttle refugee resettlement deal, White House concedes. (PDF File, 266 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 28 November 2016 - US Republicans demand answers on refugee deal with Malcolm Turnbull. (PDF File, 276 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 21 November 2016 - Federal Government urged to find solution for all asylum seekers on Manus Island, Nauru: UNHCR. (PDF File, 261 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday, 13 November 2016 - Australia poised to announce refugee resettlement deal with United States. (PDF File, 255 Kb)
- News and Updates - Tuesday, 8 November 2016 - Bill Shorten calls refugee ban 'ridiculous' as Coalition attacks Labor for indecision. (PDF File, 268 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday, 30 October 2016 - Manus Island, Nauru asylum seekers to be banned from entering Australia, Malcolm Turnbull says. (PDF File, 244 Kb)
- News and Updates - Wednesday, 19 October 2016 - Australian immigration regime on Nauru an 'open-air prison' and akin to torture, says Amnesty. (PDF File, 278 Kb)
- News and Updates - Tuesday, 4 October 2016 - Asylum seekers are taking desperate actions as bridging visas leave them in limbo. (PDF File, 215 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 26 September 2016 - Australia to take Central American refugees as Malcolm Turnbull pledges to do more at Obama summit. (PDF File, 281 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 19 September 2016 - Missing documents, unskilled staff, poor value for money: Auditor-General lashes immigration detention. (PDF File, 216 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 12 September 2016 - Government told doctors to cut health care costs for refugees in onshore detention centres. (PDF File, 148 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 5 September 2016 - Retired judge, 88, offers 'body swap' with a refugee on Manus or Nauru. (PDF File, 192 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 29 August 2016 - Danish politicians to visit Nauru to study use of offshore detention centres. (PDF File, 223 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday, 21 August 2016 (1) - Australia confirms Manus Island immigration detention centre will close. (PDF File, 255 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday, 21 August 2016 (2) - Nauru says refugee claims fabricated and being used to suit 'political agendas'. (PDF File, 122 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 15 August 2016 (1) - The Guardian view on the Nauru files: Australia's offshore detention centres breed misery. (PDF File, 290 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 15 August 2016 (2) - The Nauru files: Labor to move for parliamentary inquiry into abuse allegations. (PDF File, 216 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 8 August 2016 - Papua New Guinea court orders Australia to present detainee resettlement plan. (PDF File, 205 Kb)
- News and Updates - Wednesday, 27 July 2016 - Ferrovial staff 'risk prosecution' for managing Australian detention camps. (PDF File, 202 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday, 17 July 2016 - Hazara refugees take Immigration Minister Peter Dutton to Federal Court over citizenship application delays. (PDF File, 197 Kb)
- News and Updates - Thursday, 30 June 2016 - Border Force corruption and widespread rorting 'undermining Australia's immigration programs'. (PDF File, 240 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 20 June 2016 - Manus refugee having breakdown was beaten and jailed, say detainees. (PDF File, 167 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 13 June 2016 - Public servants could face court over death of asylum seeker Hamid Khazaei: lawyers. (PDF File, 140 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 6 June 2016 - Manus Island's future: Tensions growing between locals and asylum seekers. (PDF File, 93 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 30 May 2016 - Machete-wielding man who attacked passing motorists spent four years in Woomera, court hears. (PDF File, 190 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 23 May 2016 - Editorial: Australia's disgraceful inhumanity to people seeking asylum. (PDF File, 261 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 16 May 2016 - Bangladeshi refugee dies on Nauru of suspected heart attack. (PDF File, 251 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 9 May 2016 (1) - Asylum seeker policy a 'festering wound that is killing people', says outgoing Melissa Parke. (PDF File, 218 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 9 May 2016 (2) - Refugee fighting for life in Nauru hospital after setting herself alight. (PDF File, 179 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday, 1 May 2016 (1) - Nauru refugee flown to Australia for medical treatment after setting himself on fire. (PDF File, 261 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday, 1 May 2016 (2) - Manus Island detention centre to close, Papua New Guinea prime minister says. (PDF File, 267 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday, 24 April 2016 - Reza Barati death: Two men jailed over 2014 murder of asylum seeker at Manus Island detention centre. (PDF File, 190 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday, 17 April 2016 - Refugee on Nauru convicted of attempted suicide to 'deter' others. (PDF File, 176 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 11 April 2016 (1) - Tom Ballard: I've cried researching my show on refugees. And that's just from reading my own jokes. (PDF File, 137 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 11 April 2016 (2) - 'Now we have a home': Babies bound for Nauru taste freedom in the suburbs. (PDF File, 184 Kb)
- News and Updates - Wednesday, 30 March 2016 - Malcolm Turnbull linking refugee crisis to bombings 'dangerous', Belgian ambassador says. (PDF File, 207 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 21 March 2016 - Thousands join Palm Sunday rally in bid to save asylum seekers from Nauru. (PDF File, 185 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 14 March 2016 (1) - Churches hold 'sanctuary training' for those wanting to shelter asylum seekers. (PDF File, 252 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 14 March 2016 (2) - $55m Cambodia deal that resettled two refugees a 'good outcome', says Dutton. (PDF File, 176 Kb)
- News and Updates - Tuesday, 1 March 2016 - Australia among 30 countries illegally forcing return of refugees, Amnesty says. (PDF File, 198 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 22 February 2016 (1) - Doctors refuse to discharge 'Baby Asha' because of fears for safety on Nauru. (PDF File, 267 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 22 February 2016 (2) - Authorities preparing to remove asylum seeker baby from Lady Cilento Hospital, refugee advocates say. (PDF File, 203 Kb)
- News and Updates - Wednesday, 10 February 2016 - Leaked cabinet document reveals radical citizenship revamp, links migrant program to terrorist attacks. (PDF File, 236 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 8 February 2016 - #LetThemStay: Thousands gather around Australia to protest against asylum seekers being sent back to Nauru. (PDF File, 249 Kb)
- News and Updates - Saturday, 6 February 2016 - Glimmers of hope for detained asylum seekers in the High Court's Nauru decision. (PDF File, 277 Kb)
- News and Updates - Wednesday, 27 January 2016 - Manus Island residents air grievances about hosting Australian detention centre. (PDF File, 257 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 18 January 2016 - Save the Children staff demand Government apology after report finds compensation deserved for Nauru removal. (PDF File, 220 Kb)
- News and Updates - Tuesday, 5 January 2016 - Witnesses in Christmas Island class action exempt from Border Force Act secrecy provisions. (PDF File, 229 Kb)
News and Updates 2015:
- News and Updates - Sunday, 6 December 2015 - Department of Immigration ends 'inappropriate' outings for children in detention run by nuns. (PDF File, 141 Kb)
- News and Updates - Friday, 18 December 2015 - Peter Dutton unconcerned Chinese company Landbridge will know classified movements of Border Force fleet. (PDF File, 252 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 30 November 2015 - UN's Ban Ki-moon urges Australia to rethink refugee policy in extraordinary rebuke. (PDF File, 242 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 23 November 2015 - Suggestion Indonesia may offer island to Australia for processing of asylum seekers. (PDF File, 241 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 16 November 2015 (1) - Christmas Island detention centre: Extra police sent to restore order; detainee says no guards in the facility. (PDF File, 264 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 16 November 2015 (2) - Australia's asylum seeker policies heavily criticised at UN Human Rights Council review. (PDF File, 219 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 9 November 2015 - Christmas Island: Reports of riot following detainee's death; claims guards have left detention centre. (PDF File, 242 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 2 November 2015 (1) - Amnesty says Australian officials who paid people smugglers to turn boats back committed transnational crimes. (PDF File, 262 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 2 November 2015 (2) - Australia ignored three requests from Nauru medical staff to move Abyan. (PDF File, 237 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday, 25 October 2015 (1) - Abyan case: Dutton criticises media coverage of alleged rape victim as 'unhelpful', 'regrettable'. (PDF File, 194 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday, 25 October 2015 (2) - Asylum seekers could be forced into warzones under proposed laws, human rights lawyer David Manne warns. (PDF File, 206 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday, 18 October 2015 (1) - Raped Somali refugee is being deported after claims she denied the abortion she requested. (PDF File, 129 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday, 18 October 2015 (2) - Protesting doctors refuse to say if they would discharge children into detention. (PDF File, 233 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 12 October 2015 (1) - Royal Children's Hospital doctors refuse to return children to detention. (PDF File, 257 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 12 October 2015 (2) - Australia's offshore processing policy to be examined by High Court in Canberra. (PDF File, 253 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday, 4 October 2015 - Asylum seekers say they are under attack as violence erupts in detention centres. (PDF File, 229 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 28 September 2015 - Malcolm Turnbull urged to fix 'weeping sore' of Manus, Nauru asylum seeker detention. (PDF File, 214 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 21 September 2015 - Victoria Police halts joint operations with Border Force after Operation Fortitude stuff-up. (PDF File, 260 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday, 13 September 2015 (1) - Fact and fiction with Prime Minister Tony Abbott's refugee intake numbers. (PDF File, 251 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday, 13 September 2015 (2) - UN cautions against prioritising Christians as Peter Dutton indicates more Syrians may be accepted. (PDF File, 165 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday, 6 September 2015 (1) - International outrage builds: Australia's asylum seeker policies are cruel and unacceptable. (PDF File, 250 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday, 6 September 2015 (2) - 'Hell exists and it's on Nauru': Priest angers Transfield over asylum seeker church signs. (PDF File, 182 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday, 30 August 2015 - More than 150 asylum seekers challenge offshore processing policy in High Court. (PDF File, 231 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday, 23 August 2015 - Woman allegedly raped on Nauru flown to Australia for medical treatment. (PDF File, 169 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday, 15 August 2015 - Former Nauru guards speak out against Wilson Security over spying on S. Hanson-Young cover-ups and abuse. (PDF File, 213 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday, 9 August 2015 - Australia turned back 20 asylum seeker boats with 633 people in past 18 months. (PDF File, 171 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 3 August 2015 - Asylum seeker dies in Yongah Hill immigration detention centre in WA. (PDF File, 250 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 26 July 2015 (1) - Bill Shorten wants Labor to adopt boat turn-backs under new asylum seeker policy. (PDF File, 243 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 26 July 2015 (2) - 'Significant risks' to health of asylum seekers IHMS failure to meet targets. (PDF File, 206 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 20 July 2015 - Senate Inquiry hears damning evidence from Nauru where 253 asylum seekers have self-harmed while concerns mount about the militarisation of the Immigration Department and its Border Force squad. (PDF File, 192 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 13 July 2015 - More reports about detention secrecy, Tony Windsor slams asylum policies, while Oscar winner Eva Orner damns Australia's hardline responses to refugees. (PDF File, 233 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday, 5 July 2015 - Outrage builds about government secrecy laws and criminalisation of immigration whistleblowers. (PDF File, 274 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 29 June 2015 - ALP right factions push hardline policy for National Conference while legal challenge pushes back against indefinite refugee detention laws. (PDF File, 261 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 22 June 2015 (2) - Doctors warn about the Border Force Act that attempts to silence medical whistleblowers by jailing them; more abuse on Nauru and Manus Island. (PDF File, 175 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 22 June 2015 (1) - Abbott government's turn-them-back people smuggler payments in the spotlight: Labor opposes and attacks --- until the ALP stopped attacking. (PDF File, 259 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday, 14 June 2015 (2) - Claims of Australian bribes to Nauruan government and babies flown to Nauru under cover of darkness in the middle of the night. (PDF File, 264 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday, 14 June 2015 (1) - Continues the theme about Prof Gillian Triggs and Nauru while claims arise of Abbott government payments to people smugglers to take refugees back to where they came from. (PDF File, 246 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday, 7 June 2015 - Nauru guards spied on Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, Human Rights chief Gillian Triggs cannot be silenced but keeps speaking out and more reports of failing systems in offshore detention facilities. (PDF File, 340 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday, 31 May 2015 (2) - Extreme border protection policies, as the Australian Border Force Act is announced. (PDF File, 251 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday, 31 May 2015 (1) - The migrant crisis in our area: Rohingya leave Myanmar in droves. (PDF File, 86 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday, 24 May 2015 (2) - Rohingyas on boats trying to find new homes and Nauru Inquiry finds filthy conditions, abuse and rape. (PDF File, 216 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday, 24 May 2015 (1) - Tony Abbott's stubborn 'Nope, Nope, Nope' response to Rohingyas on boats circling the oceans. (PDF File, 216 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday, 17 May 2015 (2) - Australia deports first asylum seekers for permanent settlement in Cambodia; Christmas Island centre to close, and Nauru digs in about restrictions to social media access. (PDF File, 184 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday, 17 May 2015 (1) - Migrant crisis in Europe continues while countries in Asia-Pacific refuse to help thousands of Rohingyas floating around looking for a new home. (PDF File, 137 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 11 May 2015 - More migrant crisis reports from Europe, and Labor makes first statements before its National Conference. (PDF File, 213 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 4 May 2015 - No Facebook: freedom of speech curtailed on Nauru; no luck for Abbott government in Cambodia refugee deportations. (PDF File, 147 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 27 April 2015 - A five-year old leads a class action against the Immigration Minister, while he defends secret on-water returns of 50 Vietnamese asylum seekers. (PDF File, 372 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday, 19 April 2015 - Govt starts promoting deportations from Nauru to Cambodia as a great resettlement option. (PDF File, 320 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday, 12 April 2015 - Julie Bishop off to Iran to seek returns of Iranian asylum seekers, Abbott declares Coalition winners in stopping the boats and petition calls for Royal Commission into Immigration Dept. (PDF File, 223 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 6 April 2015 - More fallout from the Moss review, Iranian hunger striker in Darwin nears death and Gillian Triggs hits back. (PDF File, 262 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday, 30 March 2015 - The Moss Review into alleged sexual assaults and rape on Nauru thows up plenty of dust and dirt. (PDF File, 218 Kb)
- News and Updates - Saturday, 28 February 2015 - The Gillian Triggs attack: vehement slurs and condemnation of the President of the Human Rights Commission Prof Gillian Triggs who released a damning report on the circumstances of children in detention, dominates the Parliament. (PDF File, 166 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday January 18, 2015 - A new Immigration Minister, protests and dire hungerstrikes on Manus Island. (PDF File, 301 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday January 25, 2015 - Manus Island protests and dire hungerstrikes contuinue while control and reprisals by authorities develop. (PDF File, 375 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday February 2, 2015 - Church leaders protest child detention and are arrested; Manus Island hunger strikes wind down. (PDF File, 212 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday February 9, 2015 - A short newsletter about the fallout of Manus protests and hungerstrikes. (PDF File, 111 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday February 15, 2015 (1) - Full roundup of the damning report on children in detention by the Australian Human Rights Commission, followed by damning critique of its President Gillian Triggs by right-wing politicians. (PDF File, 190 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday February 15, 2015 (2) - From 'Martin' the Dawin hungerstriker who approaches death, to revelations of cruelty by guards in Maribyrnong. (PDF File, 177 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday February 23, 2015 - One year since Reza Berati died, Malcolm Turnbull still a threat to Abbott, and a boatload with asylum seekers is delivered to the country they just fled from. (PDF File, 262 Kb)
- News and Updates - Saturday February 28, 2015 - The Attack on Australian Human Rights Commissioner President Professor Gillian Triggs. (PDF File, 162 Kb)
- News and Updates - Tuesday March 3, 2015 - Protests by hundreds of refugees rock Nauru while inquiries attempt to shed light on treatment in detention. (PDF File, 123 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday March 9, 2015 - While the Nauru protests continue, Qantas bans and blacklists passengers opn board scheduled flights protesting forced deportations of asylum seekers and successfully disrupting aircraft departures. (PDF File, 177 Kb)
- News and Updates - Sunday March 15, 2015 - The UN accuses Australia of systematically violating torture convention but Tony Abbott gives them a 'two-fingered salute'. (PDF File, 207 Kb)
- News and Updates - Monday March 23, 2015 - The Moss review provides no evidence that charity staff lied about Nauru assault claims; Yongah Hill protest breaks out. (PDF File, 177 Kb)