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Australia to maintain immigration at 190,000 in 2013/14

10:24 17/05/2013
Australian immigration minister Brendan O'Connor has announced that Australia will keep its immigration target for 2013/14 at 190,000; the same number as for the previous year. Of these 128,500...

Bowen defends Australia's 'no advantage' policy on asylum seekers

15:35 03/12/2012
The Australian immigration minister Chris Bowen has defended the Australian government's policies on the treatment of asylum seekers. He told MPs on the left wing of the Australian Labor Party, of...

Nauru asylum seekers end hunger strikes against Australian government

12:31 16/11/2012
The Age newspaper reports that most of the hunger strikers on Nauru have ended their protests. Some reports last week suggested that 300 of the 350 inmates then being held in the offshore processing...

Nauru detention centre 'a termite infested ruin'

13:02 23/08/2012
Fact-finding missions by the Australian Defence Force (ADF) have shown that the asylum seeker detention centres on Nauru and Manus, Papua New Guinea, are in poor states of repair. Last week the...