Explore a report on the enhanced screening process in relation to the case of LA and LB v the Commonwealth of Australia.

View a report into the arbitrary detention case of Rahimi (deceased) v Commonwealth of Australia, Department of Immigration and Border Protection.

Migration Amendment (Maintaining the Good Order of Immigration Detention Facilities) Bill 2015

The Migration Amendment (Maintaining the Good Order of Immigration Detention Facilities) Bill 2015 (the Bill) would give increased power to ‘authorised officers’ to use force against people (including asylum seekers) in immigration detention facilities.

The Forgotten Children: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention 2014

Summary factsheet
 

July 2015

Transfer of asylum seeker children to Nauru

On 13 August 2012 the Australian Government reintroduced a system of third country processing for asylum seekers who arrive by boat without a valid visa. Under this system these asylum seekers, including children, must be transferred to a third country as soon as is reasonably practicable, unless the Minister for Immigration decides to exclude them from transfer.

As a result of this policy, on 31 May 2015 there were 81 children detained in the Regional Processing Centre (the Centre) in Nauru.

2015

United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment:

‘...by failing to provide adequate detention conditions; end the practice of detention of children; and put a stop to the escalating violence and tension at the Regional Processing Centre, [Australia] has violated the right of the asylum seekers, including children, to be free from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.’[1]

Joint statement by 15 peak health professional bodies:

‘[we] call on the Government to immediately release all children and their families from immigration detention in Australia and Nauru...our organisations represent
a wide range of health professionals who have seen, first-hand, the devastating impact of detention on the health and wellbeing of children and their families.’[1]