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Treatment of asylum seekers in Thailand

I’ve written recently about the Australian government recent efforts to enlist further support from countries to our north in stifling the activities of people smugglers.
Reports continue to appear of dreadful conditions and treatment of refugees and asylum seekers in those same countries, such as Malaysia and Thailand.
Another recent example, reported in the Bangkok-based newspaper, The [...]

World Refugee Day: One refugee's story

Last weekend saw a festival held in Brisbane to mark World Refugee Day.  Over the last 30 years, south-east Queensland has seen a big increase in the range of ethnic communities with a refugee background. A growing number are from our region in South-East Asia. One of the newest emerging communities in Brisbane is the [...]

Why it matters how Australia treats asylum seekers

Many people continue to assert that asylum seekers who arrive in Australia by boat should be rejected because they (allegedly) pass through other countries where they are supposedly safe.  See some of the public comments made in response to this recent piece on the ABC website by Rachel Ball from the Human Rights Law Resource Centre [...]