Opinion
A bill to allow asylum seekers on Nauru and Manus Island to be transferred to Australia for medical and psychiatric treatment has passed both Houses. Nicholas Procter and Mary Anne Kenny explain how it will work.
Politics
Labor looks set to avoid a bruising stoush on refugee policy at the party’s national conference, with key factional players locking in behind offshore processing and boat turnbacks.
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Fewer than 40 children remain in detention on Nauru following the removal of asylum-seeker families to capital cities across Australia.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison is facing pressure from within his own government to remove children in detention from Nauru.
SA Labor leader Peter Malinauskas says the indefinite detention of asylum-seekers on Nauru is a “disgrace” and has promised to push for change to the ALP’s policy at the party’s national conference in Adelaide later this year.
The majority of asylum seekers and refugees living in Adelaide believe their current housing situation is harming their mental health and wellbeing, new research reveals.
