Key findings Australia's immigration detention network has been subject to numerous reviews in recent years. This was due to the unprecedented strain on the network arising from increased Irregular Maritime Arrivals and the subsequent unrest and increase in suicide and self-harm incidents in 2010 and 2011. The Department of Immigration and Citizenship (the department) and...

This is an abridged report of an investigation into the handling by the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs of the case of Mrs Aziza Yaukob Agha, an elderly Syrian visitor to Australia from Lebanon. Mrs Agha died shortly after attending a medical examination requested by the department.