Asylum seekers
Alternative labels
Refugee status determination
Asylum seekers policy
Fact sheet
Fact Check: Why Peter Dutton's claims on the Coalition's record on refugees get mixed verdicts
Immigration and Border Protection Minister Peter Dutton claims that he moved every child out of detention, brought record numbers of refugees in by plane and that nobody drowned at sea under Operation Sovereign Borders.
Briefing paper
Australia’s offshore processing regime
Offshore processing (referred to by the Australian Government as “regional processing”) is the term used to describe the arrangements by which Australia sends people seeking asylum who arrive by boat to either Nauru or on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea (PNG), where their refugee claims are determined. Australia is the only country in the...
Report
Protection denied, abuse condoned: women on Nauru at risk
This report draws together the evidence from multiple reports on the resettlement policy as well as the intimate stories of women living in fear on Nauru, where neither the local police nor some of the commercial agencies charged with protecting them have shown much desire to do so.
Report
Working it out
This review examines the current evidence base to explore the strengths, opportunities and challenges facing newly arrived refugees and temporary protection visa holders in the Australian labour market.
Policy
LGBTIQ asylum seekers
On an international level, Australia performs well regards to its treatment of its LGBTIQ citizens. This standard of treatment does not, however, extend to LGBTIQ asylum seekers in Australia’s care. They routinely face humiliating and unnecessary scrutiny, are outed in front of fellow asylum seekers and are sent into regions where same-sex sexual activity is...