On 28 June 2012, the Prime Minister (Julia Gillard) and the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship (Chris Bowen) announced that the Government had invited Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston AC AFC (Ret’d), the former chief of Australia’s defence force, to lead an expert panel to provide a report on the best way forward for Australia...

Giving young people the opportunity to share their views and experiences of detention and the youth justice system, this survey considers matters that affect their safety and wellbeing.

This guide presents humane and cost effective mechanisms to prevent the unnecessary and damaging detention of refugees and aims to ensure that detention is only ever used as a last resort. Governments around the world are increasingly using detention as a migration management tool, with refugees, asylum seekers and migrants detained for prolonged periods. However...

Compassion as a motivator for action is overrated, writes Klaus Neumann in Inside Story, but Go Back to Where You Came from is a reminder that it’s not a bad starting point.

The Australian Human Rights Commission visited the immigration detention facilities at Villawood from 21 to 25 February 2011. This report contains a summary of the key observations and concerns arising from the Commission’s visit. It focuses on conditions as they were at that time.