The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention is examining how the country deprives people of their liberty, from prisons to offshore detention facilities.

Experts across the refugee sector urge the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to use its visit to Australia, starting ...

A group of around 900 asylum seekers who came to Australia by boat nearly 13 years ago remain stuck in visa limbo, fighting ...

The National Socialist Network, which organised the rally on 8 November, is a well-known neo-Nazi group in Australia. Demonstrators repeatedly chanted "blood and honour", a slogan associated with the ...

Australian authorities detained a South African man and revoked his visa after he joined a neo-Nazi group’s anti-Jewish lobby ...

Human rights lawyers have applied to intervene in the High Court case of a man facing deportation to Nauru, arguing the government should be barred from deporting people to places where they face ...

There are several predictable cycles in Australian public opinion, and one of them is the moral panic surrounding immigration ...

A South African man who took part in a neo-Nazi rally outside NSW parliament has been deported weeks after his visa was ...

Novak Djokovic may not get a chance to defend his Australian Open title. According to The Associated Press, Djokovic is confined to an "immigration detention" hotel in Australia. Djokovic was denied ...

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As more people await hearings behind bars and with a shortage of immigration judges, legal cases take more work and time.