Tag: Alex Reilly - article author
Explainer: the medevac repeal and what it means for asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru
Jacqui Lambie has made a secret deal with the Coalition government
to secure the repeal of medevac. Image: AAP/Lukas Coch
After much negotiation, the...
Peter Dutton is whipping up fear on the medevac law, but it defies logic and compassion
The medevac law was passed to streamline the process for emergency
medical evacuation of refugees from Manus Island and Nauru. Thirty-one people
have been...
Cruel, and no deterrent: why Australia’s policy on asylum seekers must change
Iranian Kurdish poet Behrouz Boochani, a long term detainee on
on Manus, wrote about the cruelty he witnessed in detention in his...