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Refugee stories

Perth-based filmmakers explore the lives of refugees and asylum seekers living in Western Australia, made in partnership with The Centre for Asylum Seekers, Refugees and Detainees

11 April 2024

  • Minister for immigration Andrew Giles at a press conference at Parliament House

    Deportation bill breaches Labor’s national platform, ALP pro-refugee group says

    ‘Social panics with strong racist goals can create political imperatives,’ submission to Senate inquiry warns

6 July 2023

  • 230706 Medevac Hotel thumbnail

    The hotel that lacks ‘ordinary human decency’

    It’s shocking what they can get away with

27 May 2023

  • Unmani Umani, 70, lives in the tiny Victorian town of Wal Wal and is volunteering with Rural Australians for Refugees to try to bring an Afghani family to Australia.

    ‘I just have you’: the rural Australians helping Afghan asylum seekers find refuge

    A musician living in Wal Wal, population 27, in the Wimmera is offering hope to a displaced family of six from Afghanistan

15 August 2022

  • Taliban stand guard in front of the the Sakhi Shah-e Mardan Shrine and mosque in Kabul. The shrine is visited mainly by Hazaras.

    The Albanese government must save those left behind in the Taliban’s Afghanistan

    Sitarah Mohammadi and Sajjad Askary
    Hazaras, women and other minorities are increasingly under threat of violence and persecution since the Taliban takeover of Kabul

2 April 2022

  • Peter Hannam's electric vehicle in the high country between Cooma and Albury at sunset

    Leading the charge: road-testing Australia’s EV stations on a 2,800km round trip – Guardian Australia Reads podcast

    What are the pleasures and pitfalls of driving an electric car from Sydney to Melbourne and back? Guardian Australia’s economics correspondent Peter Hannam goes for a test drive

31 March 2022

  • Mostafa ‘Moz’ Azimitabar with his entry into the 2022 Archibald Prize

    Painted with coffee and toothbrushes: Kurdish refugees enter the Archibald prize

    Mostafa Azimitabar and Farhad Bandesh spent eight years in detention after fleeing war-torn homelands. Now they are vying for a $100,000 prize

28 March 2022

  • The Then minister for immigration and border protection, Scott Morrison in 2013

    Why it took Australia nine years to accept New Zealand’s refugee deal

    Guardian reporter Ben Doherty and author Behrouz Boochani discuss the human toll exacted through Australia’s harsh asylum seeker policies

5 February 2022

  • Ali Agshar Hussaini

    Ali Agshar Hussaini: Australian wrestling champ who can’t compete for Australia

    National champion in 57kg freestyle wrestling and bricklaying Hazara refugee’s visa status means he cannot move forward – in sport, or beyond

12 December 2021

  • A view of the Christmas Island Immigration Detention Centre, looking through a wire fence

    Asylum seekers, families allegedly threatened after Australian immigration data breach

    A compensation claim is being heard after the Department of Immigration and Border Protection published personal information about almost 10,000 people on its website, which was accessed globally

11 December 2021

  • Silhouette of woman with hand on window

    ‘I was squatting’: why asylum seekers so often struggle to find secure housing

    Homelessness or threats of eviction are common, a new report has found, while the insecurity can lead some into coercive sexual relationships

25 November 2021

  • Children at the Nauru detention centre

    Brisbane company worth just $8 when awarded $385m Nauru offshore processing contract

    Since 2017 the contract – originally for $385m – has been amended seven times without competitive tender

16 October 2021

  • Ali Bouazar, or ‘Floki’ the street barber. He’s a barber who works full-time at a busy shop in Darch in Perth Western Australia. On Friday afternoons once a month he takes time off and heads to the city to give free haircuts to the homeless.

    Meet Floki, the street barber of Perth: ‘It’s not just about the haircut’

    Once a month on Fridays, Ali ‘Floki’ Bouazar takes time off work to hit the streets of Perth, providing free haircuts to those in need

25 August 2021

  • Refugee supporters gather for a Compassion not Detention rally outside the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, in June

    Australia’s Tamil community mourns suicide of 38-year-old refugee

    Community leaders say Koneshwaran Krishnapillai feared deportation after the recent high-profile case involving the Murugappan family from Biloela

19 July 2021

  • Loghman Sawari holds a sign that reads: 'let us live 8 years too long'

    ‘Torturous’: Australian family fights to free refugee held for eight years without charge

    Loghman Sawari was 17 when he was placed in a men-only centre on Manus Island. Nearly a decade on, and another child refugee wants to know why he’s still in detention

16 July 2021

  • Loghaman Sawari

    Three countries, eight years: one refugee’s nightmare odyssey through Australia’s detention system

    From Christmas Island, to Manus, Port Moresby, Fiji and now Brisbane, 25-year-old Loghman Sawari still waits for the one thing he craves: freedom

3 July 2021

  • Rafique Mohammed, a former refugee and the manager of QR The Brave Football Club

    Rohingya United: the football team bringing together refugees

    The recently-formed Q-League is a far cry from the camps where some of its players learnt to play using scrunched up plastic bags instead of balls

29 June 2021

  • Footballer and refugee Hakeem al-Araibi

    Footballer Hakeem al-Araibi sues Australian government over Thai prison detention

    The footballer wrongfully detained in a Thai prison is suing the Australian government for negligence and breach of duty of care

16 April 2021

  • Sisonke Msimang, host of the podcast Temporary

    Episode 8: Left behind in a global pandemic

    During the pandemic, the federal government said we were ‘all in this together’ – but what about the refugees in Temporary?

16 December 2020

  • Iranian born Yehye is one of the first people in the legacy caseload to have his temporary protection visa expire.

    Stuck in an endless loop

    A father, who arrived by boat, lives in anxious uncertainty, enduring an opaque reapplication process that could result in his being torn away from his family

9 December 2020

  • Asylum seeker timeline illustration and composite

    Interactive timeline: what happened to every person caught up in Australia's offshore processing regime

    Guardian Australia has trawled through government data to compile the most complete picture yet of the fate of the asylum seekers who arrived by boat since 2013
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