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Australia’s immigration regime is violent and cruel. Labor’s rushed bills will devastate traumatised people

Many families have endured years of separation while in prison camps – and children are the main victims

The Guardian - AU

Archibald prize 2024: Marcia Langton portrait wins people’s choice award

Angus McDonald wins people’s choice category for second time, after his 2020 portrait of human rights campaigner Behrouz Boochani

The Guardian - AU

Behrouz Boochani: ‘I was not a victim. I was a fighter’

In a bohemian corner of Wellington, the former Manus Island detainee has found his way through writing and walking – despite, he insists, being properly lazy

The Guardian - AU

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The Australian detention system was established to destroy us, but we refugees are still here

We were banished to Manus and Nauru, out of sight and out of mind. We are calling for a royal commission because the Australian public deserves the truth

The Guardian - AU

Boochani accuses Labor and Coalition of ‘competition of cruelty’

Behrouz Boochani, who spent six years imprisoned in an offshore camp, has called for a royal commission into immigrant detention.

Crikey

The pain for Labor on immigration detention is not over – especially if the Coalition and Greens team up

While their motivations are different, the opposition parties have the numbers to force an inquiry – and prolong the fallout from the high court decision

The Guardian - AU

Australia brings its last refugee on the Pacific island of Nauru to its mainland

Australia's government, which announced earlier this month that it would be moving refugees off of Nauru, confirmed to media that it will pay $350 million annually to keep the Nauru facility open.

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Morning Mail: Supermarkets profiteering claim, jobs growth welcomed, the battle for Bakhmut

Big supermarkets increased margins on food through the pandemic and cost-of-living crisis; Labor celebrating strong jobs growth; Ukraine rejects Russian claims to have captured Bakhmut

The Guardian - AU

Behrouz Boochani, the refugee writer who exposed the cruelty of Australia’s island jail

One inmate became the voice of the men locked up on Manus. Behrouz Boochani and Ben Doherty look back at the risks he took to get this story to the world

The Guardian - AU

Home free remains a dream for refugees under Labor’s ‘inhumane’ policy

Behrouz Boochani torched the Albanese government’s treatment of asylum seekers, and Crikey readers feed that flame.

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Former detainee and advocate Behrouz Boochani brings new life to an ancient play

The producers of a new adaptation of the Greek tragedy Women of Troy say the thousands-of-years-old play could have been written for a contemporary audience.

ABC News

Refugees on Australian detention island sew lips shut in protest

Mohammad Shofiqul Islam and Mohammad Kaium have been held on the remote Pacific island of Nauru for nearly 10 years.

Al Jazeera

How Behrouz Boochani is changing the narrative on refugees

Kurdish-Iranian writer and author spent six years in detention on Manus Island after trying to get to Australia by boat.

Al Jazeera

Labor’s day of ‘exquisite ironies’, hypocrisy and disappointment

The Albanese government’s election promised a new way of politics, but its hardened stance on immigration has raised the ire of critics.

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Behrouz Boochani calls for asylum seeker royal commission from inside Parliament House

In defiance of the former government's vow that he would never set foot on Australia soil, refugee and journalist Behrouz Boochani calls for a royal commission into immigration detention, as he stands in Parliament House.

The Canberra Times

Senate to vote on Home Affairs Nauru admin blunder

Senate motion to extend Nauru for offshore processing

The Guardian - AU

David Pocock blasts Albanese government as it reauthorises Nauru offshore immigration detention

Labor also seeks to overturn court decision that forced it to release 100 people from onshore detention despite character concerns

AAP

Manus Island refugee's blunt put down for Dutton

A refugee who spent years locked up in an offshore detention centre has urged the Albanese government to set up a royal commission.

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Labor government called out on key election commitments on refugees and housing on Q+A

Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones and the government are accused of political grandstanding over their election commitment on refugee visas, during a fiery Q+A.

Newcastle Herald

'In a better world I should speak': Behrouz Boochani refused just watching parliament

Behrouz Boochani described it as "incredible" he made it to Canberra.

The Guardian - AU

Behrouz Boochani in Australia: ‘Some of those politicians who barred me are gone. But I am here’

The Kurdish Iranian refugee was always confident he would prove Peter Dutton’s declaration that he ‘wouldn’t be permitted to come to Australia’ wrong

The Conversation

Like Primo Levi at Auschwitz, Behrouz Boochani testifies for the people who lived and died in a prison camp

This is an edited extract from Freedom, Only Freedom: The Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani.

Crikey

Laying down the anti-protest laws

A NSW minister has backed the anti-protest laws that has put his niece, Deanna ‘Violet’ Coco, in jail for at least eight months, and Kurdish refugee and writer Behrouz Boochani is back in Australia.

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Iran – a revolution in the making

What's happening in Iran is a revolution in the making. It might not happen suddenly, write Behrouz Boochani and Amir Ahmadi Arian, but the fires of uprising have been lit

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