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Behrooz v Secretary of the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs, [1] is a decision of the High Court of Australia regarding the detention of asylum seekers in Australia. A 6-1 majority of the Court ( Justice Michael Kirby dissenting) held that even if the conditions of immigration detention are harsh, such ...
Ruddock v Vadarlis (also known as the Tampa case) was an Australian court case decided in the Federal Court of Australia on 18 September 2001. [1] It concerned the actions of the Government of Australia in preventing asylum seekers aboard the Norwegian cargo vessel MV Tampa from entering Australia in late August 2001 (see Tampa affair).
Genuine refugees would be offered asylum in Papua New Guinea, whilst non-genuine asylum seekers would be repatriated, moved to a third country, or remain in indefinite detention. That policy was maintained by the subsequent Coalition government , and as of 2020 indefinite offshore detention at Manus Island remains as Australian Government policy.
Al-Kateb v Godwin, [2] was a decision of the High Court of Australia, which ruled on 6 August 2004 that the indefinite detention of a stateless person was lawful. The case concerned Ahmed Al-Kateb, a Palestinian man born in Kuwait, who moved to Australia in 2000 and applied for a temporary protection visa.
There have been a number of riots and escapes, [23] as well as accusations of human rights abuses from organisations such as refugee advocates, Amnesty International, the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Human Rights Watch, and the United Nations. Journalists are forbidden from entering the detention centres. [24]
The applicant applied to the Refugee Review Tribunal, which was created to provide a merits review of decisions relating to the grant of protection visas to persons claiming to be refugees. [6] The Tribunal affirmed the decision not to grant the applicant a protection visa.
The fast-tracked medical transfers will only apply to the existing cohort of refugees and asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru, a point that Mr Morrison refuses to concede. Human rights advocates hailed the decision, with one calling it a "tipping point as a country", with the weight of public opinion believing that sick people need treatment.
The Children Overboard affair was an Australian political controversy involving public allegations by Howard government ministers in the lead-up to the 2001 federal election, that seafaring asylum seekers had thrown children overboard in a presumed ploy to secure rescue and passage on 7 October 2001.