Refugees
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What happened to Hamed, the refugee who died on Manus Island this week?
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Last week a man Eric Tlozek met while covering the situation on Manus Island was found dead, in what police say looks to have been a suicide. In recent times he had been increasingly erratic and frightening, but he wasn't always this way.
Topics: refugees, immigration, community-and-society, government-and-politics, death, papua-new-guinea
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Vietnamese farmers in Australia work hard to succeed Audio Feature
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Families of Vietnamese heritage show remarkable resilience in building farming and the fruit and vegetable businesses in the 40 years since they fled war-torn Vietnam.
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Topics: refugees, sustainable-and-alternative-farming, food-and-beverage, food-and-cooking, agricultural-prices, sydney-2000, darwin-0800
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Topics: refugees, sustainable-and-alternative-farming, food-and-beverage, food-and-cooking, agricultural-prices, sydney-2000, darwin-0800
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Toan Van Tran Vietnamese wholesaler image
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Topics: refugees, sustainable-and-alternative-farming, food-and-beverage, food-and-cooking, agricultural-prices, sydney-2000, darwin-0800
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Vietnamese farmers in Australia image
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Topics: refugees, sustainable-and-alternative-farming, food-and-beverage, food-and-cooking, agricultural-prices, sydney-2000, darwin-0800
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Vinh Nguyen Vietnamese wholesaler image
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Topics: refugees, sustainable-and-alternative-farming, food-and-beverage, food-and-cooking, agricultural-prices, sydney-2000, darwin-0800
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Vietnamese farmers in Australia work hard to succeed
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Families of Vietnamese heritage show remarkable resilience in building farming and fruit and vegetable businesses in the 40 years since they fled war-torn Vietnam.
Topics: refugees, sustainable-and-alternative-farming, food-and-beverage, food-and-cooking, agricultural-prices, kenthurst-2156, darwin-0800, vietnam, sydney-2000
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Theresa Nguyen Vietnamese Wholesaler image
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Topics: refugees, sustainable-and-alternative-farming, food-and-beverage, food-and-cooking, agricultural-prices, sydney-2000, darwin-0800
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Liberal MP calls for asylum seekers to be resettled in Australia
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Federal Government backbencher Russell Broadbent wants asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru who are not accepted by the United States to be resettled in Australia.
Topics: refugees, immigration, federal-parliament, government-and-politics, federal-government, australia
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Russell Broadbent calls 'enough' on Manus and Nauru detention Video
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Liberal MP Russell Broadbent has told Parliament Australia needs to bring refugees and asylum seekers in offshore immigration detention to Australia if they are not resettled in America.
Topics: refugees, federal-parliament, australia
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Family of dead refugee want investigation done in Australia
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The family of an Iranian refugee who died on Manus Island fears the Australian Government could avoid responsibility for his death, their lawyer says, because it is being investigated in Papua New Guinea.
Topics: community-and-society, immigration, refugees, government-and-politics, federal-government, papua-new-guinea
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US Homeland Security staff return to Manus Island
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Staff from the United States Department of Homeland Security return to Manus Island to interview refugees about resettlement in the US.
Topics: refugees, world-politics, donald-trump, papua-new-guinea, australia, united-states
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Threats from Libyan coastguard see asylum seeker rescues called off
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Aid agencies Save The Children and Sea Eye join Medicines sans Frontieres in halting rescue operations in the Mediterranean following threats from the Libyan coastguard.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, refugees, world-politics, libyan-arab-jamahiriya, italy
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Government to ease secrecy rules for detention centre workers
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The Federal Government moves to relax secrecy rules that made it illegal for detention centre workers to speak out against abuse or neglect, in what the Greens describe as a "humiliating backdown".
Topics: federal-government, refugees, government-and-politics, australia
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'The cold, hard, brutal side of conflict': Six politicians, one bus and a few tears
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What happens when six cross-party politicians spend a week together on a mini-bus in the shadow of war? Read about the profound impact the ongoing humanitarian refugee crisis had on our MPs when they were sent a world away from the halls of Parliament House.
Topics: government-and-politics, refugees, community-and-society, unrest-conflict-and-war, syrian-arab-republic, jordan, lebanon, australia
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Fifty-five migrants feared dead in second drowning incident off Yemen: UN
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Some 180 Ethiopian and Somali are forced into rough seas off Yemen by smugglers, with 55 of them are presumed to have drowned, the UN migration agency says.
Topics: refugees, death, world-politics, unrest-conflict-and-war, yemen
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Smugglers 'deliberately drowned' teenage African migrants off Yemen coast
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The UN says approximately 50 teenage Somali and Ethiopian migrants were "deliberately drowned" by a smuggler who forced passengers into the sea off Yemen's coast.
Topics: immigration, refugees, yemen
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Manus Island asylum seeker death 'not suspicious', police say
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Manus Island police say the death of an Iranian refugee does not appear to be suspicious, but friends and fellow asylum seekers are not convinced.
Topics: refugees, immigration, death, community-and-society, papua-new-guinea, pacific, australia
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'An avoidable tragedy': Asylum seeker found dead on Manus Island
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Amnesty International is calling for an independent and impartial review into the death of an Iranian asylum seeker on Manus Island as police investigate the circumstances of the man's death.
Topics: refugees, immigration, death, government-and-politics, federal-government, papua-new-guinea, pacific, australia
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Footage shows neighbours trying to stop a fight Video
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Footage shows neighbours trying to stop a fight
Topics: crime, refugees, law-crime-and-justice, nauru
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Nauru security guard charged, sacked after alleged refugee attack
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A Nauruan security guard is charged after allegedly assaulting a refugee at the settlement camp he was employed to protect.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, refugees, nauru, pacific
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Asylum seekers refuse to leave Manus Island compound after days of protests
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Asylum seekers in the Manus Island detention centre are confronting guards and police who are trying to lock gates and clear one of the accommodation compounds.
Topics: refugees, immigration, papua-new-guinea
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PM defends refugee deal after criticism that Trump transcript exposes 'gaping holes'
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Malcolm Turnbull rejects accusations that the US refugee deal is a charade, after a transcript of his combative January phone call with US President Donald Trump was leaked.
Topics: donald-trump, turnbull-malcolm, world-politics, foreign-affairs, government-and-politics, refugees, australia
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