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Outspoken American performer denied entry to Australian refugee centre after detainees attempt self-mutilation and suicide.

Immigration and Border Protection Minister Scott Morrison this week announced that most children in immigration detention camps who are under the age of ten, and their families, will be released into the Australian society by the end of this year.

Responding to the humanitarian crisis in Iraq, Australia is opening its immigration gates to persecuted Iraqi nationals fearing for their lives.

As Nauru confirms that Angelina Jolie, actress and UN delegate, has received an invitation to visit asylum seekers on the island, Australia's immigration minister Scott Morrison denies concerns over her proposed trip.

The father of a 3-year-old Sri Lankan girl has begged with immigration control’s Scott Morrison for information about the 'missing' boat of asylum seekers on which his daughter is believed to be.

A group of asylum seekers being held on an Australian vessel at sea will not be returned to their native Sri Lanka without 72 hours' notice.

A boat carrying 41 asylum seekers was escorted back to Sri Lanka after it was intercepted by Australian border control, infuriating human rights activists who fear for the refugees’ safety in their home country.

The federal police commissioner has been asked to investigate whether border protection personnel committed a criminal offence during an asylum boat turn-back.

Thousands of protesters have marched through the Sydney CBD to mark Palm Sunday, calling for an end to mandatory detention of asylum seekers.

BBC radio presenter suggests Australia is ‘effectively operating a sort of Guantanamo Bay ... only in some ways even worse’

American actor Matt Damon has entered into Australia's asylum seeker debate while visiting Sydney to promote his new film Elysium.

Papua New Guinea wasn't seeking economic gain when it agreed to open a processing centre for asylum seekers trying to get into Australia, Prime Minister Peter O'Neill says.

Less than a week since Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced his PNG solution the first asylum seekers have arrived on Manus Island for processing.

The Nauru “tent city” solution proposed by the Coalition has been blighted by claims that the visit to the island by Shadow Immigration Minister Scott Morrison and a News Corp journalist were sponsored by a private company who may profit from the policy.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's recently revealed reforms to asylum seeker policy would send gay refugees to Papua New Guinea despite the country's strict laws against homosexuality.

Four people died yesterday when a boat carrying 150 asylum seekers capsized off the coast of Christmas Island.