Australia and Vietnam further cooperation to stamp out people smuggling
Monday, 12 December 2016
A new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Department of Immigration and Border Protection and Vietnam's Ministry of Public Security will...
Australia-Vietnam 2016 Human Rights Dialogue: Civil Society Consultation
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Government quiet over reports Navy seeking to return Vietnamese asylum seekers
Updated 17 Apr 2015, 6:20pm
The Federal Government is refusing to confirm reports that the Navy is attempting to return a large group of asylum...
Tony Abbott tight-lipped on suspected Vietnamese asylum seeker boat
Prime Minister Tony Abbott. Photo: Andrew Meares
Nicole Hasham
July 21 2015
Prime Minister Tony Abbott is refusing to say how a suspected boat of Vietnamese asylum...
Asylum seekers arrive in WA’s north-west
Updated 20 Jul 2013, 6:52pm
Locals who watched 17 asylum seekers being transferred to the mainland at Dampier in WA's north-west on Friday night say...
Vietnamese asylum seekers secretly held at sea for more than a month, commander tells...
HMAS Choules arrives in Sydney
PHOTO: The asylum seekers were sent back to Vietnam on board HMAS Choules (Royal Australian Navy: Shane Cameron)
By political reporter...
Fate of Vietnamese Asylum Seeker Children Hangs in the Balance
A group of Vietnamese asylum seekers, including 12 children, have tried to reach Australia by boat for the second time, writes Shira Sebban, 16...
Turned back by Australia, Vietnamese recognised as refugees in Indonesia
JUNE 11 2017
Shira Sebban
Ever since they were forcibly returned by Australia to Vietnam two years ago, mother-of-four Tran Thi Thanh Loan and mother-of-three Tran...
UNICEF statement on Australia and Vietnam signing MOU to return Vietnamese asylum seekers
Statement attributable to Amy Lamoin, Head of Policy and Advocacy, UNICEF Australia
SYDNEY, 13 December 2016 - UNICEF Australia notes the announcement yesterday that a...
Suspected asylum seeker vessel heading for Dampier off WA’s North West coast
Updated 20 Jul 2015, 5:39pm
A suspected asylum seeker boat has been spotted off Dampier in Western Australia's North West region.
A Federal Government source has...