Vietnamese ‘Boat People’ Attempt to Reach Australia a Second Time
2017-02-08
Three Vietnamese families returned by Australian authorities last year after they tried to illegally migrate there have fled Vietnam a second time by boat...
We’re a Disparate Group of Australians Doing the Work Our Government Won’t
When I heard that a woman who attempted to seek asylum in Australia but had her boat returned to Vietnam was about to be...
Abbott government under fire for secret bid to hand back asylum seekers to Vietnam
The HMAS Choules (right) was close to the southern port city of Vung Tau. Photo: Kate Geraghty
April 17 2015
Heath Aston
Vietnamese Australians and human rights activists...
Vietnamese asylum seeker returned by Australia says ‘a bullet would be better’
Vietnamese asylum seeker Tran Thi Lua stands together with her three children.
PHOTO: Vietnamese asylum seeker Tran Thi Lua and her three children. (Supplied:...
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...
Saving the World, One Life at a Time
By Shira Sebban on October 15, 2016 Asylum Seekers
Social media may have changed the world, but it’s also made campaigning to make at least one...
Media Release: JRS deeply concerned over return of 46 Vietnamese asylum seekers
HMAS Choules intercepted and returned 46 Vietnamese asylum seekers who had been found in waters north of Australia.
21 April 2015
Jesuit Refugee Service Australia (JRS)...
UN informed of Australia’s secretive return of Vietnamese asylum seekers
"Australia should never return a refugee to persecution": Daniel Webb of the Human Rights Law Centre. April 21, 2015
The Australian Government has secretly returned 46...
Australia-Vietnam 2016 Human Rights Dialogue: Civil Society Consultation
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Suspected asylum seeker boat ‘unlikely to dock’ after interception, WA water police say
PHOTO: The suspected asylum seeker boat near a cargo ship off Dampier on Monday (ABC TV)
By Charlotte Hamlyn
Updated 21 Jul 2015, 1:30pm
Police assisting in...