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Information Relevant to Refugee Law in Australia

Materials on AHRIC Site

• Alternative Detention Model
  

In 1994 a number of peak organisations in Australia endorsed a Draft Charter of Minimum Requirements for Legislation Relating to the Detention of Asylum Seekers. The suggestions regarding asylum seeker's detention are set out here.

• Australian Journal of Human Rights Article

Recent Implementation of the Refugee Convention in Australia and the Law of Accommodations to International Human Rights Treaties. Have We Gone Too Far? by Nick Poynder

• Uniya Focus Series

• Debunking the Myths about Asylum Seekers, by Kerry Murphy
• Arbitrary Detention of Boat People, by Eve Lester
• Who is a refugee? How do we decide?, by Eve Lester

• An Article from the Human Rights Defender Journal

Migration Law, Policy and Practice, An Interview by Montserrat Gorina, September 1996

Materials from other sites

• Alternative Law Journal

An Article on Refugee Law in Australia - and its impact on women

Separating mothers and children: Australia's gendered immigration policy by Dominique Hansen and Marg Le Sueur
Australia's current immigration law and policy appears to be non-discriminatory at first glance. Its effect, however, is gendered and mothers and children are often discriminated against and separated from their children. This article examines the difficulties faced by the 'unlawful mother' with an Australian citizen child and the plight of women refugees. (Written in October 1996, and only current as of that date.)

An Early Article on the conduct of A v. Australia

Marooned in Port Hedland by Nick Poynder
The case of the boat people. The UN Human Rights Committee in practice. Nick Poynder was Co-ordinator of the Refugee and Advice Casework Service in Sydney, at the time of writing. (Written in 1993, and only current as of that date.)

• Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs

Fact Sheets

An Index of fact sheets on migration and settlement issues, including information on Boat People

• Parliamentary Research Information

Migration Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 1996

A Parliamentary Research Service Bills Digest regarding conditions of detention, by Kirsty Magarey (Law and Public Administration Group).

Asian Immigration

A Parliamentary Research Service Current Issues Brief, by Adrienne Millbank (Social Policy Group)

• United Nations Information

UN Commission On Human Rights

Fifty-third session, Item 8 of the provisional agenda
Question Of The Human Rights Of All Persons Subjected To Any Form Of Detention Or Imprisonment

Refugee Case Law

From the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees site.

• Links to further Information

Refugee And Asylum Instruments And Documents

From the University of Minnesota Human Rights Library

Search AustLII for cases relevant to the issues involved in A v. Australia