Labor has been reported to the United Nations Committee Against Torture over its decision to 鈥渟uspend鈥 its human rights act to detain children in adult watch houses.聽Sonia Hickey reports.
United Nations Committee Against Torture (CAT)
This year's聽Closing the Gap report provides more damning evidence of the聽colonialist approach to First Nations people. Isaac Nellist reports.
Eighty people rallied in Dandenong, an outer Melbourne suburb, on February 11 against the planned deportation of Santharuban, a former member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) who sought asylum in Australia after the defeat of the LTTE in 2009.
The LTTE fought for an independent Tamil homeland in the north and east of the island of Sri Lanka. Former members of the movement continue to be "disappeared, detained, tortured, and harassed by the Sri Lankan security forces", according to a statement by the Tamil Refugee Council (TRC), which organised the rally.