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	Australia: The impact of indefinite detention: the case to change Australia's mandatory detention regime
		Australia's detention policy also compromises the ability of refugees to seek and enjoy asylum and is in breach of Article 31(1) of the Refugee Convention, which prohibits the imposition of penalties on refugees on account of their illegal entry or presence in the territory of a state party(61).
		The most egregious examples of indefinite detention in the context of immigration detention in Australia are those where a person has been finally determined not to have a claim to protection under the Refugee Convention, is not awaiting a decision from the Minister for Immigration in exercise of her discretionary powers under s.
		Detention of asylum-seekers … as part of a policy to deter future asylum-seekers, or to dissuade those who have commenced their claims from pursuing them, is contrary to the norms of refugee law.
	www.amnestyusa.org /news/document.do?id=38F841F03015498B80257038004F3982 (19221 words)

	Villawood Immigration Detention Centre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Villawood Immigration Detention Centre (IDC) is an Australian immigration detention facility located in the suburb of Villawood in Sydney, Australia.
		The purpose of the facility, according to The Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, is to "mainly accommodate over-stayers, people in breach of their visa conditions, or people refused entry at Australia's international airports”.
		Detainees and refugee advocates have often complained that, while detention centre facilities look good on paper, in practice they are often not appropriate, and deceive the Australian public into believing that Australian immigration detention facilities are nice places in which to live.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Villawood_Immigration_Detention_Centre (343 words)

	Australia: The impact of indefinite detention: the case to change Australia's mandatory detention regime - Amnesty ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Australia’s detention policy also compromises the ability of refugees to seek and enjoy asylum and is in breach of Article 31(1) of the Refugee Convention, which prohibits the imposition of penalties on refugees on account of their illegal entry or presence in the territory of a state party(61).
		The most egregious examples of indefinite detention in the context of immigration detention in Australia are those where a person has been finally determined not to have a claim to protection under the Refugee Convention, is not awaiting a decision from the Minister for Immigration in exercise of her discretionary powers under s.
		Detention of asylum-seekers … as part of a policy to deter future asylum-seekers, or to dissuade those who have commenced their claims from pursuing them, is contrary to the norms of refugee law.
	web.amnesty.org /library/index/engasa120012005 (18114 words)

	Federal Court of Australia - information for practitioners
		Villawood Immigration Detention Centre, or otherwise held at a remand centre, such as Long Bay or Silverwater, the registry does not make arrangements to have that party brought to Court.
		Where the party in detention is represented, in the absence of agreement between the parties' representatives or an order or direction of the Court to the contrary, the party will not be brought to the Court as a matter of course other than for the final hearing.
		If a party is in immigration detention at a remand centre the Minister's solicitors will notify the Associate to the Docket Judge or Federal Magistrate that that party is in such detention and that no order is required to be made by a Judge or Federal Magistrate of the Court for the applicant's attendance.
	www.fedcourt.gov.au /how/practicenotices_nsw20.html (982 words)

	Police investigate riot at Villawood. 28/11/2006. ABC News Online
		Villawood: Police were called in to quell the trouble (file photo).
		Police were called in to quell the trouble, which saw detainees clash with detention centre guards.
		The trouble flared at around 9.30pm AEDT while detention centre guards were attempting to transfer around seven detainees from a low to high security compound.
	www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200611/s1798726.htm (269 words)

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		Immigration officers who have responsibility for the location and, where appropriate, the detention of unlawful non‑citizens exercise compliance and enforcement functions.
		An immigration officer may only use such reasonable force as is necessary for the exercise of his or her powers under the federal Migration Act 1958.
		Immigration officers, whether based in Australia or overseas and who conduct interviews with possible victims of torture and trauma, receive training on matters which include cross-cultural sensitivity and advice on identifying possible victims of torture and trauma for referral to appropriate counselling and support services.
	www.hri.ca /fortherecord2000/documentation/tbodies/Cat-c-25-add11.htm (11276 words)

	resist the neo-con empire - Human Rights in Australia: Another refugee's detention horror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The security manager from the detention centre (Eddie Peseta) ordered one of his officers to start filming because they were about to use force to remove me from the hospital.
		I was first taken to the medical department at Stage 2 of the detention centre, where the nurse was very rude to me and did nothing in the form of a medical check-up except for simply checking my blood pressure.
		Especially the fact that detention security personnel used force to remove me from hospital leads me to feel and believe that my rights as a human being have been violated; and negligence on part of the medical staff at the detention centre is a continuing violation of human rights.
	www.resist.com.au /forum/topic.asp?whichpage=-1&TOPIC_ID=4832&REPLY_ID=8564 (1872 words)

	HREOC Website: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention
		People in Australian immigration detention centers are comprised of two main groups of being 'unauthorised arrivals' and people who have been in the Australia community.
		In the remote detention centers the 'screen out' is to be held in a different section of the centre to asylum seekers who are allowed access to legal assistance and allowed to make a protection visa applications.
		There have also been people in Villawood IDC claiming to be aged 14 or 15 who after being interviewed by DIMIA have been taken to the embassy of their country of origin to obtain travel documents to return home.
	www.hreoc.gov.au /human_rights/children_detention/submissions/racs.html (1374 words)

	chilout : children out of detention
		Read the letter from families in Villawood on 8 July 2004, concerned about their possible removal from Villawood to Baxter detention centre or the Port Augusta residential housing project.
		The Immigration Department has agreed not to transfer a number of families between two detention centres until it has gauged their response to the move.
		The Immigration Department has denied it is forcing asylum seekers at Villawood in Sydney to move to new housing projects at South Australia's Baxter detention centre.
	www.chilout.org /information/villawood.html (1503 words)

	Asbestos forces Villawood relocation - Breaking News - National - Breaking News
		All detainees at Sydney's Villawood immigration detention centre will be relocated on Tuesday after asbestos was found at the site.
		Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone said detainees would not have been exposed to the asbestos, which was found in a buffer zone around the detention facility.
		The remainder would be moved to detention centres at Baxter, in South Australia, and Maribyrnong, in Victoria, and Sydney's Long Bay prison.
	www.smh.com.au /news/National/Asbestos-at-Villawood-detainees-move/2006/04/10/1144521260295.html (294 words)

	CNN.com - Escapee takes route less-traveled - August 6, 2001
		Immigration officials said the Chinese man, who had been in the Villawood Immigration Detention Centre for about a month after overstaying his visa, walked undetected through the main gate with a group of visitors late on Saturday.
		The breakouts were the latest in a string of escapes and unrest at Australia's nine controversial detention centers, where all asylum-seekers arriving illegally are housed while their applications are processed.
		Australia's policy of mandatory detention of asylum-seekers for months or even years has been criticized by human rights groups as a violation of human rights.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/08/05/aust.escape (403 words)

	Green Left - Issues: Villawood detention centre diary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The police were called in twice to the Villawood immigration detention centre during the first week of January — once by management and once by a detainee.
		After a female detention officer and a Chinese woman detainee exchanged blows on January 10, the detainee demanded that the police be called.
		Police were next at the centre on January 11 for the deportation of a Sudanese man who’d been in detention at Villawood for seven years.
	www.greenleft.org.au /2005/611/35576 (575 words)

	Asylum detainees exposed to asbestos \| NEWS.com.au (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Immigration Department officials now fear that evidence the site was wrongly declared safe before it was used by hundreds of detainees could leave the Government exposed to compensation claims from asylum-seekers or Villawood staff.
		On April 11, Villawood detainees were sent to Long Bay jail, Holsworthy army barracks and detention centres at Baxter in South Australia and Maribyrnong in Victoria after Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone shut the centre down because police, concerned about asbestos contamination, refused to attend the site.
		According to the Immigration documents, NSW assistant police commissioner Dave Owens warned that, on the basis of "intelligence", there was a "seriously high risk of a number of protesters entering the VIDC site".
	www.news.com.au /story/0,23599,20242836-421,00.html (869 words)

	Reportage Home
		When Mariam's mother developed chronic asthma from the dirty conditions in the detention centre, she was hospitalised for two weeks, leaving the children alone.
		However, with its high fences and barbed wire, the detention centre is a gaol.
		She says the education and English-language programs available in the detention centre are inadequate for young people like Mariam and her brothers and sister, whose English is nearly perfect.
	www.uts.edu.au /oth/reportage/stories/2001/16refugeefamily.html (978 words)

	Major Projects Branch - Immigration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Major Projects Branch — Immigration is responsible for the construction and delivery of the Christmas Island Immigration Reception and Processing Centre and the Villawood Immigration Detention Centre Redevelopment (VIDCR) Project.
		The Australian Government announced in February 2003 that the Department of Finance and Administration (Finance) would be responsible for the construction of the Christmas Island Immigration Reception and Processing Centre. This arrangement allowed the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (DIMA) to focus on design and operational issues.
		The Australian Government decided in the 2004-05 Budget that it would undertake a redevelopment of the Villawood Immigration Detention Centre in Sydney to upgrade its security and replace ageing infrastructure.
	www.finance.gov.au /property/major_projects_branch_-__immig.html (326 words)

	CCJP accuses Federal Minister of "family smashing"
		The Executive Officer of the CCJP in Melbourne, Marc Purcell, published a frank news release yesterday welcoming the release of asylum seeker Shayan Badraie's mother Zahraa and sister Shubnam from Villawood Immigration Detention Centre in Sydney.
		The Catholic Commission for Justice Development and Peace (Melbourne) welcomed the release of Shayan Badraie's mother Zahraa and sister Shubnam from Villawood Immigration Detention Centre in Sydney.
		The Commission condemned the Immigration Minister for the ongoing detention of the children's father, Mohamed Zahid, and called for his immediate release.
	www.cathtelecom.com /news/201/75.php (355 words)

	Radio Australia - News - Clash at Australian immigration detention centre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Australian police are investigating a clash between detainees and guards at an immigration detention centre near Sydney.
		The trouble erupted while the guards at the Villawood Detention Centre were attempting to transfer several detainees from a low- to high-security compound.
		A spokesman from the immigration department, Sandi Logan, says it is the nature of detention that there are frustrations and anger from time to time.
	www.radioaustralia.net.au /news/stories/s1798873.htm (259 words)

	Plight of child 'detainee' touches hearts of many
		Clutching her purple hippopotamus backpack, Naomi returns to the Villawood detention centre after attending a playgroup, where she spent the morning painting, on Wednesday.
		Villawood Immigration Detention Centre in Sydney, Australia, has been the home of Naomi Leong since she was born, and according to psychiatrists who had assessed her, the trauma of being confined has got to her.
		Naomi has been outside the detention centre on two other occasions -- once to accompany her mother to court, and once on a two-hour trip to a farm.
	www.sun2surf.com /articlePrint.cfm?id=9130 (648 words)

	Compass
		Since the reshaping of Stage 2 and the increase in the size of the Villawood Detention Complex which now includes a Stage 3 section, this visitors’ section at the back has been pulled down and a new entrance built at the front.
		I have also experienced the pain of turning up at the Centre only to discover that a friend whose case I believed was sincere had been deported back to the country from which he or she had fled.
		This mandatory detention is itself a matter for concern: alone among the nations, Australia excludes any discretion being exercised as to whether, in particular cases, detention may be inappropriate or should be abbreviated.
	www.compassreview.org /autumn02/4.html (2951 words)

	RIGHTS-AUSTRALIA: Children Take Brunt of Immigration Detention Policy
		She had lived in Australia for nine years and was studying in class 11, when immigration officials came to her family home a few months ago and took away her parents and younger brother because her mother had overstayed her visa.
		Michael Andrew Tran was born in detention to Vietnamese asylum- seeker parents and so was 11-month-old Tina, whose parents came to Australia in 1996 seeking asylum from China and were put in detention along with her three-year-old brother in August 2003.
		Mandatory detention for unlawful non-citizens was introduced in Australia in 1992 and while many countries detain illegal immigrants, Australia is probably the only country where detention is mandatory for adults and children during case process.
	www.ipsnews.net /news.asp?idnews=29641 (1203 words)

	Callous maltreatment of refugees in Australian detention centres
		The detainees were being transferred from Maribyrnong detention centre in Melbourne to the Baxter facility in South Australia when the incidents occurred.
		* The immigration department failed to protect a woman who was sexually abused and violently attacked in front of her daughter at the Curtin detention centre in the north of Western Australia in late July 2002.
		Although the family has now been transferred from Villawood, Young He and her children are still subject to close monitoring and restrictions under a modified form of detention, like all the other asylum seeker families with children.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2005/aug2005/baxt-a04.shtml (1318 words)

	Canberra Theatre Centre
		He was released with a Permanent Visa from Villawood Immigration Detention Centre in 2003.
		He escaped to arrive in Australia in January 2000,was held in the Villawood Immigration Detention Centre in Sydney.
		Was held in Port Hedland Detention centre for the next four months, then released on a Temporary Protection Visa.
	www.canberratheatre.org.au /pages/page291.asp (420 words)

	Critical Times » Detention centre’s deadly asbestos
		Immigration Department officials now fear that evidence the site was wrongly declared safe before it was used by hundreds of detainees could leave the Government exposed to compensation claims from asylum-seekers or Villawood staff.
		The claims, which included an allegation that a male detainee repeatedly raped a female detainee in front of her toddler over a six-month period in 2004, were referred to police for further investigation after Mr Hamburger’s interim report.
		On April 11, Villawood detainees were sent to Long Bay jail, Holsworthy army barracks and detention centres at Baxter in South Australia and Maribyrnong in Victoria after Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone shut the centre down because police, concerned about asbestos contamination, refused to attend the site.
	www.criticaltimes.com.au /news/detention-centres-deadly-asbestos (1569 words)

	Refugee Action Committee, Canberra - Denada's journey
		So at the end of the rally I approached Marion and told her I would like to be in touch with a refugee in a detention centre.
		The first time I saw Villawood was an aerial shot on the TV news and I had an idea of where my friend was.
		Often on the news I hear about refugees and detention centres and find it disturbing knowing that there are children behind bars.
	www.refugeeaction.org /stories/denada.htm (1174 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Immigration Won't Shut Villawood Despite Asbestos Scare
		The immigration department says it won't shut down a Sydney detention centre where asbestos has been found, despite the fears of refugee advocates and the NSW police union that the site is dangerous.
		The immigration department today said routine tests had detected asbestos fibres in a restricted area of the Villawood Immigration Detention Centre in Sydney's south-west, but the find posed only a "low risk".
		A department spokesman today said the 255 detainees at the centre would not be immediately evacuated from the centre because the current asbestos levels were considered "low risk".
	www.theepochtimes.com /news/6-4-6/40111.html (417 words)

	Balcony fall ended detainee's desperate life - smh.com.au
		In July last year Thi Hang Le was picked up by NSW Police for overstaying her visa, and was taken to Villawood Immigration Detention Centre.
		But less than a minute after the detention officer who was watching her walked away, Ms Le jumped 2.5 metres from a second-storey balcony from which she had twice previously attempted suicide.
		Ms Simplee, a sex worker and heroin addict, was caught by the Department of Immigration in a raid on a Sydney brothel in 2001, and died three days later.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/11/14/1037080851429.html (632 words)

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