Release sought for asylum boy who attempted suicide

Release sought for asylum boy who attempted suicide:

"A 17-YEAR-OLD boy who wound up in hospital in Darwin after trying to hang himself from a double bunk is at the centre of a legal challenge by Slater & Gordon to the prolonged detention of recognised refugees awaiting ASIO security checks."

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All's not fair in love and work | Knowledge@Australian School of Business | Commentary | Business Spectator

All's not fair in love and work
 | Knowledge@Australian School of Business | Commentary | Business Spectator:

"At a 2002 Christmas party for Australian Embassy staff in Moscow, Natalia Komarova, the embassy's Russian-born public diplomacy officer and Bruce Jones, a recently arrived political officer, met and immediately struck up a friendship. Several months later, when friendship blossomed into romance, the pair reported their relationship immediately to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, as required by the code of conduct outlined in their employment contracts."

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review ASIO over mandatory detention

PM - Call for Roxon to review ASIO over mandatory detention:

"MATT PEACOCK: A prominent civil rights advocate is calling on the new Attorney-General, Nicola Roxon, to reconsider the position of the head of ASIO over the issue of mandatory detention of refugees."

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Protest as teenage asylum seekers are detained with adults

Protest as teenage asylum seekers are detained with adults:

"EIGHT teenage asylum seekers, all minors, have had their community housing revoked and been moved into adult detention facilities in the past fortnight, while another has run away and is missing."

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Activists warn of Rohingya refugee influx

Activists warn of Rohingya refugee influx:

"Human rights groups say up to 25 boats of Burmese Muslim Rohingya refugees have set off from Bangladesh since September for Malaysia or Indonesia and may head on to Australia."

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