Sidiqa Faqihi waited a decade in limbo in Indonesia before she arrived in Australia three years ago and felt reborn.

In Australia, however, political debate is more often about ways to stop refugees from reaching the country, especially in the lead up to that country’s national election on July 2.

Opposition To Refugees Grows In Australia A recent poll of Australians found that 40 percent believe large numbers of ... Underlying the debate is Australia's sometimes checkered past with ...

Our new research confirmed this finding, with 68% of the refugees surveyed in Queensland overall – and 81% in Toowoomba - reporting it was “very easy” or “easy” to make friends in Australia.

Australia, he says, wanted to stop refugees from coming and often dying on dangerous boat journeys. PETER DUTTON: I've spoken to the sailors on our boats, on our vessels who were pulling half ...

Australia: Focus Election Debate on ... As a party to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol, Australia is prohibited from returning refugees to places ...

A fishing boat carrying nearly 100 asylum seekers capsized off Australia's west coast on Monday, authorities said, turning the spotlight on the sensitive issues of refugee policy and border ...

The issue of how to deal with refugees coming in to Australia from places like Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka is a tough one. Prime Minister Julia Gillard hopes to resolve the divisive matter by ...

As the debate over refugee classification rages on, Israel’s reports of UNRWA’s connections to terrorism have also dominated recent discussions. Citing its intelligence findings, ...

The man behind the deadly 16-hour hostage standoff in Sydney arrived in Australia as a refugee in 1996, seeking asylum from the Iranian regime. In the years since, Man Haron Monis became a self ...