Home free: I’m waiting for justice after Australia locked me in an invisible coffin for 15 months. By Mostafa Azimitabar, The Guardian

I brought proceedings against the Australian government to challenge the legality of hotel detention. If I win this case, it will have significant ramifications and not just for other people who have been held in hotel detention.

Home free: I’m waiting for justice after Australia locked me in an invisible coffin for 15 months. By Mostafa Azimitabar, The Guardian

Ezidi refugees in Armidale say gap in language translation service impacts health care. By Max Tillman, ABC News

The language Ezidi is not recognised by the National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters (NAATI), which trains and accredits translators in more than 180 languages. 

The ABC has spoken to several members of Armidale's Ezidi community, who all said an absence of interpreters trained specifically in their language made visits to the hospital or local GP a highly stressful experience. 

Ezidi refugees in Armidale say gap in language translation service impacts health care. By Max Tillman, ABC News

Why our detention centres are a form of cruel care. Late Night Live presented by Philip Adams, ABC Radio National

Much of the debate around stopping the boats and even locking children up in detention centres has been around what is in the "best interests" of kids and their families. Dr Jordana Silverstein argues this approach has resonances with settler-colonial attitudes to Indigenous people and to any who come to our shores seeking succour from non-white countries. 

Guest: Dr Jordana Silverstein, Senior Research Fellow at the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness at the University of Melbourne.

Why our detention centres are a form of cruel care. Late Night Live presented by Philip Adams, ABC Radio National

Nauru: Why Australia is funding an empty detention centre. By Hannah Ritchie, BBC News Sydney

Despite quietly shifting away from offshore processing, Australia recently signed a A$422m contract with a US prison company to oversee Nauru until at least 2025.

"The enduring capability ensures regional processing arrangements remain ready to receive and process any new unauthorised maritime arrivals, future-proofing Australia's response to maritime people smuggling," a spokesperson for the Department of Home Affairs said.

Nauru: Why Australia is funding an empty detention centre. By Hannah Ritchie, BBC News Sydney

The ‘triumph of cruelty’ in Australia’s asylum seeker policy – Full Story podcast. Presented by Jane Lee with Eden Gillespie and Paul Karp, The Guardian (20:42 mins)

The last refugee has now been evacuated from Nauru. Yet the Australian-run detention centre remains ‘ready to receive and process’ any new unauthorised maritime arrivals at an annual cost of $350m.

Guardian Australia chief political correspondent Paul Karp and reporter Eden Gillespie tell Jane Lee about what refugees and asylum seekers detained for more than a decade make of the decision, and what it means for Australia’s deterrence policy.

The ‘triumph of cruelty’ in Australia’s asylum seeker policy – Full Story podcast. Presented by Jane Lee with Eden Gillespie and Paul Karp, The Guardian (20:42 mins)

Yes, of course we need a Human Rights Act! By Bronwyn Kelly, Pearls and Irritations

For instance, if an Act were designed to prohibit executive decisions that run counter to the international human rights treaties our parliaments have already ratified, we might hope that this would lessen the harms that have flowed from our unconstrained governments in policies such as those on detention of asylum seekers and children, mixing of adult and juvenile offenders as well as accused persons and convicted persons in detention centres, compensation of wrongly convicted persons, whistleblowers making genuine public interest disclosures, compensation of Indigenous peoples for theft of their lands and children, protection of Australians and others from climate change, and protection of Australians from propaganda for war.

Yes, of course we need a Human Rights Act! By Bronwyn Kelly, Pearls and Irritations

Last refugee on Nauru evacuated as Australian government says offshore processing policy remains. By Ben Doherty and Eden Gillespie, The Guardian

The last refugee held by Australia on Nauru has been evacuated off the island, flying into Brisbane on Saturday night, marking the end – at least for now – of more than a decade of offshore processing on the Pacific island.

However the Australian government says it remains committed to offshore processing as a policy. It maintains an offshore detention centre in abeyance on the island, at an annual cost of $350m, which it says is “ready to receive and process any new unauthorised maritime arrivals”.

Last refugee on Nauru evacuated as Australian government says offshore processing policy remains. By Ben Doherty and Eden Gillespie, The Guardian

Australia to move last refugee from offshore processing on Nauru – but its cruelty and cost are not over. By Ben Doherty and Eden Gillespie, The Guardian

“Offshore processing failed to achieve its stated objectives of ‘stopping the boats’ or ‘saving lives at sea’,” Madeline Gleeson (senior research fellow at the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at UNSW) says. “During the height of this policy, more asylum seekers were trying to reach Australia by boat than at any previous time. What it was effective at doing was dehumanising people who came here in search of safety, and scoring political points.”

Australia to move last refugee from offshore processing on Nauru – but its cruelty and cost are not over. By Ben Doherty and Eden Gillespie, The Guardian