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consideration include striking flicks such as Eva Orner's  Chasing Asylum , which marks the director's first AACTA nomination and delves into the prickly world of Australian offshore detention

home country of Sweden is in the midst of a national debate about asylum seekers. It's a debate that Lyxzen fears is robbing Sweden of its customary tolerance

your eyes opened by a screening of Eva Orner 's poignant documentary  Chasing Asylum  (followed by a Q&A with  Lindsay 'The Doctor' McDougall ); or spend ... Incident ,  Wastelander Panda, Inside Out ) and Billie Pleffer ( Bino ,  Baby Baby ) Chasing Asylum  — film screening & panel Hosted by Lindsay "The Doctor" McDougall Featuring director

Tampa Affair was a pivotal moment in Australian history and the lives of 438 asylum seekers stuck at sea hung in the balance of then-Prime Minister John Howard ... introduced the Border Protection Bill less than a week later. The bill stripped asylum seekers of their human rights meaning boats could be turned away without consequence. Opinion polls

Rights review pretty much has come out and said that Australia's treatment of asylum seekers in offshore detention centres is illegal and inhumane yet current and past policies ... else to be broken. But I'd like to talk about the treatment of asylum seekers coming to Australia via boat. As I said during the Laneway #letthemstay campaign

more. BTHSC takes place less than a week before the federal election, putting asylum seeker issues back at the forefront of the table of pre-vote discourse, with Kennedy describing ... action as well as a celebration of the diversity and enrichment refugees and asylum seekers bring to our Brisbane communities". Echoed Furtado: "It's horrifying that people —  plural , that

xenophobia to some truly uncomfortable-to-watch parallels to the way our country "processes" asylum seekers (and to its treatment of its own Indigenous peoples). Essentially, the world of Cleverman

suffering and resilience and hope. This power is shown through the voices of asylum seekers in Another Country , who speak of what it is to seek asylum in a country

They Will Have to Kill Us First: Malian Music in Exile, Chasing Asylum (opening night),  Land Grabbing, The Bad Kids, Prison Songs. Do you have any plans