2014

DIBP - Place of origin of Indonesian minors charged with people smuggling

The Australian Lawyers Alliance applied to the Department of Immigration and Border Protection for the release of information of the 181 Indonesian minors identified as individuals of concern by the Australian Human Rights Commission in its An age of uncertainty inquiry into the treatment of individuals suspected of people smuggling offences who say that they are children. 

DIBP - 'Voluntary return' of asylum seekers

Asylum seekers and human rights 

In July 2014, the Department of Immigration and Citizenship released figures to the Australian Lawyers Alliance regarding how many people received reintegration assistance payments to 'voluntarily' return to the country from which they had fled. Information was released to us in the period from September 2013 to July 2014.