Cameras disabled after Manus Island photos revealed
Bianca Hall Tablet computers for asylum seekers on Manus Island have had their camera functions removed days after Fairfax Media published photographs of life in the island's camp.
Slipper to face dishonesty court hearing
Judith Ireland, Jonathan Swan and Bianca Hall Former parliamentary speaker Peter Slipper has been summonsed to face court next month for alleged breaches of federal criminal laws, further destablising Julia Gillard's minority government as it...
Manus photos spark camera crackdown
Bianca Hall Computers for asylum seekers on Manus Island have had their camera functions removed days after Fairfax Media published photographs of life in the island's camp, refugee advocates claims.
Greens claim $2b will fix Newstart poverty
Bianca Hall IS $2 BILLION a year too much to help Australia's most impoverished people?
Smuggled photos shed light on realities of Manus
Bianca Hall THE first pictures have emerged of daily life on Manus Island, taken in the camp and sent to refugee activists on the mainland.
Top MPs dodge flak on benefits
Bianca Hall Labor frontbenchers coy on tougher benefits imposed on more than 80,000 single parents.
ACOSS calls on Macklin to 'please do your job'
Bianca Hall Australia's leading social service agency called for Families Minister to 'please do your job'.
Try living on $35 a day, Macklin told
Bianca Hall AUSTRALIA'S leading social service agency has called for the federal Families Minister, Jenny Macklin, to ''please do your job'', as the furore over Ms Macklin's performance grew.
Asylum seeker debate marked by tragedy and discord
Bianca Hall, Daniel Flitton IN JUNE, Australia watched with horror as televisions screened graphic scenes of scores of boatpeople crashing and thrashing against the rocks of Christmas Island's unforgiving coast.
United Nations warns of moral duty to refugees
Bianca Hall Australia, Nauru could be in breach of international obligations to protect refugees, UN finds.
UNHCR takes aim at Australia over Nauru detainees
Bianca Hall Australia and Nauru could be in breach of their international obligations to protect refugees over the running of the detention centre on Nauru, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has...
Hockey claims Treasury 'stalking horse'
Bianca Hall Opposition Treasury spokesman Joe Hockey says the government is using Treasury as its 'stalking horse' to leak politically convenient data.
Gillard slams North Korea rocket launch
Bianca Hall Australia will protest directly to the North Korean government after Pyongyang launched a long-range rocket.
Ashby, Slipper and muddy politics in the Sunshine State
Bianca Hall The sexual harassment case that brought ''shell-less mussels'' into Australia's vernacular and brought down a Speaker of Parliament began at a sprawling strawberry farm on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.
Nauru court tries detainees over riot
Bianca Hall Sixteen asylum seekers on Nauru appeared at the island's tiny local court on Monday, accused of causing $24,000 in damage at an alleged riot at the processing centre in September.
Asylum seekers face court over Nauru damage
Bianca Hall Sixteen asylum seekers on Nauru appeared at the island's tiny local court on Monday, accused of causing $24,000 worth of damage at the processing centre in September.
Australian royal prank inquiry weighed
Judith Ireland and Bianca Hall The Australian media watchdog is considering fast tracking an inquiry into Sydney radio station 2Day FM over its prank call to the London hospital caring for the Duchess of Cambridge last week.
Anger over Sri Lankans' deportation
Bianca Hall Refugee Council's chief calls on government to halt forced deportation of asylum seekers.
400 asylum seekers released on bridging visas
Bianca Hall About 400 asylum seekers have been released from detention in Darwin after being granted bridging visas.
Asylum officials 'ignore claims'
Ben Doherty and Bianca Hall Asylum seekers forcibly deported from Australia say the government ignored their claims of persecution, granted them only one brief interview in detention and knowingly sent them back to danger in...
