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Don’t expand Christmas Island

Australia should use its resources to find humane alternatives to the Christmas Island detention centre, rather than spending money on expanding it.

Jeffery Pepperill, an Anmatyerr man who lives with his wife and family at Camel Camp in the Utopia Homelands region

No discriminatory loopholes in the NT

The Federal Government’s promised reinstatement of the Racial Discrimination Act will be an empty gesture if it retains racial discrimination.

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Amnesty International’s campaigning has had an immediate effect on the safety and protection of Brazilian peasant farmer and land rights activist, Jose Luis da Silva and his family.

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