25 Mar 2022

Australia backs down over refugee resettlement

From Nine To Noon, 9:05 am on 25 March 2022
Three asylum seekers gesture to protesters holding a pro-refugee rights rally from their hotel room where they have been detained in Melbourne on June 13, 2020, after they were evacuated to Australia for medical reasons from offshore detention centres on Nauru and Manus Island.

Photo: AFP

After nearly a decade languishing in off-shore detention centres, 450 refugees in Australia will be resettled in this country over three years. 

The Australian government agreed to the deal yesterday - nine years after it was first offered by the then National Prime Minister John Key. Kathryn speaks with Melbourne based human rights lawyer Alison Battisson who has acted for many of the refugees.