Australia’s airport asylum process explained

Airport officials without relevant expertise are making life-or-death decisions about people who might seek refugee protection in Australia, according to a new policy brief from UNSW’s Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law. Here, a man who fled Saudi Arabia’s anti-gay policies tells what happened when he experienced Australia’s ‘entry screening’ process. The policy brief authors recommend reforms that should be made before international travel resumes following the COVID-19 pandemic. To understand the process and how it can be reformed, read the policy brief, ‘Assessing Protection Claims at Airports: Developing procedures to meet international and domestic obligations, written by Regina Jefferies (Kaldor Centre), Daniel Ghezelbash (Macquarie Law School), and Asher Hirsch (Refugee Council of Australia/Monash University). Read the brief at: https://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/...