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Late on Friday night, some of the detainees at Melbourne’s Park Hotel had their first taste of freedom in nine years. But they still have no idea as to why.

Late on Friday night, some of the detainees at Melbourne’s Park Hotel had their first taste of freedom in nine years. But they still have no idea as to why.

Late on Friday night, some of the detainees at Melbourne’s Park Hotel had their first taste of freedom in nine years. But they still have no idea as to why.

Some of Australia's refugees have been detained for a horrifying nine years. Meanwhile, we've kept voting for the people who are doing it, writes

Some of Australia's refugees have been detained for a horrifying nine years. Meanwhile, we've kept voting for the people who are doing it, writes

Long after Djokovics deportation from Australia, the refugees at the Park Hotel still face the prospect of...

Over nearly a year of a pandemic, many people have become acutely aware of what it means to be confined to their homes. But for asylum-seekers who have been held in Australian hotels, these stifling conditions have stretched on for months and months, pushing some to the breaking point. Two have tried to commit suicide.

Jan 22, 2021 Melbourne – When authorities brought Ramsiyar Sabanayagam to the Mantra Bell City Preston hotel in suburban Melbourne in November 2019, he assumed he would be there for only a few weeks. Instead, Sabanayagam, a refugee from Sri Lanka, spent the next 14 months locked inside his room for all but a brief period each day, unsure when his ordeal would end. He and the other refugees detained in the hotel were ordered to keep their windows shut until, after protesting, they wer...