Ten years is the maximum penalty for escaping a detention centre and being unlawfully at large and it is what faces Parviz Eftekhari, who escaped from Woomera detention centre on June 9. The escape ...

GENEVA - While welcoming the end of protests in Australia's Woomera detention centre, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees today urged Canberra to review its policy of detaining asylum seekers.

I had never heard of an atlatl, the ancient weapon in your recent story. But Australians may have heard of the rocket base developed at Woomera in South Australia, aptly named after an Aboriginal ...

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Woomera is a notorious mandatory detention centre in South Australia a particularly arid and inhospitable part of the desert In 2002 about one thousand people gathered at Woomera to protest about the ...