While the government and opposition avoided criticism of each other's position on border security, others were not so circumspect. Prominent lawyer George Newhouse, who is representing survivors of last year's Christmas Island boat tragedy, said heavy...

A lawyer acting for survivors of last year's Christmas Island boat tragedy, in which up to 50 asylum seekers died when their wooden boat crashed into rocks after losing engine power, said the latest incident was proof the government's policies were...

A wooden boat packed with up to 300 asylum seekers sank off the Indonesian island on Saturday, with only 33 people rescued. George Newhouse, of Shine Lawyers, said he had seen the suffering of the survivors of the SIEV 221 tragedy a year ago, in which...