Letters to Editors (2002)
The letters on these pages are sent by the department to media outlets following publication or broadcasting of items of portfolio interest.
December
- Incorrect information (The Australian, Dec 4)
November
- 'Detainees languish alone, forgotten' (The Advertiser, Nov 28)
- Pacific Solution Drains Coffers (Herald Sun, Nov 20)
October
- HREOC Decision - (All Editors/Producers, Oct 14)
- 'Letters from behind the wire' (The Age, Oct 2)
- Philippines migration (Herald Sun, Oct 1)
September
- Ombudsman (The Australian, Sep 30)
- Passenger cards (The Bulletin, Sep 26)
- Detention arrangements (The Armidale Independent, Sep 6)
- 'Court frees refugee' (The Sunday Mail, Adelaide, Sep 2)
August
- But did we see them passing by (The Age, Aug 29)
- Latin American students (The Age, Aug 21)
- Illegals go free (Herald Sun, Aug 21)
- Back Door Rort (Sydney Morning Herald, Aug 21)
- Life in Australia worse than Afghan prison (Sydney Morning Herald, Aug 14)
- Kabul plea on detainees (The Age, Aug 14)
July
- Scrutiny of detention facilities (The Courier Mail, July 30)
- UN condemns Australia (The Australian, July 30)
- Asylum seekers conditions in detention (The Leader, 29 July)
- Process for the resettlement of refugees (The Australian, July 26)
- Age claim boy attempted hanging (The Age, July 22)
- Treatment of detainees (The Australian Jewish News, July 17)
- Claims about children in detention (The Canberra Times, July 17)
- Conditions in Detention (The Age, July 9)
- TPV Holder Inaccuracies (The Age, July 8)
- Unauthorised journalist entry to Nauru (The Age, July 4)
June
- Non-return rate for visitors (Australian Financial Review, June 4)
May
- Immigration programs are not racist (Sunday Herald Sun, May 20)
- Equal chance for immigrants (New York Times, May 16)
- Skills required for skilled migration (The Australian, May 16)
- Health care for refugees (GP Review, May 15)
- E-tagging is not a viable option (Sydney Morning Herald, May 8)
- Detention conditions (The Mercury, May 3)
April
- Photo caption wrong (Australian Financial Review, Apr 24)
- Detention centre misinformation (Adelaide Advertiser, Apr 19)
- Presenting the facts (Adelaide Advertiser, Apr 18)
- Verify the facts (The Age, Apr 17)
- Verify the facts (The West Australian, Apr 17)
- Verify the facts (The Australian, Apr 17)
- Woomera facilities (Australian Financial Review, Apr 3)
March
- Detention centre issues (Sunday Herald Sun, Mar 11)
- Combating people smuggling (Australian Financial Review, Mar 6)
- National Population Summit (The Age, Herald Sun and Sunday Herald Sun, Mar 1)
February
- Children in detention centres (The Daily Telegraph, Feb 12)
- Women in detention centres (The Age, Feb 6)
- Visa delays not punishment (The Age, Feb 5)
January
- Australia's detention centres (Letter to all Editors, Jan 25)
- Doctors confidentiality agreements (The Australian, Jan 24)
- Access to detention centres (Adelaide Advertiser, Jan 23)
- Doctors letter to the editor (The Australian, Jan 23)
- Detention centre scrutiny (The Age, Jan 23)