Annabel Hennessy

Annabel Hennessy is the Australia researcher for Human Rights Watch. Prior to joining Human Rights Watch, Annabel worked in journalism for a decade including as an investigative reporter. She has won several awards for her reporting, including The Walkley Foundation’s Overall Young Australian Journalist of the Year (2020), Young Walkley for Public Service Journalism (2020 and 2021) and West Australian Journalist of the Year (2020). She has published extensively on social policy and issues relating to Indigenous rights, homelessness, disability, and the justice system.

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Australia should halt plan to deport refugees, migrants to Nauru
Annabel Hennessy

Australia should halt plan to deport refugees, migrants to Nauru

Last week, the Australian Government struck a A$400 million (US$260 million) deal with Nauru to deport 280 people to the small Pacific island nation. It is also proposing new legislation to strip those facing deportation of their basic procedural rights.