#IAmWatching Manus
Nov. 17th, 2017 04:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamer_easyDecay, despair, defiance: inside the Manus Island refugee camp (GA, 16 November 2017)
PM Malcolm Turnbull dodged a meeting with NZ PM Jacinda Adern on the refugee situation. Meanwhile, Peter Dutton acknowledged that New Zealand doesn't need Australia's permission to resettle however many refugees it wants.
NZ has also offered PNG $3 million to improve services on Manus Island. (Services are already scant for local people, so permanent improvements to the underresourced hospital would be a mitzvah - and perhaps cool tensions?)
The New Zealand Herald analyses propaganda about the Manus detainees in the Australia media, which has been dismissed by the NZ government. (It's hard to know whether the allegations of child sexual abuse are just rumours or something more serious; what's certain is that they're being used to smear hundreds of men as criminals.)
PM Malcolm Turnbull dodged a meeting with NZ PM Jacinda Adern on the refugee situation. Meanwhile, Peter Dutton acknowledged that New Zealand doesn't need Australia's permission to resettle however many refugees it wants.
NZ has also offered PNG $3 million to improve services on Manus Island. (Services are already scant for local people, so permanent improvements to the underresourced hospital would be a mitzvah - and perhaps cool tensions?)
The New Zealand Herald analyses propaganda about the Manus detainees in the Australia media, which has been dismissed by the NZ government. (It's hard to know whether the allegations of child sexual abuse are just rumours or something more serious; what's certain is that they're being used to smear hundreds of men as criminals.)
