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Contact Australia's new Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull
What might the recent leadership spill mean for asylum seekers and refugees? The new PM has expressed "concern" about those held in offshore detention (although he insists they won't settle here) and has been called on by colleagues and others to do something about it.
Will Turnbull be the leader who creates the long-overdue regional framework, instead of playing Tweedledum and Tweedledee with human lives? Will the Save The Children staff who were slandered and deported from Nauru be given any sort of explanation or apology? Will Syrian asylum seekers and refugees in detention be made part of, or added to, our small but important one-off humanitarian intake from that country -including the the young man who was voluntarily repatriated from Manus to rescue his wife and newborn daughter and tortured on his arrival?). Will those brought here from Syria be chosen on grounds of their need or by their religion?
A couple of weeks after Turnbull was sworn in, the UN's Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, Professor François Crépeau, cancelled his planned visit due to the Border Force Act, which makes his job impossible to perform. An open letter calls on the new PM to allow detention centre workers talk to the UN representative without fear of reprisal.
Meanwhile, thanks to a smart campaign called No Business in Abuse, detention centre operator Transfield (soon to be renamed Broadspectrum) is under pressure not just from human rights groups but from unions, shareholders, investors. The company may also face legal action over abuses in the camps.
What might the recent leadership spill mean for asylum seekers and refugees? The new PM has expressed "concern" about those held in offshore detention (although he insists they won't settle here) and has been called on by colleagues and others to do something about it.
Will Turnbull be the leader who creates the long-overdue regional framework, instead of playing Tweedledum and Tweedledee with human lives? Will the Save The Children staff who were slandered and deported from Nauru be given any sort of explanation or apology? Will Syrian asylum seekers and refugees in detention be made part of, or added to, our small but important one-off humanitarian intake from that country -including the the young man who was voluntarily repatriated from Manus to rescue his wife and newborn daughter and tortured on his arrival?). Will those brought here from Syria be chosen on grounds of their need or by their religion?
A couple of weeks after Turnbull was sworn in, the UN's Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, Professor François Crépeau, cancelled his planned visit due to the Border Force Act, which makes his job impossible to perform. An open letter calls on the new PM to allow detention centre workers talk to the UN representative without fear of reprisal.
Meanwhile, thanks to a smart campaign called No Business in Abuse, detention centre operator Transfield (soon to be renamed Broadspectrum) is under pressure not just from human rights groups but from unions, shareholders, investors. The company may also face legal action over abuses in the camps.
