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Refugee Update
May. 6th, 2016 12:15 pmAsylum seekers flown back to Sri Lanka from Cocos Islands (SMH, 6 May 2016)
Bad Blood (Four Corners, 25 April 2016). "The Australian Government contract to provide healthcare to detainees has already cost taxpayers more than a billion dollars, but doctors say the medical care provided offshore in Manus Island is dangerously inadequate."
Manus Island: 'Pathetic' bureaucratic response blamed for asylum seeker Hamid Khazaei's death (ABC, 25 April 2016) This is one of those cases where reading about the Nazis gives me an uncomfortable feeling. They killed deliberately, but they also killed through criminal neglect. Australia's detention regime has different goals to the Nazis, and the sheer scale of horror can't be compared. Nor are we starving people or working them to death. Nonetheless, deaths are the inevitable result of our indefinitely imprisoning people in physically dangerous camps with poor nutrition and medical care.
Human Rights Watch: Papua New Guinea 'must tell UN its plan' for closing Manus detention centre (GA, 5 May 2016) This is a useful overview of the detention centre, and of PNG and why it's a bad place to rehome refugees.
Norfolk Islanders propose hosting processing centre for asylum seekers (GA, 5 May 2016) Interestingly, the proposal is for community detention, not detention centres. Opponents' chief concern has been the impact on the tourism industry. Islanders are also wisely suspicious of the Australian government's track record when it comes to promises made to its offshore processing centres.
Young Liberty for Law Reform report: Detention centre staff say careers and lives were damaged by speaking out (GA, 27 April 2016)
Bad Blood (Four Corners, 25 April 2016). "The Australian Government contract to provide healthcare to detainees has already cost taxpayers more than a billion dollars, but doctors say the medical care provided offshore in Manus Island is dangerously inadequate."
Manus Island: 'Pathetic' bureaucratic response blamed for asylum seeker Hamid Khazaei's death (ABC, 25 April 2016) This is one of those cases where reading about the Nazis gives me an uncomfortable feeling. They killed deliberately, but they also killed through criminal neglect. Australia's detention regime has different goals to the Nazis, and the sheer scale of horror can't be compared. Nor are we starving people or working them to death. Nonetheless, deaths are the inevitable result of our indefinitely imprisoning people in physically dangerous camps with poor nutrition and medical care.
Human Rights Watch: Papua New Guinea 'must tell UN its plan' for closing Manus detention centre (GA, 5 May 2016) This is a useful overview of the detention centre, and of PNG and why it's a bad place to rehome refugees.
Norfolk Islanders propose hosting processing centre for asylum seekers (GA, 5 May 2016) Interestingly, the proposal is for community detention, not detention centres. Opponents' chief concern has been the impact on the tourism industry. Islanders are also wisely suspicious of the Australian government's track record when it comes to promises made to its offshore processing centres.
Young Liberty for Law Reform report: Detention centre staff say careers and lives were damaged by speaking out (GA, 27 April 2016)
