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Refugee Update
Oct. 22nd, 2017 08:48 amThese damn bookmarks. I just can't keep up. I don't know what else I can do. Let me tell you, if you really want to get a head of steam up about this stuff, read about the Holocaust. You can't parallel the situations directly or simply, in intent or numbers or context. But the individual misery, the bureaucratic horror, the bigotry and cruelty, the visceral outrage - those will be familiar.
500 asylum seekers face deportation for missing protection deadline (GA, 29 September 2017) The sudden tight deadline was, of course, intended to create this situation - to get rid of some of the government's embarrassment by sending people, including families with young children, back to their deaths.
In better news, the Asylum Seekers Resources Centre reports that the movement to #LetThemStay is working: the government has eased back the throttle on its attempt to force asylum seekers back to Nauru and Manus with the threat of homelessness and starvation and sometimes I can't believe I am typing sentences like this why doesn't the Earth fall into the sun right now.
Peter Dutton Is Being Asked To Explain Why He Just Lost His Chief Medical Officer (Buzzfeed News, 15 September 2017). I would like to think Dr John Brayley quit as Australian Border Force's surgeon-general out of shame and embarrassment, perhaps over the death of Hamed Shamshiripour. The problem is: "Brayley's departure effectively leaves asylum seekers and refugees without a medical advocate in the immigration department."
Peter Dutton introduces bill to ban phones from immigration detainees (GA, 13 September 2017). Purportedly this is to stop detained criminals from organising crimes. "If the minister is concerned about the criminal use of mobile phones then he needs to separate vulnerable individuals who come to Australia for protection from those alleged criminals,' said George Newhouse, human rights lawyer and principal solicitor for the National Justice Project."
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has attacked the decisions of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, which overturned 39% of his decisions in the first four months of this year, and is replacing more than fifty of its members. Meanwhile, the Refugee Review Tribunal made an incredible cockup in the case of a disabled Hazara man.
Syrian, Iraqi refugees' trauma levels 'highest I've seen', says advocate (5 October 2017, 10 am)
Detention no place for kids: Church abuse survivors (Newcastle Herald, 8 June 2015)."We've got vulnerable children being used by our politicians in a game that's about political gain and clinging on to power and authority, and that's completely contrary to what Australia ought to represent."
500 asylum seekers face deportation for missing protection deadline (GA, 29 September 2017) The sudden tight deadline was, of course, intended to create this situation - to get rid of some of the government's embarrassment by sending people, including families with young children, back to their deaths.
In better news, the Asylum Seekers Resources Centre reports that the movement to #LetThemStay is working: the government has eased back the throttle on its attempt to force asylum seekers back to Nauru and Manus with the threat of homelessness and starvation and sometimes I can't believe I am typing sentences like this why doesn't the Earth fall into the sun right now.
Peter Dutton Is Being Asked To Explain Why He Just Lost His Chief Medical Officer (Buzzfeed News, 15 September 2017). I would like to think Dr John Brayley quit as Australian Border Force's surgeon-general out of shame and embarrassment, perhaps over the death of Hamed Shamshiripour. The problem is: "Brayley's departure effectively leaves asylum seekers and refugees without a medical advocate in the immigration department."
Peter Dutton introduces bill to ban phones from immigration detainees (GA, 13 September 2017). Purportedly this is to stop detained criminals from organising crimes. "If the minister is concerned about the criminal use of mobile phones then he needs to separate vulnerable individuals who come to Australia for protection from those alleged criminals,' said George Newhouse, human rights lawyer and principal solicitor for the National Justice Project."
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has attacked the decisions of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, which overturned 39% of his decisions in the first four months of this year, and is replacing more than fifty of its members. Meanwhile, the Refugee Review Tribunal made an incredible cockup in the case of a disabled Hazara man.
Syrian, Iraqi refugees' trauma levels 'highest I've seen', says advocate (5 October 2017, 10 am)
Detention no place for kids: Church abuse survivors (Newcastle Herald, 8 June 2015)."We've got vulnerable children being used by our politicians in a game that's about political gain and clinging on to power and authority, and that's completely contrary to what Australia ought to represent."
