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Refugee Update
May. 21st, 2018 10:43 amCombined Refugee Action Group reports that there was a fire in the Hillside detention centre on Manus. No-one was hurt, but the men have been left without beds or food.
Asylum seekers 'face destitution' as income support and housing cut off (GA, 17 May 2018). "The federal government is taking away income support and housing from up to 100 refugees and asylum seekers from Manus Island and Nauru who are currently in Australia for medical treatment. The group... includes families, elderly people and pregnant women..." Vinnies characterises this cut as part of a general move by the government to divest itself of its legal responsibility to care for refugees, outsourcing that responsibility to charities and community groups. "Most of those targeted this week were families with young children, who were given six weeks to find new accommodation and a source of income."
Australia's cut to healthcare on Manus Island 'inexplicable', Amnesty says (GA, 18 May 2018). "Group criticises counselling services cut when Manus refugees have one of highest mental illness rates in world." Refugees with physical medical problems needing urgent attention have been left waiting for months or years. IMHO all this is entirely explicable: our government hopes the sick men will either die on Manus, or return to their home countries and die there, out of sight.
As others see us: There's No Escape From Australia's Refugee Gulag (Foreign Policy, 30 April 2018).
Following up on the lies about "African gangs": The truth about crime and ethnicity (The Age, 28 April 2018).
Asylum seekers 'face destitution' as income support and housing cut off (GA, 17 May 2018). "The federal government is taking away income support and housing from up to 100 refugees and asylum seekers from Manus Island and Nauru who are currently in Australia for medical treatment. The group... includes families, elderly people and pregnant women..." Vinnies characterises this cut as part of a general move by the government to divest itself of its legal responsibility to care for refugees, outsourcing that responsibility to charities and community groups. "Most of those targeted this week were families with young children, who were given six weeks to find new accommodation and a source of income."
Australia's cut to healthcare on Manus Island 'inexplicable', Amnesty says (GA, 18 May 2018). "Group criticises counselling services cut when Manus refugees have one of highest mental illness rates in world." Refugees with physical medical problems needing urgent attention have been left waiting for months or years. IMHO all this is entirely explicable: our government hopes the sick men will either die on Manus, or return to their home countries and die there, out of sight.
As others see us: There's No Escape From Australia's Refugee Gulag (Foreign Policy, 30 April 2018).
Following up on the lies about "African gangs": The truth about crime and ethnicity (The Age, 28 April 2018).
