Refugee Update
Apr. 12th, 2015 04:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamer_easyA few different things.
Nine refugees, plus six asylum seekers, landed on Christmas Island in March, but were sent back to Indonesia.
The Migration Amendment (Maintaining the Good Order of Immigration Detention Facilities) Bill 2015 "would give the federal government - and private contractors managing the centres - a level of immunity for personal injury claims that is not even available in relation to the actions of police officers." Essentially it would make lawful the lawlessness already present in detention centres when it comes to the treatment of asylum seekers.
The government is negotiating with Iran in hopes of getting them to accept Iranian asylum seekers unsuccessful in their bid for refugee status.
Transfield Services, who run the detention centres on Manus and Nauru, "has warned staff they can be fired as a result of who their friends are on Facebook or who follows them on Twitter and has forbidden them from joining political parties or churches that oppose offshore processing. It has also cautioned them not to 'embarrass' the company or the government or reveal how asylum seekers are treated." Too late: we know.
Federal Government to spend $4 million on TV drama to deter would-be asylum seekers. Why don't they just put together a tape of news items?
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has admitted that boats continue to leave Indonesia for Australia, but that only his government can keep them "largely stopped" because "any other government, I suspect, would quickly succumb to the cries of the human rights lawyers". Shadow Minister for Immigration Richard Marles remarked that "It is astonishing that human rights has become an enemy of this government." (Until the ALP changes its policies, of course, human rights are also its enemy.)
A review into Morrison's immigration excesses: "Scott Morrison's determination to cement his reputation as the hard man of the Abbott Government led him to repeatedly ignore due process and seize on unverified information coming out of Nauru and Manus Island."
What Australia, and the Liberal Party, used to be like: The Vietnamese refugee with so much to thank former prime minister Malcolm Fraser for
Criminals awaiting deportation at Maribyrnong Immigration Detention Centre have threatened and assaulted asylum seekers. An inquiry into brutality at the centre was announced in February.
Nine refugees, plus six asylum seekers, landed on Christmas Island in March, but were sent back to Indonesia.
The Migration Amendment (Maintaining the Good Order of Immigration Detention Facilities) Bill 2015 "would give the federal government - and private contractors managing the centres - a level of immunity for personal injury claims that is not even available in relation to the actions of police officers." Essentially it would make lawful the lawlessness already present in detention centres when it comes to the treatment of asylum seekers.
The government is negotiating with Iran in hopes of getting them to accept Iranian asylum seekers unsuccessful in their bid for refugee status.
Transfield Services, who run the detention centres on Manus and Nauru, "has warned staff they can be fired as a result of who their friends are on Facebook or who follows them on Twitter and has forbidden them from joining political parties or churches that oppose offshore processing. It has also cautioned them not to 'embarrass' the company or the government or reveal how asylum seekers are treated." Too late: we know.
Federal Government to spend $4 million on TV drama to deter would-be asylum seekers. Why don't they just put together a tape of news items?
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has admitted that boats continue to leave Indonesia for Australia, but that only his government can keep them "largely stopped" because "any other government, I suspect, would quickly succumb to the cries of the human rights lawyers". Shadow Minister for Immigration Richard Marles remarked that "It is astonishing that human rights has become an enemy of this government." (Until the ALP changes its policies, of course, human rights are also its enemy.)
A review into Morrison's immigration excesses: "Scott Morrison's determination to cement his reputation as the hard man of the Abbott Government led him to repeatedly ignore due process and seize on unverified information coming out of Nauru and Manus Island."
What Australia, and the Liberal Party, used to be like: The Vietnamese refugee with so much to thank former prime minister Malcolm Fraser for
Criminals awaiting deportation at Maribyrnong Immigration Detention Centre have threatened and assaulted asylum seekers. An inquiry into brutality at the centre was announced in February.
