Refugee Update
Mar. 3rd, 2016 11:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamer_easyPeter Dutton ignores plea to release woman, 70, from detention (GA, 3 March 2016)
Greens Introduce Bill To Outlaw Placing Kids In Immigration Detention (Huffington Post, 3 March 2016) "The bill was introduced and read a first time on Wednesday. A second reading was moved, and will occur on a date to be determined." (IIUC something similar was tried without success in November last year.)
From Free the Children NAURU: This moving reply letter was written by a female asylum seeker to an Australian high school student in 2015.
Catching up on links:
An alternative to offshore detention (Julian Burnside's blog, 4 November 2015)
Refugees, the most enterprising migrants in Australia (Quartz, 8 Seotember 2015)
Julian Burnside outlines plan to save budget billions but inject money into regions (The Courier, 23 August 2015)
We Need To Move Beyond Rhetoric To Regional Solutions For Refugees (New Matilda, 23 July 2015)
Germany: Where the refugee flood is a solution, not a problem (The Globe and Mail, 23 May 2015)
Australians Still Confused About Proportion Of Asylum Seekers Who Are 'Genuine' Refugees (New Matilda, 15 April 2015)
ETA: Geelong needs to be focus of this new exciting age (Geelong Advertiser, 17 September 2015) Opinion piece on the advantages of welcoming refugees.
Greens Introduce Bill To Outlaw Placing Kids In Immigration Detention (Huffington Post, 3 March 2016) "The bill was introduced and read a first time on Wednesday. A second reading was moved, and will occur on a date to be determined." (IIUC something similar was tried without success in November last year.)
From Free the Children NAURU: This moving reply letter was written by a female asylum seeker to an Australian high school student in 2015.
Catching up on links:
An alternative to offshore detention (Julian Burnside's blog, 4 November 2015)
Refugees, the most enterprising migrants in Australia (Quartz, 8 Seotember 2015)
Julian Burnside outlines plan to save budget billions but inject money into regions (The Courier, 23 August 2015)
We Need To Move Beyond Rhetoric To Regional Solutions For Refugees (New Matilda, 23 July 2015)
Germany: Where the refugee flood is a solution, not a problem (The Globe and Mail, 23 May 2015)
Australians Still Confused About Proportion Of Asylum Seekers Who Are 'Genuine' Refugees (New Matilda, 15 April 2015)
ETA: Geelong needs to be focus of this new exciting age (Geelong Advertiser, 17 September 2015) Opinion piece on the advantages of welcoming refugees.
