Refugee Update
May. 5th, 2016 10:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamer_easyManus Island detainees launch High Court bid to be moved to Australia (GA, 5 May 2016)
Manus Island: Australian and PNG officials meet to develop 'road map' to close centre (ABC, 4 May 2016)
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton says that refugee advocates are to blame for the self-immolations on Nauru. Sure - just like those Save the Children staff told kids to make up stories about sexual abuse. Right, Peter?
'Asylum seeker boat' arrives in the Australian territory of the Cocos Islands (GA, 3 May 2016) Poor devils got within half a kilometre of shore.
New Manus and Nauru operator signals plans to quit detention centre business (GA, 30 April 2016): "Ferrovial Services, which owns more than 50% of ASX-listed Broadspectrum, formerly Transfield, says these services were not a core part of the valuation."
The winners and losers from Scott Morrison's 2016 budget (GA, 3 May 2016): "Four mainland detention centres are to close, and there’s some extra cash for unaccompanied child refugees, but the big, difficult stuff – ie Nauru and Manus – doesn’t feature." | Northern Territory Chief Minister Adam Giles says government wrong to close Darwin detention centre (GA, 4 May 2016) This is Wickham Point, notorious for self-harm and suicide attempts. | Federal Budget offers no new hope for world’s refugees (Refugee Council of Australia press release, 3 May 2016)
I've almost finished Eichmann in Jerusalem (SPOILER: he dies). In these summaries, I don't usually mention people speaking out against Australia's detention regime, such as Labor MP Melissa Parke, campaigner Shen Narayanasamy, and documentary-maker Eva Orner. Maybe I should change that. Hannah Arendt writes:
Australia can hardly be said to be "under conditions of terror", even with the extraordinary threat of jail for speaking the truth; individuals who stood up to the Nazis lost their lives. Nonetheless, Arendt's lesson applies to us as well - it's the only hope we've got.
Manus Island: Australian and PNG officials meet to develop 'road map' to close centre (ABC, 4 May 2016)
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton says that refugee advocates are to blame for the self-immolations on Nauru. Sure - just like those Save the Children staff told kids to make up stories about sexual abuse. Right, Peter?
'Asylum seeker boat' arrives in the Australian territory of the Cocos Islands (GA, 3 May 2016) Poor devils got within half a kilometre of shore.
New Manus and Nauru operator signals plans to quit detention centre business (GA, 30 April 2016): "Ferrovial Services, which owns more than 50% of ASX-listed Broadspectrum, formerly Transfield, says these services were not a core part of the valuation."
The winners and losers from Scott Morrison's 2016 budget (GA, 3 May 2016): "Four mainland detention centres are to close, and there’s some extra cash for unaccompanied child refugees, but the big, difficult stuff – ie Nauru and Manus – doesn’t feature." | Northern Territory Chief Minister Adam Giles says government wrong to close Darwin detention centre (GA, 4 May 2016) This is Wickham Point, notorious for self-harm and suicide attempts. | Federal Budget offers no new hope for world’s refugees (Refugee Council of Australia press release, 3 May 2016)
I've almost finished Eichmann in Jerusalem (SPOILER: he dies). In these summaries, I don't usually mention people speaking out against Australia's detention regime, such as Labor MP Melissa Parke, campaigner Shen Narayanasamy, and documentary-maker Eva Orner. Maybe I should change that. Hannah Arendt writes:
"For the lesson of such stories is simple and within everybody's grasp. Politically speaking, it is that under conditions of terror most people will comply but some people will not, just as the lesson of the countries to which the Final Solution was proposed is that 'it could happen' in most places but it did not happen everywhere. Humanly speaking, no more is required, and no more can reasonably be asked, for this planet to remain a place fit for human habitation." (Italics in original)
Australia can hardly be said to be "under conditions of terror", even with the extraordinary threat of jail for speaking the truth; individuals who stood up to the Nazis lost their lives. Nonetheless, Arendt's lesson applies to us as well - it's the only hope we've got.
