Australia the Lucky Country unless you are an asylum seeker
Over the parliamentary break, knowing that an expert panel was working on recommendations to break the political deadlock, I was hopeful. Asylum seeker and refugee advocacy groups were making...
View ArticleAs I was saying…..
There are some past articles that I’ve not really closed off. I really should! Each heading below links to the appropriate original article. The Electricity Default This was finally satisfactorily...
View ArticleLive export or asylum seekers?
I’m really not ready to write about the 4 Corners program which so graphically revealed the conditions on Manus Island and Nauru, the concentration camp conditions we are sending asylum seekers into,...
View ArticleMalcolm Fraser has called for a Royal Commission
Malcolm Fraser has called for a Royal Commission into “Australia’s management of offshore asylum seeker processing”: in other words, a Royal Commission into the Australian Department of Immigration and...
View ArticleGoodies, baddies, wimps: where are the ADULTS?
Perhaps the adults are actually in Cambodia, because Australia’s supply seems to have run out! Would somebody out there like to explain, with supporting evidence, why Australia deems it appropriate to...
View ArticleJulian Burnside is calling for our support
Yesterday I received the following email from GetUp! If you are not already connected with GetUp! please consider answering Julian Burnwside‘s call to write, write, write to asylum seekers. Julian also...
View ArticleManus bothers me – it should bother you too
The media has been diligently reporting on the Manus Island situation. The new Minister has castigated the media for publishing false reports. Yet the Minister has provided no proof the reports are...
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