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Tweet With the images on ABC Four Corners of asylum seekers detained on Nauru and Manus Island fresh in our minds, Dr George Venturini starts a new series on the history and reasons for Australia’s current unfair and illegal refugee policy. (Click...
Tweet Rupert Murdoch’s odd denunciation of the Government’s crackdown on 457 visas shows how utterly out of touch he is with Australia, says former News Ltd executive Rodney E. Lever. RUPERT MURDOCH’S chat with a young reporter...
Tweet A small but vocal group of bigots can congratulate themselves for successfully hijacking a much-needed national discussion on multicultural service provision, writes Dr Chloe Patton. By Dr Chloe Patton THE Joint Standing Committee on Migration’s...
Tweet The Coalition’s immigrations spokesperson Scott Morrison has taken dog-whistling to such an elevated level, Chris Ryan calls him the “dog-bugler”. WHY COALITION IMMIGRATION SPOKESPERSON SCOTT MORRISON IS A RACIST A recent discussion...
Tweet Eight-year-old Mustafa came to Australia on a boat from Afghanistan without his family, and was in Woomera on his own. Marilyn Shepherd tells his sad story. Sarah Hanson-Young with pictures drawn by Nauru children. One caption reads: ”When...
Tweet Philip Ruddock was a dreadful immigration minister — but Chris Bowen makes him seem mild, says refugee advocate Marilyn Shepherd. Well-matched immigration ministers: Philip Ruddock and Chris Bowen. LATE LAST YEAR, the new President...
Tweet Photos have now surfaced of Manus Island immigration detainees. Here, IA provides moving first-hand accounts from them speaking about their appalling conditions — along with more images detailing Australia’s shame. Manus children...
Tweet Marking International Human Rights Day yesterday (10/12/12), Dr Leong Ng explains that there may be many people in Australia today being imprisoned falsely ― psychologically. (Image: Matt Bissett-Johnson.) In Australia, the idea of psychological...
Tweet Robyn Oyeniyi is an Australian and has lived here most of her life ― but getting her husband and family home was a bureaucratic nightmare. Robyn Oyeniyi During 2010 to 2011, I fought a mammoth battle against the Department of Immigration...
Tweet Racism doesn’t have to be open and evident, says 17-year-old Ethiopian immigrant Ben Kroone, it can be harbored inside and manifested through actions and words. (Image courtesy: NSW Reconciliation Council) AS THE ELECTION year draws...
