Keywords: Immigration Department
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AUSTRALIA
- Brian Toohey
- 09 January 2008
1 Comment
Terrorism
involves the ancient crime of murder. Dr Mohamed Haneef is not charged
with murdering anyone, nor involvement in any murder. The ministerial
prerogative exercised by Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews should not
exist. From 26 July 2007.
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AUSTRALIA
- David Rosen
- 13 December 2007
4 Comments
A recent series of raids by the US Department of Homeland Security signals a new era of anti-immigrant sentiment in the country. This is rationalised by a false association of undocumented immigrants with the 'war on terror'.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 29 November 2007
The power of the State can be exercised capriciously and unaccountably when the “Don’t ask; don’t tell” approach to government is immune from parliamentary, judicial or public scrutiny. It is the task of lawyers to make it more difficult for politicians to take this approach.
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AUSTRALIA
- Kerry Murphy
- 31 October 2007
1 Comment
ALP Immigration Policy includes both change and continuity. It gives more priority to teaching English over testing, but there's still too much reliance on ministerial discretion rather than the judicial system.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Andrew Hamilton
- 25 October 2007
1 Comment
Compared to that on Nauru, the Christmas Island detention facility might seem to be surrounded by calm seas. But it is exposed by distance, and if a storm of government hostility to asylum seekers blows again, the processes of determining claims there appear to leave asylum seekers dangerously exposed.
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AUSTRALIA
- David Holdcroft
- 17 October 2007
6 Comments
Is Australia's refugee resettlement program primarily intended to help asylum seekers, or assist Australia's economy and nation-building? We need to ask on which set of values we want to base our society.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 19 September 2007
4 Comments
The Howard Government must be given credit for increasing the size of our migration program, including the refugee and humanitarian component. But the deliberations of civil society should provide a fair go for all refugees, including those who arrive by boat without a visa.
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AUSTRALIA
- Kerry Murphy
- 12 September 2007
2 Comments
In Dr Haneef's case, it appears that no attempt was made to provide this 'natural justice' process as recommended by Commonwealth Ombudsman in February 2007.
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AUSTRALIA
- Brian Toohey
- 25 July 2007
8 Comments
Terrorism involves the ancient crime of murder. Dr Mohamed Haneef is not charged with murdering anyone, nor involvement in any murder. The ministerial prerogative exercised by Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews should not exist.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Andrew Hamilton
- 27 June 2007
3 Comments
Australia's treatment of refugees has been out of the headlines for some months, perhaps due to changes in the Department after the Cornelia Rau scandal. But despite some improvements, Australian refugee policy remains destructive.
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ENVIRONMENT
- David Corlett
- 13 June 2007
5 Comments
Even the skeptics are accepting that climate change is with us. Yet the impact of climate change on the movement of people around the world – usually the poorest – is almost entirely absent from public debate.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Andrew Hamilton
- 05 June 2007
6 Comments
The fate of those who are found not to be refugees, and of those refugees who are not accepted by the United States, will remain one of torment.
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