Keywords: People Smugglers
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AUSTRALIA
- Tony Smith
- 12 December 2007
A new government enjoys public goodwill as it tackles a residue of issues, resentments and injustices. How quickly this dissipates is a measure of the sincerity with which the new government operates. Hopes are high for Rudd Labor.
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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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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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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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INTERNATIONAL
- Georgina Pike
- 04 April 2007
1 Comment
Georgina Pike on the plight of the Sri Lankan asylum seekers who have been sent to Christmas Island.
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AUSTRALIA
- David Corlett
- 02 April 2007
4 Comments
What matters is not where the 83 Sri Lankan asylum seekers will be processed – Christmas Island or Nauru – but the nature of their reception and processing.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Kent Rosenthal
- 10 July 2006
5 Comments
Living conditions in Ouanaminthe, a ‘town’ of around 100,000 inhabitants amount to an undeclared war on the poor. There’s a lack of services, which makes Ouanaminthe a gathering place for human traffickers, smugglers and corrupt authorities ready to profit from people desperate to leave for the Dominican Republic.
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AUSTRALIA
- Arnold Zable
- 04 July 2006
Refugee stories told by Arnold Zable.
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EDUCATION
Educator Tom Mann recalls his experiences of working with children in detention
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AUSTRALIA
- Frank Brennan
- 14 May 2006
Father Frank Brennan discusses the Howard Government's approach to the issue of asylum seeker detention off-shore.
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INFORMATION
- Lachlan Harris, Joan Healy
- 11 May 2006
Letters from Lachlan Harris and Joan Healy
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