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Blaming refugees for people smugglers’ tricks not the solution: Greens

June 8, 2012

Desperate people will keep risking everything they have and flee for Australia via leaky boats if they feel they have no other alternative because of limited protection options, the Australian Greens said today. “In the rush to punish people smugglers, we mustn’t lose sight of the bigger picture and the causes that force people to run for their lives,” Greens’ immigration spokesperson, Sen. Sarah Hanson-Young, said. “People will continue fleeing from war, torture or persecution and will always take their…

Four Corners’ Smuggling Circus Freak Show fails investigative framework

June 8, 2012

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“Four Corners has now well and truly established its own “me too” Canberra-derived national discourse of Evil Smugglers’ stories, a media freak show that started with commercial television serials, cheapskate sensationalist so-called “investigations” with overblown claims, a must-see freak show that has now also become established at the ABC – all of them failing to address how Canberra’s manipulative avoidance of people in transit in Indonesia is building, sponsoring and sustaining people smuggling as an industry,” WA Human Rights group…

It’s the Government, not the People Smugglers that has Blood on its Hands

June 8, 2012

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The Four Corners’ people smuggling program has only added to the demonisation that surrounds the media and politicians’ portrayal of people smugglers. Rather than exposing a trans-national criminal network, Four Corners has revealed, what is so often the case, that people arranging boats for asylum seekers to come to Australia have often been refugees themselves, motivated by concerns for the safety of their families or asylum seekers from the same country. Ten of 16 people convicted for people smuggling between 2001 and 2006 were indeed refugees themselves.…

International Refugee Day Celebration

June 6, 2012

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Past Events

Be part of the International Refugee Day celebration at the Brunswick Town Hall on the 16th of June, 2012 from 7pm. Singers include: Ambasa, Osman Abdulrahim, Samoul and Hakim. ticket price: $30 singles/$50 couples.

Resolution at Victorian ALP State Conference calls for appeal process for asylum seekers with adverse security assessments

May 23, 2012

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Urgency Motion: Rights of Appeal to adverse ASIO security decisions for Refugees & Asylum Seekers in indefinite detention. The lack of appeal rights and merits review of refugees with adverse ASIO assessment decisions means genuine refugees, men, women and children, are caught in a legal black hole. They are effectively facing incarceration for the rest of their lives, simply for seeking protection as refugees in Australia. Independent review and appeal are basic principles of modern justice. ASIO, like all decision…