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Four Corners’ Smuggling Circus Freak Show fails investigative framework

June 8, 2012

“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.…

Greens successfully create inquiry into Indonesian children held in Australian adult prisons

May 11, 2012

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The Australian Greens today announce they’ve successfully created a parliamentary inquiry to examine whether Indonesian children are being held in facilities such as prisons and remand centres where adults are also kept. “There are at least two dozen Indonesians who may be children who have been convicted and jailed alongside Australian adult offenders,” Greens’ immigration and youth affairs spokesperson, Sen. Sarah Hanson-Young, said. “The Attorney-General has announced these 24 cases will be reviewed, and while we welcome that, parliament must…