Keywords: Border Protection
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AUSTRALIA
- Kerry Murphy
- 28 April 2011
26 Comments
The Department of Immigration and Citizenship say they can't tell me anything. The Inspector General of Intelligence and Security tells me to contact DIAC. As an immigration lawyer I find this frustrating. How much worse must it be for asylum seekers kept in detention with no end in sight?
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INTERNATIONAL
- Susan Metcalfe
- 07 April 2011
22 Comments
Paul Keating said: 'Governments that wander along uncertain about where they are, looking over their shoulder, invariably get run over themselves.' If Labor doesn't stop looking over its shoulder on asylum seekers, it will miss another opportunity to stand up for what it says it believes in.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Kerry Murphy
- 22 March 2011
6 Comments
The reintroduction of the Complementary Protection Bill to Parliament this week ought be welcomed. Given the protests in Christmas Island, it is clear that the mandatory detention policy is also overdue for reform.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 09 March 2011
53 Comments
There are homosexual persons who enter into loving, faithful and committed relationships. It is difficult to characterise a law that gives non-discriminatory protection to such couples as 'so harmful to the common good as to be gravely immoral' as Benedict has previously done.
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MEDIA
- Moira Rayner
- 07 March 2011
12 Comments
The girl at the centre of the ongoing AFL sex scandal presents herself as a woman scorned. In truth she's a child in need of protection. Child protection laws once enabled police to ask a court to have a girl made a ward of state if she appeared to be 'in moral danger'.
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AUSTRALIA
- Moira Rayner
- 29 November 2010
16 Comments
Nobody pretends child maltreatment is easily prevented. Yet we are passionate about the evils of same-sex marriage. Wouldn't it be great if we put that energy into providing what children need: a family environment of love and understanding where they can achieve their potential.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Kim Huynh
- 17 November 2010
7 Comments
My father would harbour a modern sense of can-do-ism and irreverence for tradition throughout his life. It was his vision of a new and better world along with the conviction that his sons had no future in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, that drove us on to that horribly overcrowded boat in 1979.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Kerry Murphy
- 20 October 2010
7 Comments
'Karim' is calling every second day now. His protection visa application was lodged six months ago and he was interviewed four months later. He was brutally tortured in his home country and has lived with debilitating trauma ever since. He now thinks his case will be refused because of the long delays in processing.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Kerry Murphy
- 20 August 2010
5 Comments
According to the Coalition, 'bad refugees' who come on boats take places that could otherwise go to 'good
refugees' who wait patiently in camps. Labelling refugees as 'good' or 'bad' according to how they
arrive in Australia reflects an insular opinion that does not reflect
what is happening worldwide.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 05 August 2010
6 Comments
Mother Fish recreates the journey by sea of a group of Vietnamese refugees. During an election campaign where both major parties are trying to win votes
with prejudicial rhetoric about 'border protection', a bit of truth and
humanity is just what's needed.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 21 June 2010
14 Comments
As the election lather on the asylum seeker issue continues, let's ask, 'Why is
it right to treat the honest, unvisaed boat person more harshly than
the visaed airplane passenger who fails to declare their intention to
apply for asylum?'
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INTERNATIONAL
Abbott's 'red arrows' asulym seeker ad is reminiscent of the 'reds under the beds' hysteria of the '50s and '60s. With an election on the way, the immigration policy reform agenda has been put aside as both Government and Opposition harden their policies.
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