Keywords: Jesuit Refugee Service Australia
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AUSTRALIA
- Maryanne Loughry
- 17 March 2008
The international community reacts rather than anticipates. It was only when hundreds of thousands of people were displaced after
the Bolshevik revolution, that protection mechanisms such as the 1951 Refugee Convention began to be developed.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 25 February 2008
This month Australia's nationhood has been bolstered by Federal Parliament's apology to the Stolen Generations. Kenya is moving in the opposite direction, with a local Jesuit analyst suggesting we could soon be speaking of 'a country that was once Kenya'.
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AUSTRALIA
- Kerry Murphy
- 19 February 2008
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Senator Chris Evans refused a protection visa to convicted people smuggler 'Mr A', even though he was assessed by Immigration as a refugee. Senator Evans had an opportunity to improve upon the previous government's treatment of asylum seekers, but instead reverted to the same hostile rhetoric.
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AUSTRALIA
The outbreak of violence in East Timor April 2006 showed that the UN had not reached first base in its efforts to lay the foundation for a small but robust nation. Now the Rudd Government has provided a template that may be of significant use to those involved with nation building in East Timor.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 13 December 2007
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Maxine McKew knows that the best TV and radio interviewers are those with the greatest ability to listen to their guest. Listening was her winning strategy against the former prime minister in Bennelong.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 12 December 2007
Eighteen months on from the 2006 unrest, Australian and New Zealand troops are still patrolling the streets of Dili. There has been no imperative for them to exchange berets and operate under UN auspices as occurred with the original INTERFET engagement.
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AUSTRALIA
- Kerry Murphy
- 31 October 2007
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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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AUSTRALIA
- David Holdcroft
- 17 October 2007
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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
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CONTRIBUTORS
Beth Doherty currently works for Caritas Australia, the international aid and development agency of the Catholic Church. She has worked in Cambodia with the Jesuit Refugee Service, is a freelance writer for Jesuit Communications, and a former assistant editor of Eureka Street.
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CONTRIBUTORS
- Georgina Pike
- 17 May 2007
Georgina Pike is the Information and Advocacy Officer for the Jesuit Refugee Service (Australia). Her work involves project development, communications, publications and advocacy on policy issues that affect asylum seekers in Australia. She has studied English Literature and Law and lives in Sydney.
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