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  • CARTOON

    Cycling and recycling Nauru

    • Fiona Katauskas
    • 15 June 2011
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  • CARTOON

    Malaysia Express

    • Fiona Katauskas
    • 08 June 2011
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  • AUSTRALIA

    How not to treat asylum seeker kids

    • Kerry Murphy
    • 06 June 2011
    9 Comments

    Woomera, 2001. It's late, and we've been working for days. I give the detainees' children highlighters to draw with; unknown to me, one of them draws on the office wall. The next day an officer from the camp accosts me. 'This is damaging government property. Someone will have to pay for it.'

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Labor worse than Howard on asylum seekers

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 23 May 2011
    43 Comments

    Labor has gone beyond the worst features of the Howard Government by betraying the central principle underlying any ethical refugee policy. One can only imagine what the Coalition Government that will most likely follow the next election will build on this abrogation of principle.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Good news about the Malaysia solution

    • Caz Coleman
    • 13 May 2011
    5 Comments

    Just as it should be the role of lawyers and refugee advocates to analyse the disadvantages and possible unlawful elements of this announcement, we must also consider the opportunities. The Malaysian agreement may also deliver good news for some asylum seekers and the refugee sector.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Why Malaysia is no solution

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 12 May 2011
    27 Comments

    Anne Frank described a refugee as a parcel that is sent from post office to post office. The 'Malaysian solution' is like solving the problem of overloaded post offices by sending incoming parcels straight to the shredder.

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  • CARTOON

    'Malaysia solution' winners and losers

    • Fiona Katauskas
    • 11 May 2011

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