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A new government enjoys public goodwill as it tackles a residue of issues, resentments and injustices. How quickly this dissipates is a measure of the sincerity with which the new government operates. Hopes are high for Rudd Labor.
The power of the State can be exercised capriciously and unaccountably when the “Don’t ask; don’t tell” approach to government is immune from parliamentary, judicial or public scrutiny. It is the task of lawyers to make it more difficult for politicians to take this approach.
The Howard Government must be given credit for increasing the size of our migration program, including the refugee and humanitarian component. But the deliberations of civil society should provide a fair go for all refugees, including those who arrive by boat without a visa.
The fate of those who are found not to be refugees, and of those refugees who are not accepted by the United States, will remain one of torment.
Georgina Pike on the plight of the Sri Lankan asylum seekers who have been sent to Christmas Island.
What matters is not where the 83 Sri Lankan asylum seekers will be processed – Christmas Island or Nauru – but the nature of their reception and processing.
Living conditions in Ouanaminthe, a ‘town’ of around 100,000 inhabitants amount to an undeclared war on the poor. There’s a lack of services, which makes Ouanaminthe a gathering place for human traffickers, smugglers and corrupt authorities ready to profit from people desperate to leave for the Dominican Republic.
Refugee stories told by Arnold Zable.
Educator Tom Mann recalls his experiences of working with children in detention
Father Frank Brennan discusses the Howard Government's approach to the issue of asylum seeker detention off-shore.
Letters from Lachlan Harris and Joan Healy
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