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Hideous Australian Government to transfer all asylum seekers offshore
by Grande Reffobuster	2006-04-13 2:16 PM +0800
More offensive, inhumane, extreme, alarming and disappointing shit from the fucking government...
The Federal Government will introduce legislation so that asylum seekers who make it to the Australian mainland will be transferred to offshore immigration centres for assessment. Immigration Minister Senator Amanda Vanstone says it is essentially an extension of Howard's "Pacific solution". Vanstone says people found to be refugees will be jailed on remote offshore islands until they are resettled in a third country. The reaction from refugee and human rights advocates to the Federal Government's proposals for dealing with any flow of Papuan asylum seekers has been furious. The policy has been described as extreme, alarming and disappointing. Refugee lawyers had been expecting the Government to give Indonesia a say in the Immigration Department's process of determining asylum seekers' claims. But expanding the regulations that allow thousands of islands off the mainland to be excised form Australia's migration zone, to deport asylum seekers who arrive on the mainland to offshore centres like Christmas Island or Manus Island where Australian migration law does apply, has taken some by surprise. Dr Graham Tom from Amnesty International says excising territory is a very retrograde step. "It is a surprise, given the way that the 43 Papuans were assessed when they arrived," he said. "The fact that they had their cases assessed on their merits, the fact that the Department believed that they would face persecution and they were granted protection in this country, did send a very clear signal that all refugees would be treated equally, that they would each have their cases assessed on their merits and this was very positive and the Australian Government made it very clear that's what it was going to do to all governments concerned. "So to then turn around now and try and placate foreign powers from which individuals are fleeing was a very surprising step and an extremely disappointing step." Dr Tom is concerned about the signal the Government is sending. "To send people to a country to be processed where they don't get to have the full benefits of the refugee status determination system here is clearly a penalty," he said. International law 'breach' Amnesty says sending asylum seekers to offshore processing centres is better than allowing a foreign power have a say in refugee claims being assessed in Australia because that is less likely to put lives at risk. But the human rights organisation says it still puts Australia in breach its international obligations. David Manne from the Melbourne-based Refugee and Immigration Legal Centre backs Amnesty's stance. "This is an extreme and alarming development and a radical and very dangerous over-reaction," he said. "Effectively the Australian Government is signalling that its prepared to be pressured by a foreign government to rewrite our own laws and our commitment to basic fundamental protection of vulnerable people who come to our country. "It says that we are not prepared to abide by the basic and fundamental rights that apply under the refugees convention to people who come to our country. "People have a clear cut fundamental right to seek asylum in Australia and to have their case for protection fully and properly heard in Australia. "This proposal says that the whole of Australia has become a dehumanised zone ... where basic fundamental human rights do not apply." Source ABC


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No borders
by Survival	2006-04-13 3:23 PM +0800
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 2006/04/13 - 4:46pm. We are cattle to the illuminati, just cattle to be culled. These off shore Islands are just walls put up by the illuminati capitalist- neo-cons afraid of overpopulation and common wealth. Who are the powers that be that put up walls to prevent welcoming strangers in desperation who are fleeing their homeland for their survival? Imagine if the Aboriginals had done that they would have been shot on sight! Actually they were shot on sight without doing anything! Link here
Sameol
by Craig	2006-04-13 9:25 PM +0800
Hows that! Howard just made australia invisible. If only the original inhabitants of this great land had such powers. Link here
Oh, irony
by Mar Bucknell	2006-04-14 2:20 AM +0800
Indonesia will decide who comes into Australia and the circumstances in which they come here. Little bastard Johnny has done something I previously thought impossible: he is even more a lickspittle toady to Javanese imperialism in the Indonesian region than that loathsome offence of a human being, Gareth Evans, ever was. Link here
From the West
by Jerome	2006-04-14 9:49 AM +0800
Somebody wrote a letter to the editor recently and it was to the effect of - You're absolutely right Graeme Campbell, multiculturalism does'nt work. There were none of the problems we're experiencing now, before 1788! HA! Awesome! Link here
Well that just shows a shallow insight into Aboriginal culture
by Larry	2006-04-14 10:11 AM +0800
The continent of Australia had / has over 600 Aboriginal nations. Each of these nations had varying culture. The difference between an Aboriginal nation in the area today known as the Kimberley's and that of an Aboriginal nation in the area known as Gippsland in Victoria was vastly different. Aboriginal nations like all nations throughout Australia were at one time or another at war. Nations allied together as nations in the modern world do today to fight, kill and overtake resources. To suggest that all Aboriginal people were / are some sort of monoculture is offensive, stupid and racist. Link here
Hi Larry
by ER	2006-04-14 1:40 PM +0800
Who is suggesting this? Link here
Answer
by Larry	2006-04-14 1:55 PM +0800
The person who wrote to The West Australian rebutting Graeme Campbell. See Jerome's post. Link here
I agree that Graeme Campbell is indeed offensive, stupid and racist
by ER	2006-04-14 2:02 PM +0800
But I really don't think that Jerome is suggesting that "all Aboriginal people were / are some sort of monoculture" I think you're putting words into his mouth there mate. Link here
Now your putting words in my mouth.
by Larry	2006-04-14 2:06 PM +0800
I did not say that Jerome is suggesting that. Link here
Apologies Larry
by ER	2006-04-14 2:10 PM +0800
I misunderstood your comment. Link here
You guys are kinda cute
by john	2006-04-14 10:08 PM +0800
The way you debate - that is ! Someone said to me I should not ass-u-me cause it makes an ass out of of u and me ! Link here
Offensive + Stupid =
by john	2006-04-14 10:22 PM +0800
Ignorant but 'racist' ? that is debatable. Link here
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