This is a follow up interview with Lisa Caripis, who Victoria Police to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal over their refusal to destroy surveillance footage of her taken at a peaceful protest in 2010. You can read the interviews with her before the trial here and just after the trial here. The Tribunal handed down […]
By Professor Sarah Joseph. This article is part of our February 2013 focus on Religion and Human Rights. In response to the ongoing cascade of accusations and evidence of systemic and decades long child abuse, the federal government finally announced a Royal Commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse in November 2012. One possible recommendation is already being mooted, […]
By Sam Ryan. Almost 70 years ago Albert Camus wrote that “goodwill can cause almost as much damage as ill-will if it is not enlightened” – a sentiment it seems that could well apply to the Australian government’s approach to Indigenous affairs. Reading A Decision to Discriminate: Aboriginal Disempowerment in the Northern Territory, published by Concerned […]
By Dana Affleck. This article is part of our December 2012 and January 2013 focus on Asylum Seekers. Hassan is a little younger than me and we have the same cynical sense of humour. When I first met him early last year, he wasn’t very friendly. He just gave me a nod of acknowledgement and a half […]
By Dana Affleck. This article is part of our December 2012 and January 2013 focus on Asylum Seekers. On the black market in Indonesia, there is a high demand for people smugglers. Refugees desperate to escape their persecutors, protect their family and seek freedom are in search of a smuggler who has the key to all that […]
By Jane Hodge and Jana Favero. This article is part of our December 2012 and January 2013 focus on Asylum Seekers. Last year the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship Chris Bowen announced that the “no advantage” principle would extend to asylum seekers arriving by boat who are released into the community on bridging visas while they wait […]
By Julian Burnside AO QC. This article is part of our December 2012 and January 2013 focus on Asylum Seekers. Since about 1998, a significant proportion of boat people coming to Australia have been Hazaras from Afghanistan or Pakistan. On 26 August 2001, the Norwegian cargo ship MV Tampa rescued the passengers of a small boat […]
Given the prominence of the issue of asylum seekers over the past 18 months in particular, we regularly broke from our dedicated monthly themes to bring you the major developments in asylum seeker policy and debate (collected here). Now, we’ve dedicated a full two months of content to it over December 2012 and January 2013. […]
By Melissa Reid. This article is part of our December 2012 and January 2013 focus on Asylum Seekers. Asylum seekers. Refugees. Boat people. Illegal refugees. Queue jumpers. The Other. There seem to be all these different people flocking to Australia to steal “our” riches, corrupt “our” culture, take “our” jobs and plunder “our” taxes. Why do they […]
By William Pitt. This poem is part of our December 2012 and January 2013 focus on Asylum Seekers. Step – step – step –step – the world is much too large; I think I can see the end of land but there’s always more and more; why not sit down and count my thoughts? How wonderful to […]
By Elizabeth Greenhalgh. This article is part of our December 2012 and January 2013 focus on Asylum Seekers. The last decade has seen an unprecedented shift in policies and responses addressing the arrival of asylum seekers in Australia. Despite being a signatory to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, punitive government responses aiming to […]
By Greg Pritchard. This poem is part of our December 2012 and January 2013 focus on Asylum Seekers. From where I am lying I can see my sister’s leg Like a long stemmed rose against marble My ears are ringing and all I hear is music The sun is warm and bathes us in orange light […]
