Since the reinstatement of offshore processing for asylum seekers was announced in August 2012, there has been much debate around whether the government’s ‘circuit breaker plan to reduce the current surge in irregular migration to Australia’ has been successful. What seems most notably absent from all political discourse currently around offshore processing, is the lack
Read moreThe man who took his life last night in Villawood was a refugee waiting for a security check. He had been through the rigorous Australian refugee process and found to be a refugee to whom Australia owed protection. Rest in peace Shooty – your death will not be in vain. Why was he still in
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The plan to detain asylum seekers for processing on Nauru and Manus Island has failed even before the first detainee has arrived. The belief that this policy could be effective was built upon the false premise that the first ‘Pacific Solution’, implemented under the Howard government was effective in deterring boat arrivals. In fact boat
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The airing of SBS’s ‘Go Back To Where You Came From’ this week has injected a much needed dose of reality and perspective into a debate dominated by sound-bites, spin and misinformation. The program has taken 6 ‘celebrity’ guests and flung them into the very real situations faced by asylum seekers in some of the
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