Opposition Immigration spokesman Scott Morrison announced a radical shift in the Coalition’s refugee policy last week in response to the record number of boat arrivals and subsequent overcrowding of Australia’s detention centres. While presenting the long-standing coalition policy of turning back the boats and reintroducing offshore processing and TPVs as the “the first solution,” Morison
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After nine years of fighting in Afghanistan there is growing recognition that whatever semblance of victory is still possible will not be achieved militarily. In recognition of this reality, NATO forces and the Karzai Government have for months been engaged in talks with a ‘senior Taliban leader’ in the hope of attaining a political resolution
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At the ASRC as a human rights lawyer I have witnessed first hand thousands of times over, the human cost of countries whose government believe that they are above the law and should not be subject to the oversight of their own courts. I have sat face to face with men and women who have
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It’s the 19th of January 2002 and there is news of 58 asylum seekers in Woomera having sewed their lips together in protest of the delays in processing their refugee applications. We fast forward to the 19th of November 2010 and news breaks of 10 people seeking asylum who have sewed their lips together on
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Last week the ASRC published a blog revealing how the The Sunday Telegraph was fuelling myths that asylum seekers were unlawful queue jumpers who cheat Australia’s otherwise generous and orderly refugee program. The Telegraph was at it again last weekend (06 Nov 2010) with an article by Piers Akerman who wrote, “Gillard has been forced
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