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A possie in Aussie

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A possie in Aussie · 2Y ago

Abbott grins as asylum seekers are gunned down

On Q&A last night Abbott  said that Afghans who left Afghanistan  were no longer persecuted when they reached Pakistan. Quetta, the city  where most Afghan Hazaras are trying to take shelter, is now the headquarters of the  Taliban who roam the area and shoot Hazaras down in the streets with imp...
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A possie in Aussie · 2Y ago

The asylum seeker TPV: too expensive, too cruel, and it didn’t work

Around 4,500 boatpeople have attempted to seek asylum in Australia since the Labor government was elected about 30 months ago. The Howard government imposed Temporary Protection Visas, which this government has since revoked, with the intention of deterring boat arrivals, reducing people smuggling, ...
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A possie in Aussie · 2Y ago

Boat people scoop! They buy Home Brand Hawaiian pizza

The Brisbane Sunday Mail had a scoop last Sunday – and honoured it with a front page banner headline:  “THEY’RE HERE”: Refugee crisis hits home! As Christmas Island overflows boat people are enjoying shopping trips in Queensland. International news agencies have not yet run with the story, but just ...
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A possie in Aussie · 2Y ago

Canada takes 2,500 more asylum seekers: in Australia Senators worry about ballet classes

The Refugee Council of Australia has recommended that Australia grants an extra 1000 offshore humanitarian visas to refugees from southeast Asia each year, in order to reduce the incentive for people smuggling. There are more than 150,000 refugees currently registered with the UN in south-east Asia,...
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A possie in Aussie · 2Y ago

‘Kevin Rudd’s boats’ are looming, and yet some people just don’t care!

The asylum seeker rhetoric is coming out of the closet, after a remarkably slow awakening, and the Australian is paving the rhetorical road with new nasty labels and malevolent metaphors. Asylum seekers are now ‘Kevin Rudd’s boatpeople’, and the boats are now also ‘Kevin Rudd’s’.  Not only are...
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A possie in Aussie · 2Y ago

Concern that Afghan asylum seekers may stop coming to Australia

Afghan asylum seekers may stop coming to Australia because the United Nations is set to downgrade its refugee guidelines for Afghanistan (see Don’t worry about the boats: UNHCR will stop them). That will mean a loss for both them and for us. The Afghan Hazaras who began to arrive here from 1999 onwa...
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A possie in Aussie · 2Y ago

Are police racist? A Sudanese view

Just as we don’t see our own racism, we don’t see our own culture, and so we learn about these things if at all. (See South Australians know ‘they’ are racist: Racism Survey.) I have been working with Sudanese for four years, and slowly slowly learn more. In recent conversations with police and Suda...
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A possie in Aussie · 2Y ago

South Australians know ‘they’ are racist: Racism Survey

Where there are people, there is racism. And, like bullying in schools, the places that don’t acknowledge its existence in their midst are the ones where it is most likely to blossom. That’s why I think that the finding that South Australians have the highest rate of acknowledgement of racism and An...
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A possie in Aussie · 2Y ago

Sri Lankan asylum seekers in limbo:first video

more about “Al Jazeera English – Asia-Pacific – S…“, posted with vodpod This is the first video available of the group of nearly 240 Sri Lankan asylum seekers who have been stranded in an Indonesian port for five months, since their boat was intercepted by the Indonesia...
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A possie in Aussie · 2Y ago

Outrage? I condemn it as cheap and nasty

I have been having trouble keeping up the momentum for this blog lately. It would be a lot easier for me if I wasn’t trying so hard to present a balanced view (What do you mean, you hadn’t noticed!). Yes, I try to avoid posting out of outrage. Larvatus Prodeo made reference to the ubiquity [...]
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