[Publisher’s Note: Lowenstein also discusses Transfield/Wilson Security in his book disaster capitalism and supports a divestment campaign against them.… Go to Article
Category: Refugees
Protected: Does the Left have community?
Iraq’s unity and equality for all Iraqis
Amerli was surrounded by the non-Islamic non-Staters for 3 months with 9 year old Turkman kids and their mothers bearing kalashnikovs to aid the men defending Amerli.… Go to Article
How America made ISIS
Whatever your politics, you’re not likely to feel great about America right now. After all, there’s Ferguson (the whole world was watching!),… Go to Article
Hamid Kehazaei dying in Brisbane hospital
Another beautiful young man losing his life in Manus Death Camp.
A simple skin infection turning to septicaemia because treatment denied until too late.… Go to Article
Humanitarian aid, arms trade and refugees.
This is the story of how the Syrian war reached out 5,000 miles across the globe and destroyed at least 29 Lebanese lives in the Indian Ocean.… Go to Article
Changed “Terror War” strategies?
Profitable armaments industries assure that wars generated by the great powers proliferate one after another and are preferred to diplomacy and justice in resolving conflicts.
Gaza: the dark tunnels …
Grandmothers Against Detention of Refugee Children
OFFICIAL PUBLIC LAUNCH
1:45pm for 2pm launch
Saturday, 6 September
On the steps of St. Paul’s Cathedral.
We will all wear purple scarves.… Go to Article
153 human beings held incommunicado
- MR MERKEL:
Can I say this, your Honour? If your Honour could possibly give us the thoughts that your Honour had in writing so we can start working together on those forthwith – – – - HAYNE J:
That is what junior solicitors are for, Mr Merkel, to scribble down what the judge said, but, yes, all right, you can have a rather scrappy draft on terms.
Wretched of the Earth
Europeans, you must open this book and enter into it. After a few steps in the darkness you will see strangers gathered around a fire; come close, and listen, for they are talking of the destiny they will mete out to your trading-centres and to the hired soldiers who defend them.… Go to Article
BFU presents REFUGEE RIGHTS: panel discussion and community Q&A
Dear BFUers,
As you probably know, refugee policy is a fiercely contested field of Australian political discourse. The major parties use politicised, dehumanised language to talk about some of the most marginalised and vulnerable people in the world – those who are seeking asylum.… Go to Article
Refugee Rights Rally – 12 April 2021
Dear refugee supporters,
For some months we have been planning a refugee rights rally for Saturday, 12th April. Several groups have been involved, including Amnesty International, Australian Lawyers for Human Rights, The Greens, Labor for Refugees, representatives of the Hazara and Tamil communities, as well as the Refugee Action Collective.… Go to Article
March in March — Brisbane
The March in March was a festive vote of no confidence in the Abbott government. (Refer https://www.facebook.com/events/501397403315324/)
The Brisbane event is part of the national March in March movement and began in Matthew Donovan’s bedroom.… Go to Article
Stephen Keim SC on how the bikie laws deny the right to work
Stephen Keim SC spoke at the meeting on ‘Punitive Populism and the neoliberal agenda of the Newman government’.
He spoke about how some of the provisions of the anti-association laws breach a fundamental human right – the right to work.… Go to Article
Rally for Refugees – close Manus Island!
Rally 5:30pm Friday, February 28, 2014,
King George Square
* Close Manus Island and Nauru concentration camps!
* Bring refugees to Australia and process them in the community!… Go to Article
Open letter to Australia from Manus Island detainees
Photos have now surfaced of Manus Island immigration detainees. Here, IA provides moving first-hand accounts from them speaking about their appalling conditions – along with more images detailing Australia’s shame.… Go to Article
Death-in-custody on Manus
i know this is a long post but i believe it is more than necessary
whatever the true facts are on mannus island’s detention camp riots/attacks over recent days there is one salient truth that stands above all the abbott/morrison secrecy and that is that both have more blood on their hands by their fascist, racist and xenophobic ‘solutions’ to the continuing flow of asylum seekers attempting to find relief and succour in this country.… Go to Article
MANUS has many victims
LOST DOCUMENTS ( by Australia) PLACE PEOPLE IN INDEFINITE DETENTION
The information debacle in immigration which has seen 10,000 names and details of refugees exposed online has many faces.… Go to Article
Stone Cold Justice
A SPECIAL FOUR CORNERS / THE AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPER INVESTIGATION
Monday 10 February 2014
The Israeli army is both respected and feared as a fighting force.… Go to Article
Police and locals run amok on Manus Island: scores injured
Scores of asylum seekers have been injured, some seriously as gangs of armed PNG police and locals go from compound to compound attacking any asylum seekers they can find.… Go to Article
Refugee Boat Timeline to February 6th
Refugee Boat Timeline to February 6th
TWO TURNBACKS TODAY
6th FEB
No arrivals reported today.
LATE NEWS
Again, thanks to Marg Hutton
Migrants stranded in Sukabumi, rejected by Australia
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | World | Thu, February 06 2014, 11:40 AM
Dozens of migrants from the Middle East have bcome stranded in Sukabumi 
after being refused entry by Australia at the immigration detention center in Cisarua, Bogor, West Java.… Go to Article
Response to “WikiLeaks, Drought and Syria”
Later on the same day that Thomas Friedman published the op-ed in the New York Times entitled “WikiLeaks, Drought and Syria” Jeffery Grossman wrote a response to it in his article ‘Thomas Friedman.… Go to Article
What do Israel and Australia have in common?
Opinion
26 Jan 2014
What do Israel and Australia have in common?Australia’s crimes during its colonial history resemble those of Israel.… Go to Article
Shouting into a dust storm: “WikiLeaks, Drought and Syria”
JAN. 21, 2014
by Thomas L. Friedman, Op-Ed Columnist, New York Times
In the 1970s, I got both my bachelors and masters degrees in modern Middle East studies, and I can assure you that at no time did environmental or climate issues appear anywhere in the syllabi of my courses.… Go to Article
Lets tell the 60% some home truths
[Editor’s Note: This poll was conducted by the ALP pollster UMR Research. UMR says that the poll was conducted online with 1,000 interviewees with a margin of error of 3.1%.… Go to Article
Refugee sworn affidavit of past torture by Australian Navy
… Go to ArticleThe military man raised his handgun (it was dark almost black and had a shiny side). He pointed it at my head.
Christmas Island doctors’ concern
[Editor’s note: Please find the long a detailed letter published in the Guardian together with the comments by Pamela Curr, a trained nurse and midwife.
PShift Retrospective 2013
History is an angel being blown backwards into the future
He said: History is a pile of debris
And the angel wants to go back and fix things
To repair the things that have been broken
But there is a storm blowing from Paradise
And the storm keeps blowing the angel backwards into the future
And this storm, this storm is called Progress.… Go to Article
Refugee MUST READ- Babies in detention
‘Don’t call my baby illegal!’ Inside asylum seeker maternity wards
CAROLINE DE COSTA
Professor at James Cook University School of Medicine| EMAIL | COMMENT
I am sitting in a room with several families and numerous small children on a hot Darwin Saturday morning.… Go to Article