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Comment on ASCI Statement – Refugee Policy and the Malaysia Refugee Swap by ASCI Statement – Refugee Policy and the Malaysia Refugee Swap | Australia: The 'Lucky Country' | Scoop.it

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 23:50:00 +0000

[...] ASCI Statement – Refugee Policy and the Malaysia Refugee Swap Today, as the first group of asylum seekers to arrive under this preposterous Malaysia refugee swap land on Christmas Island, it is possible to conclude that Australia can no longer call itself a compassionate, humanitarian country. Under the arrangement, the next 800 asylum seekers who arrive in Australia by boat will be sent to Malaysia in return for 4000 UNHCR-approved refugees over the next four years. ASCI strongly disapproves of this agreement on the basis that it is ethically abhorrent, legally questionableand practically unsustainable. The agreement undermines basic principles of refugee protection, and compromises the human rights of those whom Australia is able and obligated to protect. Source: asci.org.au [...]

Comment on ASCI condemns Gillard’s Malaysian Solution by Sara

Sara — Sat, 28 May 2011 10:49:31 +0000

I dont see why Australia thinks that effectively refouling 800 asylum seekers to terrible conditions in Malaysia is OK, because 4000 (over 4 years) will be resettled in Australia? Australia has always had the capacity to resettle many more refugees out of detention centres in Malaysia that they themselves fund..so what has stopped them? Why do these 800 (and who knows how many more in the future) have to be ‘sacrificed’.
It wont stop the boats. No one will stop the boats, because for most people, boats are the only hope they have – especially when Convention countries start slamming their doors to asylum seeers…

Comment on The Australian: “Stop deporting Afghans” by toasty redhead

toasty redhead — Sun, 15 May 2011 01:38:54 +0000

Right on!

Comment on ASCI Statement: Villawood Riots by asa letourneau

asa letourneau — Thu, 12 May 2011 12:13:43 +0000

What a brilliant website and initiative. We all need to be part of the solution, if not we ARE definitely part of the problem. Let’s give future generations something to be proud of…how we dismantled mandatory detention and the Pacific ‘solution’ once and for all.

Comment on ASCI condemns Gillard’s Malaysian Solution by James

James — Mon, 09 May 2011 09:46:27 +0000

This is nothing to stop the boats before in placed in those region with workable mechanism which would guarantee their basic rights and protection in Malaysia.
It would be a big mistake if the developed and signatory country would dispose the refugees into uncertainty. But, It is trying to stop the flows of a few arrival from Malaysia just make-up 1% of total boatpeople arrivals.
One thing can hope for Rohingya in Malaysia if the Au would lead fairly operate the process through queue, the Rohingya would be in the first queue anyhow. As, they are the first Burmese refugee group in Malaysia and struggling two decades with similar abuses like in home. And there is no such queue as the Australians think.

They were the most oppressed in Burma and again repressed by concern quarters in hosting countries. Their plights are kept as unseen for long. Resettlement countries themselves must run their operations and processes in order to restore fair, equal and humane treatment.
Is it showing of powerful global leaders concern on refugees?

Comment on ASCI Statement: Villawood Riots by marie gordon

marie gordon — Tue, 03 May 2011 06:53:38 +0000

To Renee

Asylum seekers should not be put in detention. Oz is legally bound as a signatory to the 1951 Refugee Commission to offer refugees protection. But what do we do when they, driven to revolt after being locked up for 10+ more months with no sign of being assessed? We throw them into jail. Mandatory Detention was meant to be used as a last resort (Chris Evans, former Immigration Minister). These damaged, frightened refugees go to jail. What crime have they committed? With help of pathetic Chris owen we have slipped to bottom of the ‘humanity’ pole.
Two years ago the Human Rights Commission called for the Migratiob Act to be amended so that detention is the exception rather than the rule. Nothing happened. If that Amendment had been carried we would not be inl the present disastrous, Uncharitable mess, with imprisoned, hopeless refugees going mad through ill-treatment in our hellholes. The and of z was once know as the land of a fairk go. Not any longer. And why is ASIO, with its 1,800 employees, taking so long to assessed these people?

It’s a bkloody disgrave.

Marie

Comment on ASCI Statement: Villawood Riots by Marilyn Shepherd

Marilyn Shepherd — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 09:52:59 +0000

They are old dongas and tents. Why the public and the moron minister thinks they are more important than the deaths is beyond comprehension but one supposes it is a Sydney racism thing.

Must appeal to the dingbats who listen to that old lunatic Alan Jones musn’t we.

I wrote to all the ALP members asking why they believe the old huts are worth more than the lives they are taking away and got zero answers.

They make me sick to my guts the way they carry on.

It’s amazing the hypocrisy though.

This week Rudd aided the smuggling of 1,000 refugees from Misrata to Benghazi and no-one said a word.

Comment on ASCI Statement: Villawood Riots by Madeleine Kingston

Madeleine Kingston — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 10:22:27 +0000

A great article after my own heart and philosophical position. Thank you. It’s that simple. Not normally given to brevity but hay you last sentence sums it up:

“- should we hnot be morte disturbed that people are being driven to kill or harm them,selves, or protest and destroy thyings just to get attention? Before passing judgement, please ask more quetions about just what is going on behind the barbed wire”

Thank you Renee Chan!

Madeleine Kingston (skylark100 Twitter)

Comment on ASCI Statement: Villawood Riots by Cam

Cam — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 09:49:59 +0000

thoughtful piece Renee