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29 May 2007
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(Buddies) Thank you for your letter regarding Labor’s asylum seeker policy. Labor is committed to the fair and reasonable treatment of asylum seekers. A Labor Government would ensure that asylum seeker and refugee policy complies with the international obligations Australia voluntarily assumed by signing the Refugee Convention and other intemational instruments. [...]

01 May 2007 Former Liberal Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser has accused the Howard Government of using the politics of fear to damage traditional Australian values. Speaking at the Australian National University yesterday , Mr Fraser was scathing of the Government’s treatment of asylum seekers and Muslim Australians. “There have been suggestions that this next election [...]

The Editor Let us be clear: Kevin Andrews, the new Minister for Immigration, last week publicly identified the flaw in his own policy. He confuses the desperate act of fleeing a homeland to seek protection with fortune seeking, adventure and migration. No, Minister, an asylum seeker who pays a smuggler for their passage is [...]

….there must be a much quicker resolution to all claims…
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Queensland Democrat Senator, Andrew Bartlett, has returned from a visit to the asylum seekers’ camp on Nauru warning that there must be a much quicker resolution to all claims to avoid the major harm and costs that have occurred in the past….. Senator Bartlett [...]

MAY, 2007 NEWS FROM PORT AUGUSTA
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There will be an advertisement in this Saturday’s Advertiser re auction of items from Baxter Detention centre. The Gym, ‘property store’, office and unoccupied compounds have been packed up, “ready for escort”. Files are in boxes piled high in the offices and marked either Villawood or Darwin. Detention [...]

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By The Canberra Times 30 March 2007, Frank Brennan
THE new Minister for Immigration, Kevin Andrews, has sounded muddled in his statements defending the Government’s decision to send 83 Sri Lankan asylum-seekers to Nauru for processing. It is not all his fault. Even when he gets up to speed in the portfolio, there will still be [...]

TAMIL MEN AND BOYS - INCOMMUNICADO ONCE AGAIN
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It is now 5 days since the Tamil boys and young men were flown with 68 Guards, Australian Federal police and Immigration personnel in a plane chartered from the Nauru Government thousands of miles across the ocean to Nauru . It is not known what provision [...]

Sri Lankan asylum seekers on Christmas Island have now been sent to Nauru
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Dear Supporters of A Just Australia , As you may be aware the Sri Lankan asylum seekers on Christmas Island have now been sent to Nauru . The Government has put into place the policies of the Designated Unauthorised Arrivals bill [...]

From ‘A Just Australia’
Dear Supporters of A Just Australia, As you are probably aware, there are 83 Sri Lankan asylum seekers currently being held on Christmas Island, awaiting a decision from the Australian Government about their fate. We need your support to lobby for their immediate transfer to the mainland, or at minimum to remain [...]