Comments on: Solitary confinement will cost you extra

By: JamesK

JamesK — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

MSNBC's Chris Matthews infamously said of Barack Obama during live coverage of one of his speeches that he "felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don't have that too often"

Are we witnessing another great moment in Australian journalism?

How's your leg Soph ?

By: Shane

Shane — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

I have just heard on the radio that the Australian government will send 12 million dollars as an aid to…Afghanistan, where many of our refugees came from. Just wondering whether this generous aid is somehow related to the charges for our 5 star concentration camps so we can compensate the country of Afghanistan for having supplied us with refugees.

By: Antique

Antique — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

This is a stain on the national psyche. Couln’t some fund be organized, with say Julian Burnside as it titular head, so that ordinary Australians could contribute, hold chook raffles, whatever, to contribue on a pro rata basis to these seriously maltreated people. It might make both the givers and the recipients feel better themselves as residents in this reputedly fair-go society. Just tell me where to send my first donation.

By: JamesK

JamesK — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Oh dear indeed……..Emily.

Do Kasian a favour. Say no more. Get independent legal advice.

By: Marilyn

Marilyn — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

I wonder if Cornelia got a bill before she got her compensation and why haven't Crikey yet written a word about the brutality of her "removal" from Baxter?

Joining the conspiracy of silence hoping that no-one will remember the nightmare we saw?

Sadly this is another relic of the appalling Gerry Hand.

By: Margaret Ackland

Margaret Ackland — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Kasian and Emily have kept quiet for a long time. It dosent seem like a good idea any more.
Kasian was traumatised during his time in detention. That this young man and others have suffered so much as a consequence of Australia’s politically motivated detention regime is bad enough but to be asked to pay for it is both sickening and absurd.
I fail to see the logic of just how the imposition of this bill and the pursuing of a young family struggling to put deep trauma behind them will enrich the Australian Community.

By: emily wililo

emily wililo — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

oh dear,
kasian spent months in solitary confinement, or “Red One”, “Management” or whatever name they gave it at the time
does that mean we will be getting a seperate bill for that too?

By: Jenny Haines

Jenny Haines — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

What a bureaucratic response from Tanner’s Office. The whole regime of charging refugees for their detention should be abolished. This is user pays gone mad!! Repeal S209, and 210 of the Migration Act 1958 (Cth). S 210 imposes a liabilty on some refugees who have been deported for god’s sake!! No doubt put there by the Howard Government to dissuade those persons from seeking to return to Australia ever again. There are many, many people who voted for the Rudd Government in the hope that all this madness was over and the Government are making a big mistake if they think they can get away with retaining these provision to mollify the ex One Nation supporters.