Some Crikey readers don’t agree with Bernard Keane that small investors aren’t concerned about what’s happening with Telstra. Plus, an update on visiting detention centres.
Detention centres
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Keane on Telstra
Tough new restrictions on visits to detention centres
Serco — the company behind troubled UK immigration detention centres and prisons and now the contractor in Australia — has introduced a tough new regime to inhibit visitors to Australian detention centres, writes Trish and John Highfield.
We’re still locking kids up
Last week, Immigration Minister Chris Evans said: “It is Rudd Government policy that no child be held in an immigration detention centre”. But on Christmas Island, 84 kids are still being held in what the government calls “temporary detention”, reports David Marr.
Rundle: Libs try to put on a humane, human face; fail
The Liberal Party has now cottoned on to the fact that Australians don’t like seeing asylum seekers brutsalised on their watch, and has tried to make it a campaigning point. But it’s like Martians trying to work out how the humans think, says Guy Rundle.
Inside Indonesia’s brutal prisons
The Oz looks at the brutal conditions inside the Indonesian detention centres where the Sri Lankan asylum-seekers rejected by the Australian government are headed, which makes the Christmas Island facility look like a holiday resort.
A tour of Indonesia’s detention centres
First hand experiences of Indonesia’s detention centres, where asylum seekers are treated like animals, beating are frequent, and there’s no access to medical care, education, or adequate food.
No room for refugees in Greg Rudd’s Port Hedland facility
Christmas Island is filling up, but Port Hedland won’t be an option for housing any asylum seeker overflow — unless authorities can do a deal with Kevin Rudd’s brother.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: A clarification on children in detention
Lobbyists … Detention centres … that Grech guy … First Dog on christianity … Walkmans and Helen Razer … MJ jokes. It’s all on Crikey readers’ minds today.
