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		<title>Refugee debate dominated by compromise, not core promises</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/22/rundle-refugee-debate-dominated-by-compromise-not-core-promises/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/22/rundle-refugee-debate-dominated-by-compromise-not-core-promises/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 02:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Guy Rundle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Bowen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration Department]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration detention]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Robert Manne]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The anti-mandatory detention campaign, which came from the Left, has a simple demand -- that the country live up to its freely taken-on treaty obligations. Why have commentators like Robert Manne lost sight of that?]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;It felt like an electric shock&#8217;: life inside Malaysian detention</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/09/it-felt-like-an-electric-shock-life-inside-malaysian-detention/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/09/it-felt-like-an-electric-shock-life-inside-malaysian-detention/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 03:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Cowie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[amnesty international]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Asylum seekers and refugees in Malaysia are often subjected to judicial canings, long periods of incarceration and arbitrary arrest, according to reports from within the country's immigration detention system.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Buildings set alight at Villawood, as gov tries to sell new detention centre</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/04/21/buildings-set-alight-at-villawood-as-gov-tries-to-sell-new-detention-centre/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/04/21/buildings-set-alight-at-villawood-as-gov-tries-to-sell-new-detention-centre/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 03:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Cowie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[christmas island]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[detention centres]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DIAC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration detention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration detention centre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[villawood]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Immigration minister Chris Bowen is facing increasing political pressure over the government's handling of immigration detention today, after nine buildings were burnt down last night by protesting asylum seekers at Villawood Detention Centre.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>AFP struggles to regain control of &#8216;violent&#8217; Christmas Is protests</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/03/18/afp-struggles-to-regain-control-of-violent-christmas-is-protests/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/03/18/afp-struggles-to-regain-control-of-violent-christmas-is-protests/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 02:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Cowie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[christmas island]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration detention]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australian Federal Police are struggling to regain control of the ongoing situation on Christmas Island, as detainees continue their week of protests by burning down accommodation tents and throwing rocks.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>96</slash:comments>
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		<title>Detention debt destroyed</title>
		<link>http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/senate-passes-detention-debt-legislation-20090908-fenf.html</link>
		<comments>http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/senate-passes-detention-debt-legislation-20090908-fenf.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 06:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration Department]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration detention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[judith troeth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mandatory detention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal debt]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=85089</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After much debate, including a <em>Crikey</em> <a href="http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/24/coalition-splits-over-abolishing-detention-debt/">analysis</a> of which Coalition members supported the bill, the charging of immigration detainees and asylum seekers for their mandatory detention has been scrapped.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Couple still waiting for $262,000 detention bill to be waived</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/05/couple-still-waiting-for-262000-detention-bill-to-be-waived/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/05/couple-still-waiting-for-262000-detention-bill-to-be-waived/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sophie Black</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration detention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Evelyn and Masoud Shams are still waiting for the government to waive a detention debt of $264,000, reports <b>Sophie Black</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rudd: master of the firm understatement</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/08/06/rudd-master-of-the-firm-understatement/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/08/06/rudd-master-of-the-firm-understatement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[immigration detention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration minister]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opposition leaders]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd might be the volatile and temperamental man in private that some journalists have described but in public he continues to show a discipline and calmness that is admirable in a political leader. He has developed quickly into a campaigner of great skill with his delivery of firm understatements, writes Richard Farmer. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Is immigration detention worse than prison?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/07/19/is-immigration-detention-worse-than-prison/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/07/19/is-immigration-detention-worse-than-prison/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration detention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maximum security prisons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prisoners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[security inmates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[solitary confinement]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Another remarkable development yesterday in the sad case of Dr Mohamed Haneef, when his legal advisers opted not to post bail. The obvious conclusion is that immigration detention is regarded as worse than prison, writes Charles Richardson. ]]></description>
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