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?
Refugee groups
Mental health & housing: refugees are hard hit by housing crisis
Many refugees’ post-settlement experiences had an even greater effect on their mental health, including the search for accommodation. Read more in this special Crikey series.
Crikey Clarifier: government’s visa changes v TPVs
The government’s proposed changes to reintroduce temporary visas for certain asylum seekers is worse than Howard-era TPVs, according to Julian Burnside. Crikey intern Anokhee Shah reports.
Tips and rumours
Howard to pick up Andrews’ lead on African immigrants in speech tonight? Tampa for 2007? In this morning’s Australian: In a speech delivered today in Melbourne, Mr Andrews will tell the 12th International Metropolis Conference on immigration policy that confidence in the migration program will be undermined if the community is “denied a voice”. Refugee groups […]
Kevin Andrews prods the Sudanese in the woodpile
Will Australia’s successful and decades old refugee program now be dictated by Herald Sun headlines?
Never fear — the celebrities will save us!
Is the latest Tamar Valley pulp mill protest campaign part of a wider soft-left celebrity offensive? Are we beginning to allow largely unrelated and unqualified public figures to steer social debate? writes Luke McKenna.
