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| Socialist Alliance Column In Darlington Review |
| 08.27.05 (1:40 am) [edit] |
Hello,
This article will be published in the local paper the Darlington Review, a paper which has allowed the Perth Hills Branch of the Socialist Alliance to publish a regular column. It concerns Tampa Day, the annual day of protest around Australia agains the government's policy of mandatory detention of asylum seekers and refugees. I think it will work well on my blog as a brief summary of the protest i'm going to report on tomorrow night.
With Affection,
Matthew
Article begins from here:
Local refugee rights supporters can be justly pleased that our MHR, Judi Moylan, took note of the campaign and played a role in forcing the federal government to bow to the pressure of public opinion about the mistreatment of refugees in Australia. The broad-based movement has won some significant victories in recent months.
The remaining 43 children and their families were released on July 29 (but are now caught in “community detention”). The refugee prison on Christmas Island emptied on the same day and its victims were given Temporary Protection Visas.
Peter Qasim, the longest serving prisoner, was released on July 17. After 6 years and 10 months mind-bending detention, the government has graciously encumbered him with a “return-pending” visa. By mid-August 70 of the 150 refugees who had been detained for over 2 years were out of the prisons.
But now dozens of asylum seekers who have been given a return-pending visa are living in uncertainty, not knowing when they will be returned to the country they fled from.
To move beyond window-dressing the government needs to resolve several outstanding injustices. There are 6 Villawood refugees who have been imprisoned for over 5 years. The scandal of the treatment of Vivian Solon, who was wrongfully deported to the Philippines, has yet to be addressed. There are more than 8,000 refugees on “E”-type bridging visas who are not allowed to work and so are forced to live on charity and there are still 32 asylum seekers on Nauru (that prison alone costs $1 million per person per year).
And more fundamentally, the unjust mandatory detention laws remain in place.
A government that deliberately sets out to torment refugees can hardly demand of Islamic schools that they “teach Australian values”. All schools should guard against the values that this government practices.
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