Julian Burnside’s Asylum
Seeker Speeches
"Towards a Just Society - Beyond the Spin" Stephen Murray-Smith Memorial lecture 2002
Asylum Seekers, Illegal Immigrants or Smuggled People?
Australia’s
Treatment of Refugees – The View From Outside. You
might agree or disagree with the morality of indefinite mandatory detention,
but Mr. Ruddock and Mr. Howard appear to be guilty of crimes against humanity
by virtue of their treatment of asylum seekers: see a legal analysis of section
268.12 of
Australia's Treatment of Refugees: the Tampa case
Authoritarianism in the Name of Freedom
Crimes against Humanity: Melbourne Rotary Club Speech, in debate with Sen. Amanda Vanstone, on 16 February 2004
Human Rights and Asylum Seekers
Sir Ninian Stephen Lecture