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A 17 year old faces lifetime detention
without breaking the law, without reasons.
Offshore processing and the problem with
Nauru
How do we respond to the fact of refugees
drowning at sea trying to get here?
Public swearing
Excellent article by James Hathaway about
asylum seekers being held by Indonesia
Have a look at the website of Welcome to Australia – a
really beaut idea.
Myths about boat people – get the facts here
op-ed in
Newcastle Herald 3 November 2011 (original as published here:
slow to load)
Brooke Green recently
arranged a song called Albanese for
her group Josie and The Emeralds. The are a viol consort song: The Emerald City Viols with soprano, Josie Ryan. It
is a song for boat people
everywhere
Fight Free February: an
interesting innovation in dispute avoidance
The arguments about offshore processing
The folly of Gillard and Abbott and offshore processing
The Gillard government’s shameful attempted
amendments to the Migration
Act – see especially proposed section 198AA. It did not get up, but they are still trying.
Lest we forget: précis here, and full transcript here
Michael Kirby Oration, Adelaide AABHL
conference, 3 July 2010
Social debate and discussion at Agora
We are still keeping minors in immigration
detention: see answers given in Senate Estimates.
Senate Access
to Justice Report (Dec 2009)
Support for and information about detainees on Christmas Island: site is
still under construction
Refugee facts from the
Asylum Seekers Resource Centre
Download Uniting Church Human
Rights kit ; get a useful factsheet on refugees and a
useful summary of myths and facts
from the Refugee Council of Australia; and a useful compilation of asylum facts
prepared by the Parliamentary library
Australians All and The Justice Project
find a Community
Legal Centre to help you
The Rendition Monologues: available here for
any theatre group to perform
The arts
Art, music and theatre: what’s on at fortyfive downstairs (
Wolfgang Sievers
photographs for sale
Fine chamber music: Musica Viva
Australia
Opinion: National
Times
Today news
headlines: SBS
online, Age, SMH, Australian, ABC, Guardian,
World clock graphically
illustrating time zones
Current affairs and
comment: Inside Story
Interesting and
diverse legal coverage on Stephen Warne’s
website
Latest news and
projects
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Special
Review of CIA interrogation techniques in Guantanamo Bay etc
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UN Human Rights
Committee Report
on Australia
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A new report
on the operation of the Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities
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Human Rights Watch 2009 Report
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The Australian Human Rights Group
announces its campaign for a Human Rights Act for
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Proust
report on department of Immigration response to Palmer and Comrie reports
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Sir Richard Kirby lecture, 2008
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Report
of joint parliamentary committee on detention
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It’s Time for
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Magnificent bloopers in commentary at the Olympic Games
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English Court
of Appeal holds government to account for ‘special rendition’
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Jail for politicians who mislead the public. Ignore Laurie
Oakes and
Andrew Bolt who misrepresent or misunderstand the point.
See the argument here.
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9th Manning Clark Lecture, delivered 10 March 2008
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Age
editorial calls for scrapping of mandatory detention
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HREOC report on mandatory
detention
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The Charter of Rights in Victoria
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The Centre for Constitutional Rights
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