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Australia: 13 dead in two more refugee boat disasters - World Socialist Web Site

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Australia: 13 dead in two more refugee boat disasters
By Mark Church and Mike Head
17 July 2013

Two more asylum seeker boats have sunk trying to reach Australia in the past five days, killing at least 13 people. The sinkings underscore the mounting human toll of the Labor government’s escalating measures to stop refugees seeking to exercise their democratic and legal right to flee persecution and claim asylum.

Last night, a search for survivors was called off within hours after a boat carrying about 150 people capsized earlier in the evening, killing at least four passengers. At the time it sank, two Australian Navy ships were escorting it to the government’s detention camp on Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean.

#réfugiés #asile #australie #naufrage #mourir_en_mer

Australian ruling elite prepares further military interventions into South Pacific - World Socialist Web Site

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Australian ruling elite prepares further military interventions into South Pacific
By Patrick O’Connor—SEP candidate for the Senate in Victoria
30 May 2013

The Socialist Equality Party condemns the Labor government’s plans to step up the militarisation of the South Pacific, as revealed in its Defence White Paper this month, and warns workers and young people in Australia and the region that a new round of predatory interventions is being prepared.

The White Paper, the policy document that outlines Canberra’s current strategic and military agenda, underscores the extent to which Australian imperialism is committed to Washington’s so-called “pivot” to East Asia and the Pacific. The Obama administration is provocatively encircling and preparing for war against China in a bid to maintain Washington’s strategic domination over the entire region.

#pacifique #militarisation #australie #nouvelle-zélande

UN report details brutal conditions in Australian government’s Pacific refugee camps - World Socialist Web Site

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UN report details brutal conditions in Australian government’s Pacific refugee camps
By Mark Church
7 February 2013

The United Nations Human Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) released a report Monday detailing the appalling conditions endured by asylum seekers who are incarcerated by the Australian government on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island.

The contents of the UN report are a further indictment of the brutal and illegal policies enacted by the Labor government. Prime Minister Julia Gillard has revived and extended the “Pacific Solution” refugee regime of former Prime Minister John Howard, deporting asylum seekers who attempt to arrive in Australia by sea and indefinitely imprisoning them on Nauru and Papua New Guinea.

#migrations #réfugiés #asile #australie #brutalités #ils-recommencent

UN report details brutal conditions in Australian government’s Pacific refugee camps - World Socialist Web Site

►http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/02/07/manu-f07.html

UN report details brutal conditions in Australian government’s Pacific refugee camps
By Mark Church
7 February 2013

The United Nations Human Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) released a report Monday detailing the appalling conditions endured by asylum seekers who are incarcerated by the Australian government on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island.

The contents of the UN report are a further indictment of the brutal and illegal policies enacted by the Labor government. Prime Minister Julia Gillard has revived and extended the “Pacific Solution” refugee regime of former Prime Minister John Howard, deporting asylum seekers who attempt to arrive in Australia by sea and indefinitely imprisoning them on Nauru and Papua New Guinea.

#migrations #refugiés #asile #australie

Australian government imposes new spending cuts
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Australian government imposes new spending cuts
By Patrick O’Connor
23 October 2012

The Labor government of Prime Minister Julia Gillard yesterday announced additional socially-regressive spending cuts in its mid-year budget update, aimed at delivering the fiscal surplus it promised the financial markets and credit ratings agencies in May.

Private Prison for Asylum Seekers on Pacific Island
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Transfield Services, an Australian logistics company that provides services to the mining and oil industry among others, has won a A$24.5 million (US$25.9 million) contract from the government of Australia to run a detention center for asylum seekers in the Pacific island nation of Nauru.

In 2007 the Nauru detention center was shut down by the newly elected Labor government of Kevin Rudd as part of a plan to phase out the Pacific Solution as “costly, unsustainable, and wrong.” This policy was reversed last month by Rudd’s successor Julia Gillard, also from the Labor party, who announced a A$900 million (US$951.5 million) deal with Papua New Guinea and a A$2 billion (US$2.11 billion) deal with Nauru to accept new detainees.

Amnesty Australia began a petition to question the new policy. “Last time Australia sent asylum seekers to Nauru, conditions were so bad that a child swallowed a lightbulb to try and end his own life. Why will this time be any different?” the human rights group wrote.

In a bid to respond to these questions, the government has announced that it will pay the Salvation Army to provide counseling and recreation activities for asylum seekers.

#demandeurs_d'asile #Australie #rétention_privée #business #mauvais_traitement

Quand l’Australie prévoyait d’envahir Fidji et la Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinée...

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Australian military plans for invasion of Fiji and PNG
By James Cogan
12 June 2012

The Australian reported in its weekend edition that military strategists drew up detailed plans for the invasion of the island-states of Fiji and Papua New Guinea (PNG) as part of the Labor government’s 2009 Defence White Paper. The plans were part of a “top-secret Force Structure Review and analytic documents supporting it—which were prepared in conjunction with the white paper—and were presented to the National Security Committee of cabinet for consideration.”