Europe can learn from Australia’s border policy. But not by listening to Abbott
Tony Abbott is wrong that European leaders can solve the refugee crisis by mimicking his policies. Here are the real lessons Europe can learn from Australia
▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/19/europe-can-learn-from-australias-border-policy-but-not-by-listening-to-
#modèle_australien #asile #migrations #réfugiés #Australie #Europe
How Europe’s far right fell in love with Australia’s immigration policy
European nativist parties have embraced Australia’s hardline tactics for managing asylum seekers and refugees – but their true agenda is to keep Muslims out. By Sasha Polakow-Suransky
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/12/how-europes-far-right-fell-in-love-with-australias-immigration-policy
Questioning the Australian Refugee Model
Those looking to emulate Australia’s refugee system often ignore its resettlement program while touting the offshoring of asylum seekers. Maria O’Sullivan from the Castan Centre offers a more realistic assessment.
▻https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2018/01/09/questioning-the-australian-refugee-model
Refuge Lost: Asylum Law in an Interdependent World
As Europe deals with a so-called ’refugee crisis’, Australia’s harsh border control policies have been suggested as a possible model for Europe to copy. Key measures of this system such as long-term mandatory detention, intercepting and turning boats around at sea, and the extraterritorial processing of asylum claims were actually used in the United States long before they were adopted in Australia. The book examines the process through which these policies spread between the United States and Australia and the way the courts in each jurisdiction have dealt with the measures. Daniel Ghezelbash’s innovative interdisciplinary analysis shows how policies and practices that ’work’ in one country might not work in another. This timely book is a must-read for those interested in preserving the institution of asylum in a volatile international and domestic political climate.
#livre #USA #Etats-Unis #détention_administrative #circulation_des_modèles
Ici un interview de l’auteur du livre, #Daniel_Ghezelbash:
’A race to the bottom’: how Australia imported its asylum seeker policies from the US
In his new book, Refuge Lost: Asylum Law in an Interdependent World, Ghezelbash examines the propensity of states to borrow and adapt policies from other nations to suit their own political ends. Hardline policies towards asylum seekers, he argues, can “spread like wildfire” between countries seeking to burnish their deterrent credentials, and anxious to keep asylum seekers from seeking protection on their shores.
▻https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/may/06/a-race-to-the-bottom-how-australia-imported-its-asylum-seeker-policies-
Alors que moi, je continue à penser aussi qu’il y un #modèle_suisse copié par l’Europe... cc @isskein
Defence White Paper puts Australia on war footing against China - World Socialist Web Site
▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/02/27/whit-f27
The “Defence White Paper,” published by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s Coalition government on February 25, amounts to a declaration that Australian imperialism, in alliance with the United States, is preparing for war against China. The document incorporates all the military commitments made by the former Labor Party government to the anti-China US “pivot to Asia” in November 2011, as well as additional undertakings made to Washington by the Coalition under former Prime Minister Tony Abbott. Hundreds of billions of dollars will be spent over the coming years on the greatest expansion of the Australian armed forces since World War II.
#australie #défense #armée #chine #guerre #pacifique #asie_pacifique
Can we define terror, or should we let terrorism define us?
▻https://oisc.wordpress.com/2014/11/02/can-we-define-terror-or-should-we-let-terrorism-define-us
The labeling of terrorism, therefore, is a political accusation of the state against which it is aimed: this authority isn’t legitimate and is oppressive. Considering Mandela a terrorist, at the time, meant supporting the apartheid regime of South Africa against an insurgency hell-bent on destroying the status quo.
Yet, despite this acknowledgement that crimes of occupation, crimes of aggression, and state corruption are causes of political violence, international bodies of law, by treaty or doctrine, never define terrorism.
▻https://i2.wp.com/sadredearth.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/national-intelligence-director-james-clapper-says-prism-is-entirely-legal-tha
Do you want… James Clapper to (unwittingly) define terrorism?
Australian government refuses to lift refugee intake - World Socialist Web Site
▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/09/07/refu-s07-1.html
Australian government refuses to lift refugee intake
By Mike Head
7 September 2015
The Abbott government yesterday cynically sought to counter the mounting international and domestic criticism of Australia’s inhuman anti-refugee regime, amid the worldwide outpouring of sympathy for the tens of thousands of refugees seeking asylum in Europe.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced that Australia would take more refugees from war-ravaged Syria and Iraq, pledging to do “the right thing” and help the UN respond to the humanitarian crisis.
AUSTRALIE : TONY ABBOTT D’ACCORD POUR DÉBATTRE DE LA RECONNAISSANCE CONSTITUTIONNELLE DES ABORIGÈNES
▻http://www.brujitafr.fr/2015/08/australie-tony-abbott-d-accord-pour-debattre-de-la-reconnaissance-constitu
CANBERRA, 19 août (Xinhua) — Le Premier ministre australien Tony Abbott a appelé mercredi à la tenue de pourparlers sur la reconnaissance des Aborigènes en tant que « peuple premier » du continent, quelques semaines après avoir pourtant lui-même fermé...
Rap News 34 : Immigrants ! Feat. Donald Trump, Katie Hopkins & Tony Abbott
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/rap-news-34-immigrants-feat-donald-trump-katie-hopkins-and-tony-abbo
In this broadcast we look at the controversial subject of immigration. Mass exoduses of people - refugees, asylum seekers, and migrant workers - are taking place all over the planet, causing...
Open letter on the Border Force Act: ’We challenge the department to prosecute’
Open letter regarding the #Border_Force_Act_2015
More than 40 current and former workers at Australia’s detention centres on Nauru and Manus Island challenge Tony Abbott and Peter Dutton to prosecute them under new secrecy laws for speaking out over human rights abuses
▻http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jul/01/open-letter-on-the-border-force-act-we-challenge-the-department-to-pros
#Australie #Nauru #Manus_island #réfugiés #asile #migration #externalisation #droits_humains #dénonciation #résistance #lettre_ouverte
Radical Islam and the West: the moral panic behind the threat
▻http://theconversation.com/radical-islam-and-the-west-the-moral-panic-behind-the-threat-43113
Not to be outdone in #hyperbole, Attorney-General George Brandis declared IS to be an “existential threat to us”. Prime Minister #Tony_Abbott said the dangers were “unprecedented”. Foreign Minister #Julie_Bishop claimed these particular Islamists were:
“… the most significant threat to the global rules-based order to emerge in the past 70 years – and included in my considerations is the rise of communism and the Cold War.”
This was an extraordinary suggestion. But Bishop’s speech was apparently insufficient to mobilise public fear about the scale of the threat the nation suddenly faced. It wasn’t long before she invoked the spectre of IS terrorists with weapons of mass destruction – chemical weapons and dirty uranium bombs – again, as in 2003, without producing any evidence for such claims.
In a recent speech, Bishop also explained IS’s origins. But missing entirely from her analysis was an acknowledgement that the West’s invasion of Iraq in 2003, and its subsequent occupation, had any role in fomenting the conditions that gave rise to IS.
Omitted too from Bishop’s account were the financial contributions of Saudi, Kuwaiti and Qatari elites to their Sunni co-religionists, presumably because they are now posing as the West’s allies in this latest Babylonian struggle. Turkey’s porous border, across which oil, arms and militants freely flow into IS-held territory, also fails to gain a mention.
Instead, it is the democratic uprisings in North Africa and the Persian Gulf in 2010 and 2011 that produced fertile conditions for IS’s rise. According to Bishop:
“The Arab Spring for all its potential as an example of grass roots democracy movements rising up against authoritarian regimes, in fact left behind chaos and instability – creating a breeding ground for terrorist cells. One of the most brutal was al-Qaeda in Iraq under the ruthless leadership of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was among the first to use beheadings as a tool of terror. ”
Bishop did not explain the mystery of who al-Zarqawi was actually fighting in Iraq, presumably because the illegal invasion and occupation by Western military forces remains taboo. It cannot be easy delivering a major speech on the war against IS without mentioning what was happening in the country between 2003 and 2011. Or how so many former members of Saddam Hussein’s army ended up fighting for IS.
However dubious her historical narrative, Bishop’s invocation of the Arab Spring is nevertheless a perspicacious lens through which to examine the relationship between the West and radical Islam. It reveals a very different history to the one framed by official orthodoxy. It tells us a good deal more about the main currents of contemporary US foreign policy than the moral panic that currently prevails.
#excellent de bout en bout
Migrants en #Méditerranée
Depuis le début de l’année le nombre de décès de migrants en Méditerranée a été multiplié par 10, mettant en exergue l’impuissance de l’Union européenne. Une idée refait surface, celle de centres d’enregistrements en Afrique. Un sujet de Bernard Genier
►http://www.rts.ch/play/tv/mise-au-point/video/migrants-en-mediterranee?id=6733003
#2015
On parle aussi du #modèle_australien
Sur le modèle australien v. à partir de la minute 2’55, juste après la citation de Thomas de Mezière
#Australie #réfugiés #asile #migration
Images du #camp_de_Shagarab au #Soudan, où sont installés environ 30’000 réfugiés érythréens, avec un témoignage d’un Erythréens en Suisse et qui parle des très mauvaises conditions dans le camp de Shagarab, dans lequel il dénonce les #trafic_d'êtres_humains qui se font dans ce camp
–-> vente de personnes à des groupes de la région qui elles-mêmes les vendent à des Bédouins du Sinaï.
Avec l’opération « Frontières souveraines », l’Australie n’a plus enregistré de morts au large de ses côtes ?
Ce mercredi matin, Factuel revient sur une déclaration du vice-président du Front national français, Florian Philippot :
« C’est la seule solution et la solution la plus humaniste. Je rappelle que l’Australie, depuis qu’elle a mis en place cette politique, est passée de 900 morts à 0 morts. »
Vrai ou faux ?
Avec l’opération « Frontières souveraines », l’Australie est passée de 900 à zéro mort de migrants, c’est vrai ?
Sur le bilan chiffré, c’est vrai... et c’est assez logique. On estime qu’au cours de la grosse décennie précédant la mise en place de ce dispositif, entre 1998 et 2013, de 1200 à 1800 personnes environ - selon les différentes estimations ont perdu la vie en tentant d’aborder les côtes australiennes.
Décomptes officiels
Depuis le début de l’opération « Frontières souveraines », instaurée en septembre 2013, en revanche, aucun décès n’a été enregistré, selon le décompte des autorités australiennes qui publient tous les mois des rapports chiffrés très détaillés sur le déroulement de l’opération.
Données récoltées par des chercheurs indépendants
Mais il existe également d’autres données récoltées par des chercheurs indépendants, notamment par une équipe de l’Université Monash à Melbourne qui a recensé, elle, dans les premiers mois de l’opération, deux naufrages et 39 victimes, cela, non pas dans les eaux territoriales australiennes, mais au large de l’île de Java, en eaux indonésiennes. Cette question est d’ailleurs l’un des points de controverse de cette opération : seuls les incidents et, le cas échéant, les morts sur territoire maritime australien sont comptabilisés par les statistiques officielles.
Une question de territoire maritime
Dans la mesure où les autorités australiennes parviennent à refouler ou intercepter la très grande majorité des bateaux qui s’en approchent, il est assez logique qu’elles n’aient enregistré aucun accident mortel dans leurs eaux nationales. En revanche, il y a très peu de données précises sur ce qui advient des embarcations refoulées, la plupart du temps vers l’Indonésie et c’est ce que dénoncent certains chercheurs et plusieurs ONG qui considèrent qu’avec l’opération du gouvernement australien, le problème des naufrages de bateaux de migrants n’est pas réglé... mais déplacé.
▻https://www.rts.ch/la-1ere/programmes/factuel/6721686-avec-l-operation-frontieres-souveraines-l-australie-n-a-plus-enregistre-
v. ces références publiées par la RTS :
A year of stronger borders
▻http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/143035/20141222-1032/www.minister.immi.gov.au/media/sm/2014/sm217927.htm
Operation Sovereign Borders
▻http://newsroom.customs.gov.au/channels/Operation-Sovereign-Borders
Australian Border Deaths Database
►http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/thebordercrossingobservatory/publications/australian-border-deaths-database
Les publications de #Andreas_Schloenhardt
▻http://www.law.uq.edu.au/academic-staff/staff.php?nm=andreasschloenhardt&tab=publicationslink
Et une base de données des morts :
▻http://sievx.com/articles/background/DrowningsTable.pdf
#mourir_en_mer #mourir_aux_frontières #statistiques #chiffres #base_de_données #recensement #morts_en_mer
cc @reka
Les migrants arrivés par mer doivent être refoulés, dit Tony Abbott
Le Premier ministre australien Tony Abbott conseille à l’Union européenne (UE) de suivre l’exemple de son pays en matière d’immigration. Les 28 Etats devraient refouler tous les migrants arrivés par la mer pour empêcher des drames en Méditerranée.
▻http://www.swissinfo.ch/fre/toute-l-actu-en-bref/les-migrants-arriv%C3%A9s-par-mer-doivent-%C3%AAtre-refoul%C3%A9s--dit-tony-abbott/41390528
Australia’s Rigid Immigration Barrier
SYDNEY, Australia — In April, after the deaths of nearly 900 migrants attempting to reach Europe by boat, Australia’s conservative prime minister, Tony Abbott, urged European governments to adopt his country’s hard-line stance. The sentiment echoed a comment he’d made weeks earlier: that only his administration could resist “the cries of the human rights lawyers.”
Ambassador to France offers resignation after ’bizarre’ Abbott airport incident
▻http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/ambassador-to-france-offers-resignation-after-bizarre-abbott-airport-inci
Décidément, pour faire évoluer nos sociétés, y a apparemment encore pas mal de boulot.
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http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/g/u/o/e/t/image.related.articleLeadNarrow.300x0.ggunu9.png/1430836278108.jpg 
Australia’s ambassador to France offered his resignation after an incident while greeting Tony Abbott as he arrived in Paris on Anzac Day.
According to multiple sources, the ambassador, Stephen Brady, was on the airport tarmac with his partner of 32 years, Peter Stephens, waiting to meet the incoming plane around 7pm Paris time.
The prime minister’s travelling party sent an instruction that Mr Stephens should not take part in the greeting but should wait in the car.
Bientôt plus d’allocations sans vaccination en Australie
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/asie-pacifique/article/2015/04/12/bientot-plus-d-allocations-sans-vaccination-en-australie_4614486_3216.html
Le premier ministre (conservateur) australien, Tony Abbott, a prévenu dimanche 12 avril que les parents qui refuseraient de faire vacciner leurs enfants seraient privés de certaines allocations familiales : « Pas de piqûre, pas d’argent », a-t-il déclaré.
Déclaration originale : no jab, no play and no pay.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott announces ‘no jab, no play and no pay’ policy for child vaccination | dailytelegraph.com.au
▻http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/prime-minister-tony-abbott-announces-no-jab-no-play-and-no-pay-policy-for-child-vaccination/story-fni0cx12-1227300104716
Today I am pleased to announce the government will be introducing a new “no jab, no play and no pay” policy for childcare support.
From January 1, 2016, “conscientious objection” will be removed as an exemption category for childcare payments (Child Care Benefit and Child Care Rebate) and the Family Tax Benefit Part A end-of-year supplement.
Immunisation requirements for the payment of FTB Part A end-of-year supplement will also be extended to include children of all ages.
Existing exemptions on medical or religious grounds will continue, however a religious objection will only be available where the person is affiliated with a religious group where the governing body has a formally registered objection approved.
This means vaccine objectors will not be able to access these government payments. The new policy will tighten up the rules and reinforce the importance of immunisation and protecting public health, especially for children.
’Things happen’: Tony Abbott on sexual assault allegations in offshore detention
Australian prime minister tells radio interviewer ‘occasionally ... things happen’ when asked about Moss review of immigration detainee safety on Nauru
#Australia joins #US in military campaign against #ISIS
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/australia-joins-us-military-campaign-against-isis
Australia became the first country to detail troop numbers and aircraft for a US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State in #Iraq and #syria (ISIS) militants in Iraq, as Washington drums up support for global action to counter the “terrorist” threat. Australia Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Sunday a 600-strong force comprising some 400 airforce personnel and 200 special forces soldiers would be deployed to a US military base in the United Arab Emirates. read more
Des e-mails montrent comment l’#Australie s’efforce de renvoyer en #Syrie des #demandeurs_d’asile - Le nouvel Observateur
▻http://rue89.nouvelobs.com/2014/08/19/emails-montrent-comment-laustralie-sefforce-renvoyer-syrie-demandeu
L’Australie est régulièrement pointée du doigt pour sa désastreuse prise en charge des demandeurs d’asile. La question des #réfugiés y est un thème de campagne récurrent, l’actuel Premier ministre #Tony_Abbott utilisant abondamment le slogan « stop the boats ». Depuis des années, l’Australie parque les réfugiés dans des centres de #détention ou les envoie attendre dans des pays tiers.
En mars dernier, le Guardian expliquait comment les autorités se sont efforcées de renvoyer en Syrie des demandeurs d’asile, malgré la #guerre civile qui y fait rage.
Ce mardi, le quotidien britannique publie des e-mails échangés à l’intérieur du département australien en charge de l’immigration. Dans ces messages, il apparait clairement que les autorités se démènent pour organiser le rapatriement vers la Syrie de plusieurs Syriens, sans même mentionner les dangers encourus.
Ces efforts vont même jusqu’au partage de documents d’identité avec le consulat Syrien. La représentante australienne de Human Rights Watch en a encore des hoquets d’indignation :
#renvoi #expulsion #refoulement #asile #migration
L’Australie... ca fait vraiment peur...
Australia going to ’unthinkable’ lengths to return Syria detainees, emails show
The lengths to which the Australian immigration department has gone to facilitate the repatriation of traumatised Syrian asylum seekers detained in offshore detention centres has been extensively revealed in departmental emails obtained under freedom of information laws.
Scott Morrison’s Syrian returns ’partner’ distances itself from repatriation efforts
The International Organisation for Migration denies it is helping send asylum seekers on Manus Island back to Syria
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/20/scott-morrisons-syrian-returns-partner-distances-itself-from-repatriati
Tony Abbott’s harsh treatment of asylum seekers is the same old story
Occasionally you have to pause to take stock of just how bizarre Australia’s asylum seeker debate has become. In summary, it works like this: the Coalition implements a policy that is mostly Labor’s while pretending it is doing something so uniquely tough that no one else could possibly be so courageous. Labor, meanwhile, objects because that’s what oppositions do, while trying delicately to avoid criticising the very thing it has unleashed. The mainstream public responds, in poll after poll, with a mix of approval and bloodlust. Some call for even harsher measures though it is difficult to imagine what that would mean. Operation Sovereign Slaughter, perhaps?
Patrimoine mondial : l’Unesco refuse de déclasser des forêts australiennes
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2014/06/24/patrimoine-mondial-l-unesco-refuse-de-declasser-des-forets-australiennes_444
Le comité du patrimoine mondial de l’Unesco, réuni à Doha, a refusé de déclasser partiellement des forêts de Tasmanie comme le demandait l’Australie, une décision de bon sens, se sont félicitées mardi 24 juin les associations australiennes de protection de la nature.
Cette décision est un camouflet pour le premier ministre conservateur australien, Tony Abbott, qui souhaitait déclasser 74 000 hectares sur 120 000 inscrits au patrimoine mondial en 2013 sous le gouvernement travailliste. C’était la première fois qu’un pays développé avait déposé une telle demande.
Juste avant le verdict contre les journalistes d’Al Jazeera, le Premier ministre australien félicitait Sisi pour la répression des Frères musulmans (tout en appelant à la clémence pour le ressortissant australien) : Peter Greste trial : Tony Abbott appeals to Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to release Australian Al Jazeera journalist
▻https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/24291475/peter-greste-trial-julie-bishop-pushes-for-australian-al-jazeera-jour
"I congratulated him on the work that the new government of Egypt had done to crack down on the Muslim Brotherhood, which is, if you like, the spiritual author and father of some of these even more radical groups.
« Jérusalem-Est occupée » : la chef de la diplomatie australienne va rencontrer des ambassadeurs - L’Orient-Le Jour
▻http://www.lorientlejour.com/article/871860/jerusalem-est-occupee-la-chef-de-la-diplomatie-australienne-va-rencon
La ministre australienne des Affaires étrangères va rencontrer les ambassadeurs des pays indignés par la décision de Canberra de ne plus utiliser le terme « occupée » à propos de Jérusalem-Est, a annoncé dimanche le Premier ministre, Tony Abbott.
Les déclarations début juin du gouvernement australien indiquant qu’il n’utiliserait plus le qualificatif « occupée » pour Jérusalem-Est a déclenché la colère des Palestiniens.
Jeudi, 18 chancelleries étrangères, dont l’Indonésie, l’Egypte et l’Arabie saoudite, ont formellement protesté auprès de l’Australie. Cette décision « très provocante et inutile » pourrait avoir de graves conséquences pour les échanges commerciaux entre l’Australie et les pays arabes, avait indiqué à l’AFP Izzat Abdulhadi, le chef de la délégation palestinienne à Canberra.
Arab countries threaten sanctions against #Australia in East #jerusalem row
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/arab-countries-threaten-sanctions-against-australia-over-east-jer
Australia’s foreign minister will meet ambassadors angered by the country’s decision to stop referring to East Jerusalem as “occupied,” Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Sunday as he stressed there was “no change in policy.” Australia has been warned of possible Arab trade sanctions after last week’s move, which Attorney-General George Brandis said was made because the term “occupied” carried pejorative implications and was seen by the Australian government as neither appropriate or useful. read more
L’Australie compte trop de forêts protégées, pour son premier ministre
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/asie-pacifique/article/2014/03/05/l-australie-compte-trop-de-forets-protegees-pour-son-premier-ministre_437765
Le premier ministre conservateur australien Tony Abbott était accusé, mercredi 5 mars, de mener « une attaque massive contre l’environnement » par la dirigeante des Verts, après avoir estimé que l’Australie comptait bien assez de forêts protégées et de parcs nationaux.
La veille, lors d’un dîner devant des représentants de la filière bois, il a défendu la décision de son gouvernement de demander le retrait du label Patrimoine mondial de l’Unesco à 74 000 hectares de forêt sur l’île de Tasmanie.
« Nous ne sommes pas en faveur de nouvelles forêts protégées. Nous avons suffisamment de parcs nationaux, nous avons suffisamment de forêts protégées. En fait, nous avons déjà trop de forêts protégées ».
Le gouvernement conservateur, élu en septembre dernier, promeut un programme favorisant, à tout prix, l’activité des entreprises, et M. Abbott est surnommé par les Verts « le premier ministre qui creuse [à propos des mines] et qui coupe ». Il a promis d’annuler la taxe carbone, votée par le précédent gouvernement travailliste et que doivent payer notamment les groupes miniers.
En décembre, il avait donné son feu vert à un vaste projet d’extension d’un port d’exportation de charbon sur la côte de la Barrière de corail, mettant cette dernière en danger selon les défenseurs de l’environnement.
#Manus_Island: leaked report reveals hazards of processing centre expansion
Environmental impact statement and design report highlights risks of unexploded ordnance, asbestos and toxic materials
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/04/manus-island-leaked-report-reveals-extreme-risks-processing-centre-expa
#Australie #migration #asile #centres_d'identification #requérants_d'asile #centre_d'accueil #impact_environnemental
Reports that Australian staff and private security have fled the Manus Detention facility after new breakout
UNCONFIRMED reports suggest up to 50 asylum seekers have machete wounds after what the Immigration Minister calls a ‘new and serious’ incident overnight.
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▻http://www.news.com.au/national/reports-that-australian-staff-and-private-security-have-fled-the-manus-detention-facility-after-new-breakout/story-fncynjr2-1226830096817
One Dead At Manus After PNG Police Open Fire
At least one person is dead and dozens injured after PNG police opened fire at the Manus Island detention centre last night, a local source has told New Matilda editor Marni Cordell
▻https://newmatilda.com/2014/02/18/one-dead-manus-after-png-police-open-fire
Manus Island riot: They fled to save their lives, detainee says
SBS has obtained audio of an asylum seeker on Manus Island who witnessed last night’s riot.
▻http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/02/18/manus-island-riot-they-fled-save-their-lives-detainee-says
Australian immigration minister announces independent inquiry into Manus Island violence
Scott Morrison says there are reports that Papua New Guinea police fired shots twice during Monday’s disturbances
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/18/scott-morrison-announces-independent-inquiry-into-manus-island-violence
Voices from Manus: ’We are in danger. Somebody please help us’
Asylum seekers claim they were attacked inside the compound, contradicting government accounts of two bloody days
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/18/voices-from-manus-we-are-in-danger-somebody-please-help-us
Reports of another outbreak of violence at Manus Island detention facility
UNCONFIRMED reports are emerging of another round of unrest unfolding at the Manus Island Detention Centre.
▻http://www.news.com.au/national/reports-of-violence-and-serious-injuries-amid-conflicting-accounts-of-manus-island-detention-facility-uprising/story-fncynjr2-1226830048273
Scontri nei centri per i richiedenti asilo
La notte del 17 febbraio un richiedente asilo è stato ucciso e molti sono stati feriti durante le proteste scoppiate nel centro di detenzione per migranti gestito dall’Australia nell’isola di Manus, in Papua Nuova Guinea.
▻http://www.internazionale.it/news/australia/2014/02/18/scontri-nei-centri-per-i-richiedenti-asilo
Probe into killing of Manus detainee
A government inquiry will be launched as serious questions have been raised about Australia’s responsibility to asylum seekers held in offshore detention centres after violent clashes on Manus Island left one Iranian asylum seeker dead, another shot and scores of others severely injured.
▻http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/probe-into-killing-of-manus-detainee-20140218-32ylm.html
Who’s Policing Manus Island ?
’They will knock a few heads in, shoot a few pigs.’ PNG’s mobile squads, involved in the Manus attack, have a fearsome reputation - and Australia is their paymaster, writes Kristian Lasslett
▻https://newmatilda.com/2014/02/18/whos-policing-manus-island
Manus Island shooting victim’s X-ray provides key clue in riot investigation
It’s just a blurry dark shadow on an X-ray but it could be a key clue as to who was responsible for the extreme violence on Manus Island this week.
As two official investigations are set up to learn how one asylum seeker was killed, another shot and dozens injured in a bloody riot at the Manus Island detention centre, accusations have been flying over what sort of force was used.
Read more: ▻http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/manus-island-shooting-victims-xray-provides-key-clue-in-riot-investigation-2
▻http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/manus-island-shooting-victims-xray-provides-key-clue-in-riot-investigation-2
Manus Island : so many questions, one simple solution
There is a humane, efficient and affordable approach. If only we would try it.
▻http://www.theage.com.au/comment/manus-island-so-many-questions-one-simple-solution-20140220-333sn.html
Shocking claims after Manus Island bloodbath
AS BLAME is exchanged on the Manus Island detention centre bloodbath, it has been claimed that the Iranian asylum seeker killed on Monday night may have been murdered by out-of-control guards who stomped his skull as he lay defenceless on the ground.
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▻http://www.news.com.au/national/shocking-claims-after-manus-island-bloodbath/story-fncynjr2-1226833207973
Australia to send home body of asylum seeker
Body of Iranian man killed during violent breakout from detention center to be sent to family.
▻http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2014/02/australia-send-body-asylum-seeker-home-201422165719705188.html
#Scott_Morrison contradicts first account of Manus Island unrest
Immigration minister concedes most events – including the death of one asylum seeker – took place inside compound’s perimeter
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/23/scott-morrison-contradicts-account-manus-island-unrest
U.N. Office Criticizes Australia Detention Policies
Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers sent to offshore processing centers is cruel, inhuman and degrading and it violates international law, the United Nations’ human rights office said Friday.
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/22/world/asia/un-office-criticizes-australia-detention-policies.html
Tony Abbott defends Scott Morrison’s bungled information on Manus Island violence
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has defended Immigration Minister Scott Morrison’s bungled information about the death and violence on Manus Island, adding that there was “very little damage” to the detention centre and that the riot had been “dealt with”.
▻http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/tony-abbott-defends-scott-morrisons-bungled-information-on--manus-island-vio
Manus Island detention facility contract
Contract between Australia’s Department of Immigration and Citizenship and G4S for the management of the offshore detention facility for asylum seekers on Papua New Guinea.
▻http://fr.scribd.com/doc/155097545/Manus-Island-detention-facility-contract#fullscreen
I was told to lie: Manus Island staffer
In an interview with SBS’s Dateline, a migration agent who worked on Manus Island claims she was told to lie to inmates and labelled the government’s processing system ‘fake’.
▻http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/02/25/i-was-told-lie-manus-island-staffer
Riot flared as Manus Island refugees realised ’lies were told’
▻http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/riot-flared-as-manus-island-refugees-realised-lies-were-told-20140225-33f
Manus guards let residents into centre as extra manpower, says #G4S witness
G4S employees broke down the centre’s perimeter fence to allow PNG locals in on night of rioting, witness tells the ABC
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/25/manus-guards-let-residents-into-centre-as-extra-manpower-says-g4s-witne
Manus Island – An insider’s report
I have been a crime novelist for over 15 years, and in that time I have had the honour of meeting and researching with international military personnel, FBI agents, homicide investigators, paramedics, undercover officers, survivors of crime, private investigators and more (and have myself earned my Certificate III in Private Investigation). Though I am a civilian, I have during this time often had access to non-civilian areas and have been made privy to highly sensitive information. It is a personal point of pride that I have, over many years, earned a considerable level of trust with many highly-trained professionals, and have been able to share through fiction the difficult stories of survivors and professionals with the tough job of protecting others in an imperfect and sometimes violent world. I have also been an unpaid advocate for child rights with UNICEF since 2007 and as of September 2013 my role has been expanded to UNICEF Australia National Ambassador for Child Survival. In this unpaid work I have met with experts, emergency chiefs, childcare and health workers and politicians in all of the major parties. I have been a dual Canadian/Australian citizen for 12 years. I am not, and never have been, a member of any political party.
Manus Island violence: Fatal violence occurred after G4S guards went in, PNG report finds
The violent clashes on Manus Island that left an Iranian asylum seeker dead happened after local G4S descended on protesting asylum-seekers, a preliminary police briefing has indicated.
▻http://www.canberratimes.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/manus-island-violence-fatal-violence-occurred-after-g4s-guards-wen
Manus Camp A Human ’Experiment’: Staff
A migration agent who was employed at the Manus Island detention camp during last week’s violence has told SBS Dateline the centre is not a processing facility - it’s a deterrence mechanism
▻https://newmatilda.com/2014/02/25/manus-camp-human-experiment-staff
Manus Victims ’Treated Better Than Australians’ : Cornall
EXCLUSIVE: The man who will review last week’s violence on Manus has previously said sexually abused detainees on the island are treated better than Australian rape victims. Marni Cordell reports
▻https://newmatilda.com/2014/02/27/detainees-treated-better-australians-cornall
Consultant investigating Manus Island unrest insists he is independent
Robert Cornall says ‘payment of a fee for professional services does not affect independent judgment’
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/consultant-investigating-manus-insists-independent
Big bills and tax havens: The business of immigration detention
The sacked operator of a controversial immigration detention centre at Manus Island, G4S, paid no Australian tax in 2012, Fairfax Media has learnt.
▻http://www.smh.com.au/business/big-bills-and-tax-havens-the-business-of-immigration-detention-20140228-33pm
The Manus menace that’s a ticking time bomb
Much has been written about Australia’s moral compass over the past few weeks. Some social commentators opine that sending asylum seekers to Papua New Guinea is cruel, not only because of their indefinite detention, but because they have been sent to a supposed hellhole - to a dangerous, ’’deeply unliveable’’ country racked by ’’raskol’’ lawlessness.
▻http://www.smh.com.au/comment/the-manus-menace-thats-a-ticking-time-bomb-20140301-33sxn.html
$3.5m spent on Manus Island detention centre’s kitchen defended
The Department of Immigration and Border Protection has defended paying $3.5 million to Toll Holdings for a tent kitchen at its Manus Island detention centre.
A spokesman for Immigration Minister Scott Morrison said the department ’’closely adheres’’ to Commonwealth procurement guidelines that ’’specify the need to obtain value for money for all expenditure of public funds’’.
The department rented the tent kitchen from Toll when the centre re-opened in October 2012, then bought it outright a year later.
’’The lease of the kitchen included mobilisation, installation, the kitchen structure, kitchen equipment, power generation, refrigeration, water storage and airconditioning,’’ the spokesman said. ’’The purchase of the kitchen was deemed better value for money than the costs associated with demobilisation when the lease concluded.’’
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The department also defended increases in the amounts paid to contractors G4S and Transfield Services to run offshore detention centres. Transfield, which wrested the Manus contract from G4S last week, will be paid $1.22 billion to run the Manus and Nauru centres for 20 months. This equates to about $900 a day for each detainee.
’’The value of the contract with Transfield reflects the cost based on current transferee numbers at Nauru and Manus OPCs [offshore processing centres] over the contract period,’’ the spokesman said.
’’Following the change in policy in July 2013, and the expansion of necessary infrastructure, the two OPCs have been gradually increasing transferee numbers to the current levels. The lower costs to date reflect this gradual increase and that transferee numbers have not been constant.’’
He said giving Transfield both contracts would ’’ensure continuity, consistency and integration of service delivery across both OPCs as well as maximising efficiency and value for money’’.
Transfield is to take full control of the Manus Island detention centre on March 28.
▻http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/35m-spent-on-manus-island-detention-centres-kitchen-defended-20140302-33u0x.
Scott Morrison has 66 spin doctors
The Immigration Department employs a 66-strong team of spin doctors, dwarfing the 39 media and communications staff employed by Prime Minister Tony Abbott and the ministers on his frontbench.
▻http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/scott-morrison-has-66-spin-doctors-20140301-33sqv.html
Manus Island riot : G4S employee contradicts leaked PNG police report into violence at detention centre
An Australian employee of the G4S security firm on Manus Island says PNG police stood back and allowed locals to break into the compound last month, did nothing to stop them beating detainees, and in some cases participated in the violence and intimidation.
▻http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-04/g4s-employee-contradicts-png-police-report-into-manus-riot/5295740
Manus Island document mentions 14 alleged unaccompanied minors
Leaked notes raise more questions about whether children were present during February’s unrest, which left one man dead
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/04/manus-island-document-mentions-14-alleged-unaccompanied-minors?CMP=twt_
Manus Island can’t cope with settlers, Governor Charlie Benjamin warns
Manus Island will not welcome asylum seekers as permanent settlers, the island’s governor has warned, blaming the threat of climate change and rising sea waters.
▻http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/manus-island-cant-cope-with-settlers-governor-charlie-benjamin-warns-2014
Manus Island: Inside the horror
Like many, I watched with horror as the recent violence at Manus Island unfolded. But not with surprise. Last year I worked on the island as the occupational health and safety manager for the security firm G4S.
It was clear to me then that the mixture of an overcrowded and insecure camp, inexperienced local guards and a tormented population of refugees was a lethal combination. I reported as much to my immediate superiors and the Department of Immigration.
▻http://www.theage.com.au/comment/manus-island-inside-the-horror-20140306-349x8.html
Australia Will Keep Detaining Refugees Indefinitely, Whatever the World Thinks
Canberra says it’s a matter of security and deterring people smugglers, but detainees pay a heavy price
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▻http://time.com/13682/australia-asylum-seeker-policy-compared-to-guantanamo
Budget blowout on #Christmas_Island
The cost of housing Immigration Department staff on Christmas Island has blown out by $11 million since December, despite the number of asylum seekers detained on the island falling by more than 430 people in that time.
Staff working at the Christmas Island detention centre and ’’alternative places of accommodation’’ - lower-security facilities where families are held - are housed at the Christmas Island Resort, owned by Soft Star Pty Ltd.
The resort, which boasts a fine dining restaurant and nightclub, charges $285 a night for a single room, although the Department of Immigration is charged a bulk-rate for staff staying at the facility.
▻http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/budget-blowout-on-christmas-island-20140308-34e3t.html
Australian police declined to interview ’tortured’ Sri Lankan asylum seeker
Exclusive: Cable from high commission in Colombo says AFP turned down offer to meet man repatriated from Christmas Island
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/11/repatriated-sri-lankan-asylum-seekers-torture-claims-ignored-by-police
Manus Island local staff ’locked out’ amid security fears
Manus Island detainees say PNG local staff have been prevented from re-entering the facility after threats of further violence, including throat-slitting gestures.
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▻http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/03/11/manus-island-local-staff-locked-out-amid-security-fears
Manus Island unsafe – refugee advocates warn against letting attackers back into camp
Refugee advocates are warning of new dangers of attacks on asylum seekers if local staff are re-introduced into the Manus Island detention centre.
Local and national PNG staff and police have been excluded from the detention centre since the night of 17 February when Reza Berati was killed and at least 77 others brutally bashed.
There are now moves by senior detention management to allow local PNG security staff back into the detention centre as soon as today (Tuesday 11 March).
The move has terrified asylum seekers in the camp. Since the 17 February, asylum seekers have been subject to daily threats of being attacked and killed. “Locals” make throat-cutting gestures directed at asylum seekers and there are reports of protests by machete wielding locals outside the perimeter wire of the detention centre.
The asylum seekers are also being pressured to agree to the re-introduction of locals by declining food quality and amount, which is being prepared outside the camp. Authorities have rejected offers by the asylum seekers to prepare and cook the food themselves.
PNG amends constitution to protect Manus detention centre
The Papua New Guinea government has amended the country’s constitution to provide legal protection for the Manus Island detention centre.
▻http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/pacific/radio/program/pacific-beat/png-amends-constitution-to-protect-manus-detention-centre/1290320
Email warnings: Manus Island security ’unprepared’
A Manus Island security guard warned colleagues that the detention centre was ’’totally unprepared’’ for any major incident, months before an Iranian asylum seeker was killed in violent clashes.
▻http://www.watoday.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/email-warnings-manus-island-security-unprepared-20140418-36wfl.html
The Manus Island escape plan that went badly wrong
It was a plan hatched in a hurry, driven by anger, frustration and desperation and doomed to fail almost as soon, and as shambolically, as it was activated.
Read more: ▻http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/the-manus-island-escape-plan-that-went-badly-wrong-20140421-zqxaj.html#ixzz2
▻http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/the-manus-island-escape-plan-that-went-badly-wrong-20140421-zqxaj.html
Exclusive: inside the Manus Island riot
▻http://media.smh.com.au/national/selections/exclusive-inside-the-manus-island-riot-5366336.html
Sleepless nights until the Manus nightmare ends
In my day job in the construction industry, I specialise in alternative dispute resolution in the thriving gas pipeline sector in Western Australia. By night, I get to follow my true passion as a human rights advocate. I work with the men, women and children interned in the Manus Island, Nauru and Christmas Island detention centres. I speak with them daily, organise lawyers to represent them and co-ordinate complaints on their behalf (complaints are taken more seriously if an Australian lodges them). I sometimes put them in touch with journalists.
Read more: ▻http://www.theage.com.au/comment/sleepless-nights-until-the-manus-nightmare-ends-20140422-zqxq2.html#ixzz2
▻http://www.theage.com.au/comment/sleepless-nights-until-the-manus-nightmare-ends-20140422-zqxq2.html
Nauru guards accused of assaulting children
►http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/24/nauru-guards-accused-of-assaulting-children
Nauru guards accused of assaulting children
Exclusive: Charity worker’s letter says guard hit girl so hard on head that she fell to the ground
►http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/24/nauru-guards-accused-of-assaulting-children
Breaking : Detention Centres Are Still Horrible
The death of Reza Barati on February 17 gave us the most recent reminder of the challenges asylum seeker detention centres bring. They’re tinderboxes, ready to ignite, often sitting dangerously close to a flame. Recently released footage of the events that unfolded on Manus Island 24-hours before the riot that killed Barati, again highlights the dangerous tension that exists in centres. In the footage PNG national employees of security company G4S can be seen attacking asylum seekers who have taken cover in one of the detention centre buildings, until an Australian employee arrives and moves the crowd along. The events escalated when asylum seekers attempted to flee the detention centre after being told they would never settle in Australia. PNG G4S staff arriving for work foiled their attempt, shifting asylum seeker resentment away from the Australian government and on to the PNG employees. Tensions grew when detainees began yelling, “Fuck PNG!”, some exposed themselves to people walking along the road outside the centre. The anger in the Manus Island community simmered, spurred by malicious rumours of asylum seekers intentions and the derogatory chants. What happened next we all know. These events reveal the dangerous circumstances that would culminate in the riot that killed Reza Barati one day later. They also highlight fundamental issues with offshore detention centres: security, staff training, and local awareness. While we wait for the government to make a report in to the events public, all we can do is wonder when will it happen again?
▻http://www.vice.com/read/breaking-detention-centres-are-still-horrible
Build-up to Manus unrest, new video footage emerges
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/may/01/build-up-to-manus-unrest-new-video-footage-emerges
#G4S guard describes standoff between asylum seekers and PNG guards
Manus expat guards had to ‘jump on’ asylum seekers to stop PNG guards from kicking them, says Australian guard
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/01/g4s-guard-describes-standoff-between-asylum-seekers-and-png-guards?CMP=
’I was under the belief they wanted to kill every single one of the clients’, security guard tells Manus Island inquiry
Up to 40 shots were fired in the deadly Manus Island violence as local Papua New Guinea guards went on a killing spree with the intent to kill every asylum seeker, an Australian guard has described in his submission to an inquiry into the attack.
▻http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/i-was-under-the-belief-they-wanted-to-kill-every-single-one-of-the-client
Scott Morrison visit sent Manus tension soaring, says G4S whistleblower
• Former security officer Martin Appleby talks exclusively to Guardian Australia, the first guard to speak out
• Minister ’put security at risk’ when he told asylum seekers they would never see Australia
• Detention centre beset by lack of proper procedures, unprofessional conduct and atrocious conditions, Appleby says
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/28/scott-morrison-visit-sent-manus-tension-soaring-says-g4s-whistleblower?
Former Manus Island guards design ’survivor’ T-shirt to mark unrest
Facebook conversation suggests calling the February riots, which left one asylum seeker dead, a ’rock fest’
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/13/former-manus-island-guards-design-survivor-t-shirt-to-celebrate-unrest?
Australian company on Manus ’lacked honesty and integrity’ – US agency
Raecorp barred from seeking US contracts for three years for inappropriate tax claims and failing to pay subcontractors
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/20/australian-company-on-manus-lacked-honesty-and-integrity-us-agency?CMP=
Scott Morrison was wrong: no psychiatrist on Manus Island
Three months after the deadly violence on Manus Island there is still not a full-time psychiatrist on Manus Island’s detention centre, despite Immigration Minister Scott Morrison assuring human rights organisations there was.
▻http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/scott-morrison-was-wrong-no-psychiatrist-on-manus-island-20140517-38gix.h
Why won’t Scott Morrison answer Amnesty’s questions ?
After our major report on conditions on Manus Island, immigration minister Scott Morrison agreed to improve conditions in the detention centre. Over five months later, we’re still waiting
▻http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/21/why-wont-scott-morrison-answer-amnestys-questions
Christmas Is strike under control : govt
Hundreds of Christmas Island asylum seekers are on a hunger strike with some stitching together their lips, a refugee group says.
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▻http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/06/01/christmas-strike-under-control-govt
Asylum seekers’ ’mouths sewn shut’ during Christmas Island protests
Refugee advocates say up to 400 asylum seekers on Christmas Island are involved in a week-long protest against their detention.
▻http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-06-01/asylum-seekers-on-christmas-island-in-fresh-protest/5492122?section=wa
First asylum seekers convicted of rioting at Nauru detention centre
The first two asylum seekers convicted of rioting at the Nauru detention centre will be sentenced on Thursday.
In July 2013, rampaging asylum seekers torched the centre causing $60 million damage.
Newly constructed accommodation blocks, the health centre, offices, the dining room and vehicles were burnt. Only the kitchen and recreation facility remained standing.
There are 63 asylum seekers facing criminal charges stemming from the riots.
The two asylum seekers awaiting sentencing on Thursday had been remanded in custody at the Nauru Correctional Centre since their rioting and unlawful assembly convictions last month.
A spokeswoman for the Nauru government said the convictions would not affect the asylum seekers’ claims for refugee status but it might affect settlement.
▻http://www.watoday.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/first-asylum-seekers-convicted-of-rioting-at-nauru-detention-centre-2014
Manus riots inevitable: former guard
A former guard at the Manus Island detention centre says the violent riots in February in which an asylum seeker was killed were “inevitable”.
▻http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/06/11/manus-riots-inevitable-former-guard
Manus Island inquiry: Students tell of working in detention centres without job interviews, training
Two former workers at offshore immigration centres have told a Senate inquiry they were recruited by the Salvation Army through social media and were not given any training before being sent overseas.
▻http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/2014-06-12/manus-island-inquiry-students-tell-of-working-in-detention-centres-without-job-interviews-training/1326136
Article scientifique:
Despair as a Governing Strategy: Australia and the Offshore Processing of Asylum-Seekers on Nauru
Tasmania Wants To Use 100 Percent Renewable Energy By 2020 | ThinkProgress
▻http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/11/26/2996241/tasmania-renewable-energy-plan
Tasmania has given the climate community something to smile about after months of frowning toward Australia. Since being elected in September, Prime Minister Tony Abbott has been waging an anti-climate crusade. He’s abandoned the country’s long-held emissions reduction target, taken steps towards repealing the carbon emissions trading scheme, and started an international row with the likes of Al Gore and U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres over climate change’s role in this year’s intense, early season bushfires.
Amidst all that, Abbott also found time to slash funding for renewable energy. Now Tasmania, Australia’s island state off the southeastern edge of the continent, has taken it’s own initiative in the face of Abbott’s many setbacks and released a climate change strategy aimed at achieving 100 percent renewable power usage by 2020.
Tasmania’s new plan — known as the Climate Smart Tasmania plan — includes energy reduction targets across multiple sectors with an interim 2020 target to reduce carbon emissions to 35 percent below 1990 levels.
Dans le genre anecdotique :
▻http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/eij/article/kick_back_relax_offset_your_co2
Since 2007, New Zealand, Norway, Iceland, Tuvalu, Bhutan, and The Maldives have committed to going carbon neutral, and the race is on to see which nation can meet the milestone first. It appears that Costa Rica, the first country to make the zero-emissions pledge, is poised to win the “Carbon-Neutral World Cup.”
Stop using ‘illegal’ label: 138 groups appeal to PM
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has received an appeal from 138 organisations asking him to stop the Australian Government’s use of the term “illegal maritime arrivals” for asylum seekers arriving by boat.
The joint letter, coordinated by the Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA) and supported by non-government agencies, faith-based organisations and community groups, was sent to the Prime Minister yesterday.
RCOA chief executive officer Paul Power said the letter was developed in response to requests from concerned Australians wishing to see a joint response to last month’s decision of the Australian Government that Government staff and contractors must use the term “illegal maritime arrivals” when referring to asylum seekers arriving by boat.
▻http://www.refugeecouncil.org.au/n/mr/131106_Not_illegal.pdf
#Australie #réfugié #asile #migration #terminologie #no_one_is_illegal #migration_illégale
#Australie : le nouveau Premier ministre #Tony_Abbott veut lutter contre l’#immigration
Tony Abbott, dont le parti conservateur vient de gagner les élections en Australie, a promis dimanche de s’attaquer en priorité à l’immigration, en renforçant la surveillance des bateaux de migrants asiatiques venant demander l’#asile.
▻http://www.france24.com/fr/20130908-australie-nouveau-premier-ministre-tony-abbott-veut-lutter-contre