Bring Julian Assange Home
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/bring-julian-assange-home
The persecution of Julian Assange must end. Or it will end in tragedy.
The Australian government and prime minister Malcolm Turnbull have an historic opportunity to decide which it will be.
They...
Récidive de Merkel : sans consulter ses partenaires de l’UE, elle dit à l’ONU que l’Union européenne acceptera 40.000 réfugiés supplémentaires tous les ans !
▻https://www.crashdebug.fr/international/13859-recidive-de-merkel-sans-consulter-ses-partenaires-de-l-ue-elle-dit-
J’ai une bonne nouvelles ils arrivent à Paris.... Que vas faire le gouvernement ? Rien..... Car n’oubliez pas que l’objectif de l’Europe est d’acceuillir 50.000.000 de migrants afros-muslumans d’ici 2060
Angela Merkel veut que l’UE accueille 40.000 réfugiés supplémentaires en provenance du Moyen-Orient tous les ans. Pourtant, si l’on en croit la conversation du président américain Donald Trump avec le Premier ministre australien Malcolm Turnbull, qui a filtré dans la presse début août, Angela Merkel reconnaîtrait elle-même que sa décision prise en solitaire en 2015 de passer outre aux accords de Dublin en ouvrant les frontières de l’Allemagne aux « réfugiés » avait été une grave erreur. Pourtant encore, selon les aveux de l’allié du chancelier en Bavière, le ministre-président (...)
Peta Credlin says Malcolm Turnbull snubs people for iPhone
▻http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4638644/Peta-Credlin-says-Malcolm-Turnbull-snubs-people-iPhone.html
’Anyone who has sat in a meeting with the Prime Minister knows they have 10 minutes to get to the point before he loses interest and starts to fidget for his technological fix,’ Ms Credlin said about Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
Ms Credlin described the Prime Minister as a ’fiend with a smartphone, tablet, or whatever hot new thing is “it”’.
’It used to be the BlackBerry as he scrolled through emails with the addiction so pronounced we used to warn people that as soon as it was in his hand, the meeting was in “wind-up” mode and they had to pitch like an ad executive about to lose their biggest client,’ she wrote.
’Now it’s the iPhone and the warning’s still the same.’
Entretien téléphonique samedi 18h entre Poutine et Trump
▻https://www.crashdebug.fr/international/13112-entretien-telephonique-samedi-18h-entre-poutine-et-trump
Washington compte que les négociations téléphoniques entre Donald Trump et Vladimir Poutine auront lieu aujourd’hui à 18H00 (heure de Paris).
D’après son agenda, le président américain Donald Trump envisage de mener des négociations téléphoniques avec le président russe Vladimir Poutine ce samedi à midi heure de Washington (18h00 heure de Paris) depuis le Bureau ovale, a annoncé une source au sein de la Maison Blanche.
Il a également indiqué qu’avant cela, le président comptait joindre le premier ministre japonais Shinzō Abe et la chancelière allemande Angela Merkel. Après avoir passé un coup de fil à Vladimir Poutine, poursuit la source, M. Trump envisage de téléphoner au président français François Hollande et au premier ministre australien Malcolm Turnbull.
Rappelons que vendredi dernier, le (...)
#En_vedette #Actualités_internationales #Actualités_Internationales
Australian government unveils brutal refugee deal with the US - World Socialist Web Site
▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/11/14/refu-n14.html
Australian government unveils brutal refugee deal with the US
By Max Newman
14 November 2016
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull yesterday announced a one-off “resettlement” deal with the United States that will forcibly remove to the US some of the 2,200 refugees who have rotted since 2013 in Australia’s prison camps on Nauru and Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island.
At a media conference in the government’s Maritime Border Command headquarters, Turnbull declared that Australia’s naval “Operation Sovereign Borders,” which organises the interception and turn back of refugee boats, would be boosted to its highest-ever level.
In return for taking a limited number of heavily-vetted asylum seekers, the Obama administration will deport to #Australia some Central American refugees currently languishing in #camps in #Costa_Rica, having been denied entry to the US. On both sides of the Pacific, some of the world’s most vulnerable people will be denied the basic right to seek protection, while many will face permanent separation from their families.
Far from alleviating the horrors produced by Australia’s “offshore” detention regime, the new deal will see hundreds of families split up forever, with many detainees, especially single men, unable to reunite with their spouses and children in Australia.
Refugees on #Nauru and #Manus_Island to be resettled in US – as it happened
▻https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2016/nov/13/australia-nauru-manus-island-refugee-detainee-announcement-live?CMP=sha
Australie : des réfugiés pourront s’installer aux Etats-Unis
Des réfugiés relégués par l’Australie dans des camps controversés sur des îles du Pacifique seront réinstallés aux Etats-Unis aux termes d’un « accord exceptionnel » avec ce pays, a annoncé dimanche Canberra, en soulignant que sa politique d’intransigeance envers les migrants restait inchangée.
▻http://www.courrierinternational.com/depeche/australie-des-refugies-pourront-sinstaller-aux-etats-unis.afp
Les Etats-Unis vont accueillir les réfugiés des centres de rétention australiens
Cela fait quatre ans qu’ils croupissent dans des centres de rétention. Les migrants enfermés par l’Australie sur des îles du Pacifique sortent de l’impasse. Canberra n’en veut toujours pas, mais les Etats-Unis vont en accueillir pour offrir à ces personnes une deuxième chance. Combien ? Pas encore de chiffre officiel. Mais les deux pays ont annoncé un accord historique ce dimanche 13 novembre 2016. A ce jour, 1 616 personnes retenues sur Nauru et Manus, sur environ 2 000 au total, ont obtenu le statut de réfugié.
▻http://www.rfi.fr/ameriques/20161113-etats-unis-refugies-migrants-australie-retention-papouasie-accord?ns_mc
Australia’s refugee deal may be scuppered by Trump, US expert warns
Immigration expert Niels Frenzen says Trump will want something in return if he is to honour the deal to take refugees from Nauru and Manus Island
▻https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/nov/15/trump-tear-up-australia-refugee-deal-us-expert-warns?CMP=Share_iOSApp_O
UNHCR to endorse Australia-United States relocations as “offshore processing” arrangements fail refugees
The approach taken by Australia in transferring refugees and asylum-seekers to open-ended detention in Papua New Guinea and Nauru has caused immense harm to vulnerable people who have sought asylum since 2013. In this context, UNHCR welcomes the announcement today that refugees currently held in Nauru and Papua New Guinea will be relocated under a bilateral arrangement between Australia and the United States.
Refugees on Nauru and Manus Island to be resettled in US – as it happened
Malcolm Turnbull announces one-off agreement for refugees on Manus Island and Nauru to be resettled in US under auspices of the UNHCR
▻https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2016/nov/13/australia-nauru-manus-island-refugee-detainee-announcement-live?platfor
Sudanese refugee dies in Brisbane hospital after medivac from Manus
A 27-year-old Sudanese refugee held on Manus Island has died following “a fall and seizure” inside the Australian-run detention centre.
It is understood the man, who had reportedly been unwell for several months, collapsed and suffered head injuries inside the detention centre on Friday. He was then evacuated to Royal Brisbane and Women’s hospital, where he died on Saturday.
▻https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/dec/24/sudanese-refugee-dies-in-brisbane-hospital-after-medivac-from-manus?CMP
Refugee pleaded with doctors on Manus Island for help before his death
Detainees’ letter claims medical staff ignored months of escalating complaints before #Faysal_Ishak_Ahmed collapsed
Manus : les migrants se révoltent
Samedi soir, des migrants se sont révoltés au centre de rétention de Manus, en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée pour protester contre la mort d’un jeune réfugié.
▻http://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/nouvellecaledonie/manus-migrants-se-revoltent-428351.html
’Bashed’ asylum seekers on Manus Island ’deserved what they got’: PNG minister
Manus Island MP Ronny Knight has declared that two asylum seekers who say they were bashed by police and PNG immigration officials on New Year’s Eve “deserved what they got”.
Manus Island refugees riot over food
60 refugees and guards fought a running battle yesterday at Australia’s refugee detention centre on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island.
▻http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/328494/manus-island-refugees-riot-over-food
#alimentation
Photos show bullets fired into Manus Island detention accommodation, not just air: Amnesty
Human rights group Amnesty International has found the Australian Government downplayed the danger asylum seekers on Manus Island faced when the detention centre was attacked by soldiers from the Papua New Guinea Defence Force.
▻http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-15/federal-government-downplayed-asylum-seeker-danger-amnesty-says/8525350
L’#Australie sous le choc de la #maltraitance de détenus #mineurs
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/asie-pacifique/article/2016/07/26/l-australie-sous-le-choc-de-la-maltraitance-de-detenus-mineurs_4974834_3216.
Le premier ministre australien, Malcolm Turnbull, a annoncé, mardi 26 juillet, l’ouverture d’une enquête concernant le traitement des mineurs placés en centres de détention après la diffusion lundi soir d’images vidéo montrant notamment des gardiens de prison soumettant des détenus adolescents à des gaz lacrymogènes ou encore attachant à une chaise un garçon encagoulé et à moitié nu.
C’est la vidéo qui provoque le choc, ou le fait que ce sont des enfants de nationalité australienne ? Car les mauvais traitements sont dénoncés depuis longtemps — en 2002, par exemple, plusieurs centaines de demandeurs d’asile incarcérés à Woomera, ancien centre d’essais nucléaires, font une grève de la faim et une quarantaine se cousent les lèvres.
Les deux sûrement.
Australia’s ‘Atrocity’: The Mandatory Detention of Minors Continues
The far-right One Nation party’s re-entry to the Australian parliament after 20 years is likely to entrench already harsh asylum policies that enjoy bipartisan support. These include the mandatory detention of children, writes Greek-Australian journalist Kia Mistilis.
https://newsdeeply.imgix.net/20160801140523/AFGHANISTAN-ASYLUM-SEEKERS.jpg?w=640&fit=max&q=60&dpr=2 
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Australian Child Rights Progress Report
A report released today by the Australian Child Rights Taskforce highlights that despite two decades of consecutive economic growth, one in six children in Australia still lives below the poverty line and more than 70,000 received assistance from specialist homelessness services, with no view of a long term solution.
The report marks 25 years since Australia ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, agreeing to a set of standards and obligations for all children. The report considers the progress – and lack thereof – for children across a number of key social policy areas including family life, education and care, justice and health, and what this has meant for children. While considerable progress has been made in protecting child rights in Australia, there are a number of entrenched challenges that still need to be addressed.
The report specifically identifies that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender or Intersex (LGBTI) children, children from rural areas, children with disabilities and children from migrant backgrounds are still more likely to experience poverty, discrimination, social exclusion and disadvantage.
▻http://www.childrights.org.au/crc25
#Australie #détention #peuples_autochtones #asile #réfugiés #migrations #enfants #enfance #prison #emprisonnement #détention_administrative #rétention #droits_des_enfants #aborigènes #LGBT
Pour télécharger le rapport : ▻http://www.unicef.org.au/Upload/UNICEF/Media/Documents/CRC25-Australian-Progress-Report.pdf
’Abu Ghraib’-style images of children in detention in Australia trigger public inquiry
Australian prime minister says he is ‘deeply shocked and appalled’ by footage of teenager being hooded in a restraint chair and other apparent abuses
Des images de détenus mineurs maltraités choquent l’Australie
Le premier ministre australien Malcolm Turnbull a annoncé mardi l’ouverture d’une enquête concernant le traitement de mineurs placés dans des centres de détention, après la diffusion d’images montrant des gardiens de prison soumettant des détenus adolescents à des gaz lacrymogènes ou encore attachant à une chaise un garçon cagoulé et à moitié nu.
▻http://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/International/2016/07/26/003-maltraitance-prisonniers-australie-mineurs-aborigenes-autochton
Australia’s ‘Atrocity’: The Mandatory Detention of Minors Continues
The far-right One Nation party’s re-entry to the Australian parliament after 20 years is likely to entrench already harsh asylum policies that enjoy bipartisan support. These include the mandatory detention of children, writes Greek-Australian journalist Kia Mistilis.
►https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/op-eds/2016/08/01/australias-atrocity-the-mandatory-detention-of-minors-continues
The Anti-Shia Movement in Indonesia
▻http://www.understandingconflict.org/en/conflict/read/50/THE-ANTI-SHIA-MOVEMENT-IN-INDONESIA
(Jakarta, 27 April 2016) The convergence of a non-violent hardline campaign against Shi’ism with a new determination of pro-ISIS groups to wage war at home is increasing the possibility of violent attacks on Indonesia’s Shi’a minority.
The Anti-Shi’a Movement in Indonesia, the latest report from the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC), examines the history of anti-Shi’a movement in Indonesia and the reasons for its newfound intensity. Three distinct groups are involved: Saudi-oriented Salafis who see Shi’ism as a deviant sect; a conservative fringe of the large Muslim social organisation Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) that is worried about competition from Shi’a schools, especially in East Java; and those influenced by ISIS propaganda that Shi’a are enemies who must be killed. The last is by far the smallest but several anti-Shi’a plots have already been foiled by police.
Le rapport au format PDF :
▻http://file.understandingconflict.org/file/2016/04/IPAC_Report_27.pdf
B. Saudi Arabia and the Salafis in the 1980s
At the same time that the Iranian revolution was causing concern in government circles, it was triggering a reaction in Saudi-supported Salafi circles. Chief among the Salafi-Influenced groups was Dewan Dakwah Islamiyah Indonesia (DDII), an organisation established in 1967 by Muhammad Natsir, the former leader of Masyumi. DDII’s link to Saudi was clear: it served as the Indonesian representative of Rabitah Alam Islami (World Muslim League), the Mecca-based organisation dedicated to strengthening Saudi Arabia’s cultural and religious influence in the Muslim world through the propagation of Wahhabism.39
DDII’s da’wah agenda was related as much to Saudi Arabia’s geopolitical interests as to the local context. In the 1960s and 1970s when the Saudi leadership was preoccupied with curtailing the in uence of Gamal Abdul Nasser’s “Arab Socialism”, DDII focused on combating Commu- nism in Indonesia, just as Soeharto was purging the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI).40 Once Nasserism failed, the Iranian revolution threatened Saudi Arabia’s supremacy as the leader of the Islamic world. The Saudi government began to use various charity organisations to curtail Iranian influence by supporting anti-Shia campaigns, and DDII soon adopted this agenda. One scholar writes:
No doubt encouraged by their Saudi and Kuwaiti sponsors,[DDII] polemicized against Shi’ism as a fatal deviation from Islam and published an unending series of anti-Shi’a tracts and books. Their activities appeared to be focused increasingly on perceived threats: threats from within (Shi’a, Islamic liberalism) as well as threats from without: the Christian and Jewish threats to the world of Islam.41
In 1982, DDII’s monthly magazine, Media Dakwah, published what appears to be its first anti-Iran/anti-Shi’a article entitled “Iran Ready to Wage Ideological Invasion”. In explaining the threat of Khomeini’s Shi’ism to Muslim countries, the article argued that the imamah doctrine propagated by Khomeini entailed an expansionist ambition to “conquer the entire Islamic world [and] rule over the entire 900-million population of Muslims in the world”.42
The anti-Shi’a campaign during this period was characterised by intellectual challenges to Shi’a doctrines, often by distorting them in a way designed to incite fear and hatred among Sunnis. The focus on the imminent danger of revolution may have reflected Saudi support, but it was also a way that DDII could present itself as a “friend” of the government in the context of Soeharto’s wariness of Islamic movements. DDII was established as a non-political movement precisely to avoid the fate of its predecessor, the Masyumi party. The 1990s saw the campaign change into more direct political lobbying for a ban on Shi’ism.
Rappel, ce passage de l’article consacré à la « doctrine Obama » :
►http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/04/the-obama-doctrine/471525
Though he has argued, controversially, that the Middle East’s conflicts “date back millennia,” he also believes that the intensified Muslim fury of recent years was encouraged by countries considered friends of the U.S. In a meeting during apec with Malcolm Turnbull, the new prime minister of Australia, Obama described how he has watched Indonesia gradually move from a relaxed, syncretistic Islam to a more fundamentalist, unforgiving interpretation; large numbers of Indonesian women, he observed, have now adopted the hijab, the Muslim head covering.
Why, Turnbull asked, was this happening?
Because, Obama answered, the Saudis and other Gulf Arabs have funneled money, and large numbers of imams and teachers, into the country. In the 1990s, the Saudis heavily funded Wahhabist madrassas, seminaries that teach the fundamentalist version of Islam favored by the Saudi ruling family, Obama told Turnbull. Today, Islam in Indonesia is much more Arab in orientation than it was when he lived there, he said.
“Aren’t the Saudis your friends?,” Turnbull asked.
Obama smiled. “It’s complicated,” he said.
..a non-violent hardline campaign against Shi’ism
Comme celle que mènent assidûment al-Kanz et sa troupe en France.
The Obama Doctrine
►http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/04/the-obama-doctrine/471525
Dans cet article Israel ce n’est pas « les Juifs » mais Israel et c’est très bien ainsi, mais pourquoi les pays du Golfe c’est « les Arabes » ?
Parce que c’est #Jeffrey_Goldberg
“A widely held sentiment inside the White House is that many of the most prominent foreign-policy #think_tanks in Washington are doing the bidding of their Arab and pro-Israel funders. I’ve heard one administration official refer to Massachusetts Avenue, the home of many of these think tanks, as “Arab-occupied territory.””
Via angry arab
Plein de choses intéressantes dans cette gigantesque interview. Plein de mensonges aussi et d’arrangements d’Obama avec la vérité.
Though he has argued, controversially, that the Middle East’s conflicts “date back millennia,” he also believes that the intensified Muslim fury of recent years was encouraged by countries considered friends of the U.S. In a meeting during apec with Malcolm Turnbull, the new prime minister of Australia, Obama described how he has watched Indonesia gradually move from a relaxed, syncretistic Islam to a more fundamentalist, unforgiving interpretation; large numbers of Indonesian women, he observed, have now adopted the hijab, the Muslim head covering.
Why, Turnbull asked, was this happening?
Because, Obama answered, the Saudis and other Gulf Arabs have funneled money, and large numbers of imams and teachers, into the country. In the 1990s, the Saudis heavily funded Wahhabist madrassas, seminaries that teach the fundamentalist version of Islam favored by the Saudi ruling family, Obama told Turnbull. Today, Islam in Indonesia is much more Arab in orientation than it was when he lived there, he said.
“Aren’t the Saudis your friends?,” Turnbull asked.
Obama smiled. “It’s complicated,” he said.
Obama’s patience with Saudi Arabia has always been limited. In his first foreign-policy commentary of note, that 2002 speech at the antiwar rally in Chicago, he said, “You want a fight, President Bush? Let’s fight to make sure our so-called allies in the Middle East—the Saudis and the Egyptians—stop oppressing their own people, and suppressing dissent, and tolerating corruption and inequality.” In the White House these days, one occasionally hears Obama’s National Security Council officials pointedly reminding visitors that the large majority of 9/11 hijackers were not Iranian, but Saudi—and Obama himself rails against Saudi Arabia’s state-sanctioned misogyny, arguing in private that “a country cannot function in the modern world when it is repressing half of its population.” In meetings with foreign leaders, Obama has said, “You can gauge the success of a society by how it treats its women.”
His frustration with the Saudis informs his analysis of Middle Eastern power politics. At one point I observed to him that he is less likely than previous presidents to axiomatically side with Saudi Arabia in its dispute with its archrival, Iran. He didn’t disagree.
Un bout de traduction en fançais
Barack Obama se confie à « The Atlantic »
▻http://www.lematin.ch/monde/Bientot-hors-de-la-Maison-Blanche-Obama-se-confie-/story/21226617
Je pense, étant donné la densité et l’intérêt de cette interview qu’il pourrait être utile qu’un certain nombre de seen thissiens anglicisants et intéressés par le Proche-Orient et la géopolitique mondiale s’assignent la tâche d’en extraire les passages les plus dignes d’intérêt, de les résumer et de les commenter sous le tag #Obama_doctrine.
Moon of Alabama a déjà fait un commentaire en s’intéressant au côté blanchiment qu’opère Obama de sa politique : ▻http://www.moonofalabama.org/2016/03/the-obama-doctrine-is-to-whitewash-his-foreign-policy.html
Et bien entendu, pour les (larbins de luxe des) pays du Golfe comme pour Jeffrey Goldberg « les Arabes » c’est les pays du Golfe,
▻http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/03/obama-doctrine-middle-east/473178
It is as if the president of the United States is declaring a whole generation of Arabs as the devil’s rejects.
#Bande_de_fumistes (#Obama compris)
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
600 refugees in Australian detention centre write open letter demanding assisted suicide | Australasia | News | The Independent
►http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/refugees-australian-detention-centre-open-letter-assisted-suicide-man
It called on Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Immigration Minister Peter Dutton for “a navy ship that can put us all on board and dump us all in the ocean... a gas chamber... (or) an injection of a poison”.
It said: “As previously we wrote and asked for help and there was no response to our request to be freed out of detention we realised that there are no differences between us and rubbish - but a bunch of slaves that helped to stop the boats by living in hellish condition.
“The only difference is that we are very costly for the Australian tax payers and the politicians as our job to ‘stop the boats’ is done.
ManusIsland.jpg
Facilities at the Manus Island Regional Processing Facility, used for the detention of asylum seekers that arrive by boat
“We are dying in Manus gradually, every single day we are literally tortured and traumatised and there is no safe country to offer us protection.”
600 refugees in Australian detention centre write open letter demanding assisted suicide
Two-thirds of the inhabitants of Manus Island Regional Processing Centre in Papua New Guinea have demanded help end their own lives to escape being ’tortured and traumatised’ every day
►http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/refugees-australian-detention-centre-open-letter-assisted-suicide-man
#lettre #suicide #suicide_assisté #mort #mourir_en_détention #asile #migrations #réfugiés #Australie #Manus_island
cc @reka @albertocampiphoto
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A Christmas letter from Manus
On 30 November 2015, Six hundred men in Manus RPC, PNG, wrote the following letter to Malcolm Turnbull, Prime Minister of Australia and Peter Dutton MP, Minister for Immigration and Border Protection.
The importance of this letter is that it sets a challenge for all of us who are preparing to celebrate Christmas. Read the letter and ask yourself: by treating people this way, are we being true to the Christian spirit, or are we betraying it? Christmas is the time when, according to Christian tradition, Christ’s parents could not readily find shelter as they fled to escape persecution. If they did the same thing today and found themselves in Australia, they would be taken by force to another country where they would be locked up indefinitely in shocking conditions.
This Christmas, we should all face up to some uncomfortable facts:
boat people are not “illegal”: they do not break any law by coming here to seek asylum;
we take them by force to another country (PNG or Nauru);
we imprison them and mistreat them;
we vilify them as “illegal” and sanitise the whole exercise by calling it “border protection”
every aspect of it: the cruelty and the dishonesty, contradicts the most fundamental aspects of Christan teaching;
all of this has been implemented by people who conspicuously proclaim their Christianity, including Kevin Rudd, Tony Abbott, Scott Morrison.
Any government which is willing to tolerate these things cannot possibly describe itself as adhering to the Christian tradition. Likewise any Opposition which does not oppose it. If your Federal MP is a member of the government and sends you a Christmas card this year, you can be pretty confident that he or she is a hypocrite.
Here is the transcribed text of the letter:
30/11/15
Hello Dear Mr Malcolm Turnbull and Peter Dutton.
As the refugees and asylum seekers trapped in Manus Island detention we wold like to request you something different this time.
As previously we wrote and asked for help and there was no respond to our request to be freed out of detention we realized that there are no differences between us and rubbish but a bunch of slaves that helped to stop the boats by living in hellish condition. The only difference is that we are very costly for the Australian tax payers and the Politicians as our job to “stop the boats” is done.
We would like to give you some recommendations to stop the waste of this huge amount of money ruining Australian’s reputation and to keep the Australian boarders safe forever.
1. A navy ship that can put us all on board and dump us all in the ocean. (HMAS is always available)
2. A gas chamber (DECMIL will do it with a new contract)
3. Injection of a poison. (IHMS will help for this)
This is not a joke or a satire and please take it serious.
We are dying in Manus gradually, every single day we are literarly tortured and traumatized and there is no safe country to offer us protection as DIBP says.
Best regards
Merry Christmas in advance
Manus refugees and asylum seekers.
▻http://www.julianburnside.com.au/a-christmas-letter-from-manus