Peter Job

Peter Job has a PhD from the University of New South Wales in International and Political Studies. He is author of A Narrative of Denial: Australia and the Indonesian violation of East Timor, published by Melbourne University Press in 2021. Job was short listed for the 2006 Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Community award for his advocacy for asylum seekers in immigration detention.

Peter is on Twitter @JobPeterjob1.

Recent articles by Peter Job

Denigrating refugees: Media Watch is no exception

Denigrating refugees: Media Watch is no exception

Australian citizens and residents who originally came to this country seeking asylum, as they are clearly entitled to do under international law, have been in the news recently, through no fault of their own and not in a good way. Sections of the media and some politicians have attacked them for doing what all citizens and residents have a right to do, that is to bring their partners and close relatives to Australia.

Palestine – The lessons of East Timor

Palestine – The lessons of East Timor

History teaches us that Palestine, as with East Timor, will be free. Writes Peter Job in Declassifed Australia.

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