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Tag Archives: boat arrivals
MUNGO MacCALLUM. World’s best practice – the Gulags on Manus and Nauru.
At a sparsely attended audience well past prime time at the United Nations General Assembly, Malcolm Turnbull used his pulpit to proclaim that Australia’s border security was the world’s best. And it is – up to a point. Not … Continue reading
JOHN MENADUE. Attacks on refugees tell us more about Malcolm Turnbull than Peter Dutton.
Power doesn’t always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true of power, is that power always reveals.’ Robert Caro. Peter Dutton has ‘form’, so his comments about refugees although disgraceful are not that surprising. The big disappointment … Continue reading
JOHN MENADUE. Refugees and Asylum seekers-‘The only unforgivable sin is despair”
Posted in Politics, Refugees, Immigration
Tagged boat arrivals, drownings at sea, increased refugee intake, John Menadue, mandatory detention, Nauru-and-Manus, orderly departure programs
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Arja Keski-Nummi. Manus – “The Worst Angels of Our Nature”
The PNG Supreme Court decision has again thrown into stark relief the bankrupt nature of Australia’s asylum policy and the disingenuous way that both sides use trite slogans such as “ saving lives” and not “starting up the people smuggling … Continue reading
Posted in International Affairs, Politics, Refugees, Immigration
Tagged Arja Keski-Nummi, boat arrivals, Manus Island, Nauru, politics and people's lives
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John Menadue and Peter Hughes. Slogans versus facts on boat arrivals. Part 1
Reposted from 22/09/2015 How Tony Abbott helped to keep the door open for people smugglers. The ABC provided us with excellent coverage of the Turnbull-Abbott shoot out, but the various commentators still swallowed the myth that Tony Abbott stopped the … Continue reading
Posted in Defence/Security, International Affairs, Politics, Refugees, Immigration
Tagged boat arrivals, John Menadue, Malaysian arrangement, Peter-Hughes, Stopping the boats, Tony abbott and people smugglers
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John Menadue. A graph on boat arrivals for lazy journalists.
I have reposted below an article I wrote on 8 December last year pointing out that Tony Abbott did not stop the boats. But the debate proceeds, assisted by journalists who still claim that Tony Abbott stopped the boats. He … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Politics, Refugees, Immigration
Tagged boat arrivals, boat turn-backs, John Menadue, Kevin Rudd, Malaysian arrangement, Tony Abbott
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John Menadue. Refugees- from toxic politics to a humanitarian policy.
The ALP Federal conference which will be meeting in a week’s time, will be considering refugee policy along with other major issues. I have re-posted below a post from 22 June on refugees . Media reports suggest that boat … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Refugees, Immigration
Tagged boat arrivals, increase in refugee numbers, Indochina program, John Menadue, mandatory detention, Manus and Nauru, new migration pathways, offshore detention, Orderly-Departure-Agreements, Regional cooperation., Stopping the boats
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John Menadue. Tony Abbott did not stop the boats.
The data just does not support the never-ending claims by Tony Abbott and Scott Morrison that they stopped the boats. The under-resourced and uncritical media accepts the Coalition’s line. I will come to the recent data, but first the evidence … Continue reading
Malaysia, Manus, Nauru and offshore processing.
I have not always held the view that asylum seekers who come to Australia could be transferred and processed in another country. I changed my mind on that partly because of the rapid increase in boat arrivals after the Agreement … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Refugees, Immigration
Tagged Alternate-migration-pathways, boat arrivals, Malaysia, mandatory detention, Nauru-and-Manus, offshore processing, Orderly-Departure-Agreements, refugee-intake, work
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Facts on boat arrivals. John Menadue
There have been a number of claims by Scott Morrison that Operation Sovereign Borders has resulted in a significant reduction in boat arrivals. The ALP has asserted that the reduction in boat arrivals follows the trend set by the Rudd … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Refugees, Immigration
Tagged ABC-Fact-Check, boat arrivals, Scott Morrison
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Are current maritime asylum seeker policies working? Guest blogger: Peter Hughes
So what if current maritime asylum seeker policies are working? I mean that question in the narrow sense of reducing irregular maritime arrivals to a trickle. The arrival figure of some 339 persons for October 2013 announced by the government … Continue reading
Posted in Refugees, Immigration
Tagged boat arrivals, Malaysian-agreement, PNG-and-Nauru
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Boat arrivals are down. John Menadue
You would hardly know it if you read the Murdoch papers or listened to the Canberra bureau of the ABC but boat arrivals are dramatically down in recent weeks. How ironic it would be if even before Tony Abbott becomes … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Politics, Refugees, Immigration
Tagged boat arrivals, Kevin Rudd, Tony Burke
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Regional Settlement Agreement with Papua New Guinea – a post-script. John Menadue
With the dust settling a little I thought it might be safe to return to this issue! I said in my blog of July 20 that I supported the general thrust of the RSA with PNG, although a lot remained … Continue reading
The Regional Settlement Arrangement with Papua New Guinea. John Menadue
With some reservations I support the general thrust of the RSA with PNG. I do that largely for the same reasons that I supported the earlier proposed agreement with Malaysia. The RSA is in PM Rudd’s words ‘a hard line’ … Continue reading
What should Prime Minister Kevin Rudd do about boat arrivals? John Menadue
The new government has indicated that it will be reviewing current policies on such issues as carbon reduction and boat arrivals. I have written extensively about asylum seekers and refugees. I suggest that in the short term, the PM should … Continue reading
Posted in International Affairs, Refugees, Immigration
Tagged asylum seeker policy., boat arrivals, Kevin Rudd
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