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Tag Archives: Orderly-Departure-Agreements
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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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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A place of refuge: responses to international population movements. Arja Keski-Nummi
For over 60 years Australia has played a vital role in the development and strengthening of a system of international protection for refugees. It was one of the earliest signatories to the 1951 Refugee Convention. It has been an active … Continue reading
Posted in Human Rights, Refugees, Immigration
Tagged Alternate-migration-pathways, Orderly-Departure-Agreements, second-track-dialogue
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Tony Abbott in Sri Lanka. John Menadue
Tony Abbott has continued his ‘stop the boats campaign” in Sri Lanka regardless of growing concerns about human rights abuses in that country. He offered two patrol boats as part of a ‘foreign aid package’. His justification for this is … Continue reading
Posted in Human Rights, International Affairs, Politics, Refugees, Immigration
Tagged ASIO-assessments, CHOGM boycott, Orderly-Departure-Agreements, Tamil-persecution, Tony-Abbott-in-Sri-Lanka
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