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The search for the least-bad asylum-seeker policy

The search for the least-bad asylum-seeker policy "On the weekend perhaps 200 asylum seekers bound for Australia perished off the coast of Java. No one can any longer pretend that a regime of spontaneous asylum seeker boat arrivals ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-12-21 14:03 - 0 comments

The Search for the Least Bad Asylum Seeker Policy

On the weekend perhaps two hundred asylum seekers bound for Australia perished off the coast of Java. One key question about Australia’s asylum seeker problem was finally resolved. No one can any longer pretend that a regime of spontaneous asylum seeker boat arrivals and onshore processing does not carry with it grave ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2011-12-21 10:14 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

160 asylum seekers feared dead

160 asylum seekers feared dead "More  than 160 asylum seekers are feared dead after their boat sank off Java on Saturday, victims ... (Asylum Seekers, Sydney Morning Herald) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-12-19 14:20 - 0 comments

The Long Goodbye: Explaining Gillard’s Collapse

error was Rudd’s 2008 asylum seeker policy. Rudd might have retained the shell of the Pacific Solution – the threat of offshore processing for asylum seekers who arrived by boat – and humanised the policy ... By 2010, then, because of the trouble facing its asylum seeker policy and its insulation stimulus program, ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2012-03-29 11:33 - 40 comments - 0 attachments

Global Shifts: A Broader Perspective on Refugees. Antonio Guterres

Lowy Institute 5957345 The issue of refugees and asylum-seekers provokes heated public debate in countries around the world, not just in Australia. In this Lowy Institute's ...

SlowTV - admin - 2012-02-22 10:42 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Payback: The Bullying Tactics of the Murdoch Press

quite differently from the earlier one. I supervised an outstanding thesis on asylum seeker policy at La ... applied for an ARC Grant for the study of asylum seeker/refugee repatriation. In the application ... and Pakistan to investigate the fate of those asylum seekers who had been repatriated by the Commonwealth ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2012-03-07 15:28 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Turn the Boats Back and People Will Die – Abbott knows this

Turn the Boats Back and People Will Die – Abbott knows this “Asylum seekers shouldn’t do this but they do. It’s a fact of history. Desperate ... (Asylum Seekers, Boat people, Tony Abbott, Sydney Morning Herald) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-01-24 13:59 - 0 comments

The Asylum Seeker Crisis: Where To Now?

La Trobe University 5641465 The High Court has decided that the Gillard Government's 'Malaysia ...

SlowTV - admin - 2011-10-20 09:18 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Asylum Seeker Policy: From stalemate to hope?

Since 1976 some 25,000 asylum seekers have arrived on Australia’s shores. Despite these modest ... in that period has the situation of asylum seeker politics been stranger than it is at the present time. The current policy of the Gillard government is to expel the first 800 asylum seekers who have arrived or will ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2011-10-06 16:50 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

How To Stop the Boats. Khalid Koser

European experiences of reducing flows of asylum seekers and irregular migrants. Presented by the Lowy ...

SlowTV - admin - 2011-12-21 13:44 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

High court sinks Malaysia asylum-seeker swap deal

High court sinks Malaysia asylum-seeker swap deal "The decision effectively stymies the government's so-called Malaysia solution." ... (Asylum Seekers, Malaysia, Sydney Morning Herald) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-08-31 15:08 - 0 comments

Gillard wanted to be judged on asylum seekers

Gillard wanted to be judged on asylum seekers "It was Julia Gillard who rushed out the announcement of a 'Malaysia Solution' even before ... (Asylum Seekers, Australian Politics, Julia Gillard, Crikey) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-09-01 15:24 - 0 comments

So Who the Bloody Hell Are You?

tried to make political hay when relatives of asylum seekers killed in the boat tragedy off Christmas ... a vessel carrying 250 asylum seekers sank off the coast of Java in December, adding glibly that Labor had ... Critics would say that is self-evident from his heartless response to asylum seekers. “I wonder how you ...

The Monthly - Nick Bryant - 2012-02-07 15:51 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

The Second Rudd Government?

scheme. It is true that his attempt to create a humanly generous asylum seeker policy came unstuck. ... for asylum seeker policy support. This was always entirely foolish, much more than Rudd’s gamble on Turnbull for the safe passage of the emissions trading scheme. Abbott has always intended to use the asylum seeker issue ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2012-01-23 05:06 - 13 comments - 0 attachments

Divided We Fall

Milne. Whether it’s asylum seekers, gay marriage, uranium to India or more US troops in Australia, ...

The Monthly - Sally Neighbour - 2012-03-01 10:55 - 7 comments - 0 attachments

Comment: Hazara Asylum Seekers

over asylum seekers, none is more pressing than the fate of the Afghans, who outnumber all other ... or so asylum seekers who have washed up on Australia’s shores (according to figures from the Department ... from a foundering fishing boat. In October asylum seekers on another sinking boat had been wrongly ...

The Monthly - Sally Neighbour - 2011-09-05 12:57 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

Very Similar Buzzers: Clarke and Dawe

And finally (Asylum Seekers, Australian Politics, Youtube) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-09-23 15:27 - 0 comments

The Australian solution

(Asylum Seekers, Sydney Morning Herald) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-10-14 14:33 - 0 comments

How can we tell if the Malaysian deal works?

"The dirty secret of the asylum seeker debate is that something IS stopping the boats, but it's most likely the shift in asylum seeker sources away from the Asian region toward Europe." ... (Asylum Seekers, Australian Politics, Bernard Keane, Malaysia Solution, Crikey) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-08-03 14:40 - 0 comments

Asylum seekers and Australian democracy: Manne, Lake, Burnside, Megalogenis

leading thinkers on the subject to explore the asylum seeker issue (and don't always agree): ... Security, La Trobe University), the panel consists of: Julian Burnside QC, Barrister and asylum seeker ...

SlowTV - admin - 1970-01-01 10:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Asylum seekers and Australian democracy: Manne, Burnside, Lake, Megalogenis (p2)

event, four of the nation's leading thinkers on the subject to explore the asylum seeker issue (and ... and asylum seeker advocate; Marilyn Lake, Professor of History, La Trobe University; George Megalogenis, ...

SlowTV - admin - 1970-01-01 10:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Does the Australian Parliamentary Left have a Future?

these cultural issues, to which Howard added the military repulsion of asylum seekers in 2001, a significant part ... constituencies, on the one hand by repealing WorkChoices and on the other by liberalising asylum seeker policy ... offshore processing of asylum seekers, with which it basically agrees – Labor for some time will rely ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2011-11-23 10:28 - 7 comments - 0 attachments

Robert Manne on asylum seekers and the Left's failure

thrown up by a decade of asylum-seeker politics in Australia. He tells interviewer Nick Feik that, ... 'friends of asylum-seekers' groups was wrong and always likely to be politically problematic. ...

SlowTV - admin - 2011-09-05 17:20 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Rampant untruths kill asylum debate

(Asylum Seekers, Pacific Solution, Peter van Onselen, The Australian) ... Rampant untruths kill asylum debate "Refugee advocates try to claim the moral high ground but the deadly realities of the dangers ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-07-19 13:21 - 0 comments

All About Cory

integrity”, to quote his website, there’s also a pitiless quality to Bernardi. He calls asylum-seekers ...

The Monthly - Sally Neighbour - 2011-12-01 10:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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