It may have slipped Labor’s notice, but this hasty move proposes a new ‘axis of evil’, denying the right to seek protection based on country of origin.
This trashes Australia’s obligations as a signatory to the Refugee Convention.
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“It’s appalling,” Betia Shakiba an Iranian refugee and lawyer “and a slap in the face. This bill is a pure definition of discrimination. Aust prides itself on being a multicultural society and on being non-discriminatory, but this bill says the opposite.”
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Labor’s deportation bill will only create an endless roundabout between immigration detention and prison. Read our op-ed by Sanmati AK and Laura John in Guardian Australia 👇🏽 theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The consequences of the government’s new migration legislation could be dire – for individuals and for Australia, by Jane McAdam Daniel Ghezelbash Tristan Harley Madeline Gleeson theconversation.com/the-consequenc… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

Salma and her daughter are on the brink of homelessness, because a tourist visa is the only way in for Palestinians seeking refuge in Australia from Israel's bombardment. Guardian Australia ASRC Human Rights Law Centre
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Entire countries could be blacklisted from obtaining visas to Australia under proposed legislation that has been described by migrant groups as “appalling” and by the Greens as a “Trump-style travel ban”.
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Labor’s deportation bill could be used to blacklist entire countries’ citizens from obtaining visas to Australia theguardian.com/australia-news…

The broader question, the appropriateness of sending someone to a place where they cannot receive adequate care – and of leaving them there when their health collapses – is outside the scope of this inquest. This is the yawning silence left unanswered.
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The letters, in the last months of Faysal Ishak Ahmed’s life, became frantic...
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Manus Island death leaves unanswered questions on offshore detention theguardian.com/australia-news…

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'...sought sanctuary in the first refugee convention country reached...Aus was legally obliged to protect...
...those remaining are the responsibility of the PNG government is not supported by intern'l law'
🙏Ben Doherty
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“I still hope for a bright future, I still hope to go to a country where I can be free, I still hope for a good life for my family.”

After a decade, Nurul Chawdury still has hope. As he reasons, it’s all he can hold on to. theguardian.com/australia-news…

The refugees left in PNG after a decade in offshore detention theguardian.com/australia-news…

It has been such an honour to build the Kaldor Centre over the past decade, and I know Daniel Ghezelbash will take it from strength to strength! I am excited to create the Evacuations Research Hub UNSW Kaldor Centre and to mentor a new team of early-career researchers.

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There are few places in the world where survivors of crimes against humanity and genocide live in the same street as the murderers of their families. Rwanda is one such place. By Ben Doherty theguardian.com/australia-news…

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Big media focus today on Rwandan genocide suspects living in Australia after ABC News Four Corners film by Ben Doherty Amos Roberts Dunja Karagic. Includes analysis of gacaca evidence in international trials with commentary by Nicola Palmer and me. abc.net.au/news/2024-02-2…