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Indefinite detention for mother of three judged a security risk
Daniel Flitton and Michael Gordon (source 
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The two boys gave away all their toys on Wednesday night. Other children in detention could play with them, they figured. They, along with their mother, Ranjini, and baby brother would soon be free. Refugee situation ‘parlous’ – Human Rights Commissioner Prof. Gillian Triggs speaks on the ‘grave dilemma’ with thousands of asylum seekers ‘banking up in Australia’ and the parlous situation created by the … Continue reading
Don’t Let The Sea Take Any More
Trevor Grant (source )
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Australia has always been committed to the law of the sea, but it’s high time we applied it evenly. No asylum seeker deserves to drown and be lost forever, writes Trevor Grant Asylum seekers float during the 2010 incident. It was 16 years ago but the memory of the Australian navy and air force charging to the rescue of lost sailors in a yacht race … Continue reading
Posted in Asylum seekers, Australasia, Global issues, Human rights, Humanity, Opinion, Refugees, Society
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These kids deserve a childhood
Gabrielle Brophy (source )
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I have just returned from Cambodia, a country of gentle and sincere people spread across a beautiful landscape. But behind the beauty, Cambodia is one of the poorest countries in Southeast Asia, with one third of the population living on less than $2 per day. Rag picking children colouring with peer educator Devi at the World Vision Cambodia night outreach program. Photo credit: Ben Knop … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Australasia, Child labor, General, Global issues, Human rights, Humanity, Opinion, Poverty, Society, Young generation
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Outsourcing our dirty work: the truth about Nauru
Daniel Webb (source )
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Australia wants it both ways: using Nauru to solve a domestic problem with asylum seekers but invoking the island’s sovereignty to deflect responsibility when things go wrong. Daniel Webb wonders if a court case underway in Nauru will force changes to Australia’s regional processing policy. comment The Nauruan Supreme Court is currently considering a case brought by a group of asylum seekers challenging the lawfulness … Continue reading
Posted in Asylum seekers, Australasia, Global issues, Human rights, Humanity, Opinion, Politics, Refugees
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Doubts about convictions of Egyptian asylum seeker at heart of political storm
Oliver Laughland in Sydney, Louisa Loveluck in Cairo, Seumas Milne in London (source )
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Court documents and lawyers suggest man whom Tony Abbott called a ‘jihadist terrorist’ was not convicted of murder. Sayed Abdellatif. Photograph: IRINnews Serious doubts have arisen over claims that an asylum seeker at the centre of a political furore over immigration security was convicted of murder and the possession of explosives, Guardian Australia has learned. Sayed Abdellatif, an Egyptian asylum seeker who arrived in Australia … Continue reading
Christine Milne: 20 people, 20 questions
Katharine Murphy (source )
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The leader of the Australian Greens answers 20 questions on a range of subjects including policy, environment and culture. Chrstine Milne answers questions for the Guardian on (clockwise from top) Carry On films, water skiing, classical music and the Galapagos Islands. Photograph: Rex features/Don Mcphee/Murdo Macleod/Corbis/Other 1. Peter Doherty, Nobel laureate, immunologist What will you do to stop the concreting-over of productive agricultural land? Christine … Continue reading
Getting into bed with AIDS
Emmeline Tyler (source )
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“Who wants to get into bed with the Victorian AIDS Council? BalletLab does.” – Phillip Adams. Phillip Adams BalletLab is partnering with the Victorian AIDS Council/Gay Men’s Health Centre to create Kingdom, a multi-layered visual and dance performance project that they intend to present at the 2014 International AIDS Conference in Melbourne. Right Now spoke with Phillip Adams, artistic director of BalletLab, a contemporary dance … Continue reading
Posted in Artist, Arts & Culture, Australasia, Global issues, Health, Human rights, Society
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Same-sex marriage and the ‘motherless generation’
David van Gend (source )
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Atheist philosopher Bertrand Russell said, “It is through children alone that sexual relations become of importance to society and worthy to be taken cognisance of by a legal institution.” The legal institution of marriage is, as anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss puts it, “a social institution with a biological foundation”. Our marriage laws and customs exist to reinforce this biological foundation, helping bind a feral-by-nature male to … Continue reading
The good news in Turkey
Daniel Pipes (source )
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The country has been heading in the wrong direction under Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The latest protests may help revive its secular and democratic heritage. Anti-government protesters bang on kitchen utensils during a demonstration in central Ankara. Clashes re-erupted in Turkish cities as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan shrugged off mass protests against his Islamic-rooted government. (Adem Altan / AFP / Getty Images / … Continue reading
Posted in Diplomacy, General, Global issues, Human rights, Law & Order, Leadership, Middle East, Opinion, Oppression, Politics, Protest, Religion, Security, Society
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