Let’s put Asylum seekers rescued from leaky boat (Channel Nine News) into perspective.
This, and many other news outlets, are reporting that about 50 asylum seekers have been picked up by an Australian navy boat off the northwest coast, the 11th vessel to be intercepted this year.
And, of course, (yawn) Malcolm Turnbull is saying the same [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Muslim’
May 6, 2009
Leaky boats, freezing vegetables: we won’t keep them away
March 20, 2009
Web of lies against Rudd and Muslims
Another of the fake and poisonous emails is doing the rounds.
Funny how they have such a long life – this one originated in 2005. Luckily, as much as the web makes circulating lies easy, it also makes finding them out easy too.
Thanks to Snopes for this expose.
Muslims Out of Australia!
Claim: Article compiles statements from [...]
February 3, 2009
Immigrant facts and furphies
“racial tension threatens a real prospect of conflict as the recession bites. I’m not ignoring this issue – I don’t think we can – but I’m just not sure how to blog about it responsibly without inflaming a growing popular anger.” Responsible blogging on immigration – hard to do?
The Raedwald post coincided with a couple [...]
February 1, 2009
Fun with terrorism
It’s Sunday, so it must be Fun-day. But it’s not easy to find things to do with refugees, asylum seekers and other marginalised migrants that are fun.
I wonder why?
The UNHCR has developed a game based on the refugee experience, but it is not exactly a fun experience, rather too worthy and wordy.
Perhaps they were creating [...]
January 27, 2009
End racist violence -ban Australia Day?
Since reading the reports of racially-motivated rioting that happened yesterday I am wondering if we should abolish Australia Day altogether. Mick Dodson, since Australian of the Year yesterday, has revived the debate about when we should celebrate Australia Day. ‘Australian of Year Dodson wants a new day’.
But now, The Australian, in an article titled Racist [...]
January 26, 2009
Asylum seekers, illegal immigrants and keeping the peace
About 600 migrants and refugees broke out of an overcrowded immigration facility on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa last Saturday to protest their treatment.They forced open the gates at the facility and marched toward the center of the island ….and what did they do? Rioted? Took over the town? Raped and pillaged?
They staged a peaceful [...]
January 11, 2009
Afraid of the dark?
In a post I published a few days ago, ‘Test your prejudices’, I quoted Nick Haslam (Online Opinion) who was arguing against the primacy of fear in the creation of prejudice.
When I reflect on my own prejudiced reactions (the ones that I am aware of, at least!) I reckon that fear was pretty much the [...]
