Let’s stop talking about asylum seekers and do something – want to come to Indonesia with me?

James Hathaway is something of a hero of mine (yes, I know, I’m a nerd).
He is the sort of academic expert you refer to almost as you would holy writ – “if he says it it must be so”- for issues of refugee and international law.
He has been dean of Melbourne University Law School for [...]

Record numbers of asylum seekers in Norway, Finland, Britain and Malta: and Rudd nowhere in sight!

The Federal Opposition is blaming the changes in government policy for the increase in numbers of asylum seekers arriving in Australia this year. Asylum seekers: malicious arithmetic and game show rhetoric
2009 could indeed be a new record year for asylum seekers- in Norway, Finland, Britain and Malta!
(And probably for more nations- I ran out of [...]

Indonesia offers cash to asylum seekers

The Indonesian government is offering Afghan asylum seekers financial inducements trying to return home.
It is very likely that those ‘inducements’ are being in  turn financed by Australia Asylum seeker crowd control: Australia and Europe hire 3rd world bouncers
In a recent interview, Hariyadi Wirawan, Indonesian international relations expert, told Radio Australia that instead greater effort must [...]

Asylum seeker crowd control: Australia and Europe hire 3rd world bouncers

‘Solving immigration by outsourced bouncers’ is the great title Shada Islam gave her post on Online Opinion, about how the wealthier nations in Europe are ‘solving’ their asylum seeker ‘problems’.
This approach includes the interception of boats carrying would-be refugees and immigrants before they reach European territory, and sending them to Libya-  which has not signed [...]

National newspaper agrees: Asylum seekers not illegal

Advocacy group A Just Australia has won a complaint against the Australian about language used in four articles and an editorial on boat arrivals, published in April 2009. Press Council
A Just Australia complained to the Australian Press Council about the use of the term “illegal” or “illegals” in the reference to unauthorised arrivals.
The Council [...]

Boat blast: Asylum Seekers – The Sequel!

(It’s Sunday, and I really need a Funday this week!)
This week we have had our own horror movie:
‘Asylum seekers- the sequel’
Will they drown their children? Will they set fire to themselves and the entire continent of Australia? Watch your media and find out the answers! Bonus scenes: the living dead brought back to life to [...]

Even I can add this up – Don’t be afraid of boat people, Australia!

Numbers: A friend to all boat people
Part 1:Numbers
Number of asylum seekers who arrived last year: 4750
Number who arrived by boat: 179
Asylum seekers found at sea off Australia so far this year: 221
Percentage of asylum seekers who arrive by air: more than 95%
Thanks to Crikey Asylum seekers, the facts in figures
Part 2: Why are the [...]

Don’t let the boat people get savaged once again

Please go to the Australian polling web page today to vote on ‘Is the Rudd Labor Govt too soft on border control?’ The poll is currently running at 71% agreeing with the statement, 29 % against. I am praying that the situation will not be a repeat of the awful circumstances of 2001:
Public opinion as [...]

Ruddock, Stone sabotage their own boats

THEY are not throwing their children overboard this time. No, they are blowing up a boat with themselves and their children on it!
When they were in government the Howard mob accused asylum seekers on boats to Australia of throwing their children overboard. This was proved to be a lie.
Now the minus-Howard-mob tells us that the [...]