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ONE HUNDRED BOATS: What happened to them, Scott Morrison?

Saturday, 29 November 2014, 11:54 am | Project SafeCom

"The fact that the UNHCR Representative in Indonesia, Mr Thomas Vargas, has claimed that at least ONE HUNDRED BOATS have departed for Australia calls for immediate demands on Immigration Scott Morrison and the Chief of the Immigration and Border ... More >>

Scott Morrison should stop wrecking Immigration Department

Monday, 18 November 2013, 4:27 pm | Project SafeCom

"Immigration Minister Scott 'it's not Friday' Morrison deserves to be publicly and mercilessly flogged in the public town square over his fanaticism and 'secret instructions' to the Immigration Department - and with that public flogging we mean the merciless ... More >>

Kevin Alert: pls fix foul policies & asylum discourse

Thursday, 27 June 2013, 4:17 pm | Project SafeCom

the kind of attention only an internationalist who has a record of unflinching inclusivity of the United Nations like Prime Minister Kevin Rudd can offer the country," WA Human Rights group Project SafeCom said today. More >>

Australia: Media Keep Missing the Real Smuggling Boat Issues

Tuesday, 25 June 2013, 3:29 pm | Project SafeCom

Just Like Canberra's Elites, Australia's Media Keep Missing the Real Smuggling Boat Issues More >>

Every Departing Aircraft to Nauru Or Manus Island Shames Us

Thursday, 2 May 2013, 1:42 pm | Project SafeCom

"Australia's hideous bipartisan offshore dumping of asylum seekers has once again been exposed by Four Corners, and if there is anything constructive to be said following the program, then it surely must start by pointing the finger at the moral ... More >>

Greens Should Block Supply of Offshore Processing Funds

Thursday, 2 May 2013, 12:46 pm | Project SafeCom

"During the 14-16 May Federal Budget Parliamentary session, the Greens should block supply of all funds associated with the government's hideous offshore asylum processing prison camps," WA Human Rights group Project SafeCom said today. More >>

Conservatives should remember Thatcher's 1979 call to Fraser

Thursday, 11 April 2013, 2:47 pm | Project SafeCom

"Conservative politicians like David Cameron, John Howard, Tony Abbott and Julie Bishop may well be gushing with praise following the death of former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, but they suffer from selective amnesia and keep many aspects deeply ... More >>

We're With The PM On The Western Suburbs Asylum Vilification

Thursday, 7 March 2013, 1:52 pm | Project SafeCom

MEDIA RELEASE: We're With The PM On The Western Suburbs Asylum Vilification Discourse Fissure More >>

'Saving lives at Sea' Fig Leaves Killing Refugees Slowly

Friday, 30 November 2012, 2:24 pm | Project SafeCom

MEDIA RELEASE: Using 'Saving lives at Sea' fig leaves, Gillard government kills refugees slowly on Nauru Web: http://www.safecom.org.au/ More >>

More protests and hunger strike on Nauru

Friday, 19 October 2012, 7:16 pm | Project SafeCom

Another 38 asylum seekers, Iranian and Afghan, arrived in Nauru this morning (Friday 19 October) taking the number of asylum seekers, in the increasingly crowded detention centre, to around 330. More >>

Expert Panel Failure: Houston, We Still Have A Problem

Monday, 13 August 2012, 3:57 pm | Project SafeCom

"The Houston Asylum Expert Panel's report [1] is largely a failure by the three 'experts', who have been unable to exit the poisonous political framework that has dominated Australia's deeply entrenched response of deterrence and punishment since ... More >>

Scott Morrison Manipulates UNHCR Information

Tuesday, 7 August 2012, 3:28 pm | Project SafeCom

"If reports by Fairfax Press Gallery Reporter Phillip Coorey, who apparently had early access to today's opposition Immigration spokesman Scott Morrison's Lowe Institute speech (see reprint below) are any indication, then Morrison will go on ... More >>

Greens Applauded For Breaking 12-Year Indonesia Secrecy

Monday, 9 July 2012, 2:26 pm | Project SafeCom

Project SafeCom Inc. P.O. Box 364 Narrogin Western Australia 6312 Web: http://www.safecom.org.au More >>

Australia's harsh anti-people-smuggling legislation

Wednesday, 4 July 2012, 2:47 pm | Project SafeCom

"It's one thing to have the harshest possible sanctions regime in place that targets people smugglers and people smuggling operations, but it's high time Australia starts addressing the unintended but lethal consequences of its criminal sanctions ... More >>

Australia: 35,000 boat-borne asylum seekers in 36 years

Thursday, 7 June 2012, 2:42 pm | Project SafeCom

"One of the passengers on the vessel that arrived yesterday from Sri Lanka at Cocos Island can be listed as the 35,000th passenger reaching the safety of our borders since 27 April 1976 seeking Australia's assessment assistance in claiming asylum ... More >>

Smuggling Circus Freak Show fails investigative framework

Tuesday, 5 June 2012, 11:27 am | Project SafeCom

"Four Corners has now well and truly established its own "me too" Canberra-derived national discourse of Evil Smugglers' stories, a media freak show that started with commercial television serials, cheapskate sensationalist so-called ... More >>

Gillard On Ali Jasmin: Wooden, Stubborn, Stupid And Dumb

Thursday, 19 April 2012, 11:27 am | Project SafeCom

"Prime Minister Julia Gillard's response to the astounding revelations on television last Monday in Hamish McDonald's report by Channel Ten's The Project cannot be interpreted as anything but roundly stupid, insensitive, laughable and inappropriate," WA ... More >>

Detention Of Chinese Boat Arrivals Is Probably Unlawful

Thursday, 12 April 2012, 11:43 am | Project SafeCom

Project SafeCom Inc. P.O. Box 364 Narrogin Western Australia 6312 Web: http://www.safecom.org.au/ More >>

Asylum Trends no Australian Reporter Could Interpret

Wednesday, 28 March 2012, 3:48 pm | Project SafeCom

"ABC Radio Current Affairs Reporters, Fairfax writers and News Ltd Reporters all jumped too keenly to assume a direct correlation between an increase in asylum levels in industrialised countries and the number of boats arriving in Australia ... More >>

Indonesian Smuggling Accused Boat Crew

Tuesday, 27 March 2012, 3:16 pm | Project SafeCom

"The ongoing scandal of locking up growing numbers of largely innocent Indonesian asylum boat crew needs a major overhaul to return it to age-old principles of dispensing due justice and common law, and this major correction should be supported by both ... More >>

 

 
 
 
 
 

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