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Scott Parkin "security threat": protesters at risk
Wednesday, 14 September 2005, 9:14 pm | Project SafeCom
'Lame Duck' Opposition leader in Scott Parkin "security threat" places all Unionist protesters at risk More >>
4 suicide attempts in Aust. detention centres
Wednesday, 7 September 2005, 9:23 pm | Project SafeCom
"The appalling misery of refugees in Australia's detention centres continues unabated with as many as four suicide attempts in detention centres in as many days," WA Human rights lobby group Project SafeCom said today. More >>
Howard plays dangerous anti-Muslim control game
Friday, 26 August 2005, 11:16 am | Project SafeCom
"The Prime Minister John Howard, the treasurer Mr Peter Costello and the Education Minister Brendan Nelson have started playing an extremely dangerous game with the intent to control 'suspected' and public Muslim 'extremists' amongst Islam adherents ... More >>
Oz & Kenya play 'refugee ping-pong' with deportee
Thursday, 14 July 2005, 10:47 am | Project SafeCom
"In another case of what appears an example of serious mismanagement by the Department of Immigration (DIMIA), Australian authorities deported an asylum seeker to Kenya during February last year, but on arrival the man was promptly send back to Australia ... More >>
"Baxter's dirty dozen" remain forgotten
Wednesday, 6 July 2005, 10:47 am | Project SafeCom
"At least twelve men - but maybe as many as twenty asylum claimants - all of them locked up in the Baxter refugee jail for at least four or five years, have been "forgotten" and are left behind in Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone's "Visa lottery" of the ... More >>
Amnesty, SafeCom to 'unlawfully detain' Aussies
Thursday, 16 June 2005, 10:35 am | Project SafeCom
Amnesty International Australia's WA Branch and refugee lobby group Project SafeCom will join forces for World Refugee Day events this Saturday in Fremantle, Western Australia, where they will lock up Australians and passers-by 'on request' in what ... More >>
Oz MP to table detainee petitions in Parl't
Thursday, 16 June 2005, 10:32 am | Project SafeCom
Senior ALP backbencher and Member for Fremantle, Dr Carmen Lawrence, will table the first of the expected many bundles of petitions demanding a Royal Commission into the treatment of refugees, asylum seekers and other immigration detainees tomorrow ... More >>
Urgent need for Australian Falun Gong asylum
Monday, 13 June 2005, 9:56 am | Project SafeCom
"With the defection of a second Chinese Official as reported by The Epoch Times, Mr. Hao Fengjun, Australian Prime Minister John Howard should come out of his hiding place behind his "Free Trade Barrier" and show that human rights account for more ... More >>
Urgent Need For Australian Falun Gong Asylum
Wednesday, 8 June 2005, 10:54 am | Project SafeCom
"With the defection of a second Chinese Official as reported by The Epoch Times, Mr. Hao Fengjun, Australian Prime Minister John Howard should come out of his hiding place behind his "Free Trade Barrier" and show that human rights account for more ... More >>
Yonglin's claims make a Moritorium on Deportations
Tuesday, 7 June 2005, 2:02 pm | Project SafeCom
The ACT Refugee Action Committee and WA advocacy group Project SafeCom today call for a moratorium on deportation without fair and independent hearing of evidence. More >>
Another DIMIA bungle results in unlawful detention
Tuesday, 7 June 2005, 11:11 am | Project SafeCom
"Another case of serious identity mismanagement by the Department of Immigration (DIMIA), a stubborn refusal to consult with Migration Agents and consulates to learn the true state of affairs about the identity of the couple, resulting in a family ... More >>
Howard Should Take Briefing Over Who Is "Illegal"
Friday, 27 May 2005, 12:40 am | Project SafeCom
"The Australian prime Minister should get himself briefed over the right to enter Australia with the expressed intent to seek asylum, either 'unannounced', by aircraft, or by boat," WA Refugee group Project SafeCom said this morning in response to statements ... More >>
Grave fears for forcible DIMIA deportation
Monday, 9 May 2005, 4:34 pm | Project SafeCom
Grave fears are emerging over what looks in all respects like a "forced" deportation from the Baxter detention centre this morning of an AHWAZ Arab Iranian man. More >>
Family Of Refugees Arrested, Injured In Iran
Monday, 9 May 2005, 3:39 pm | Project SafeCom
"Amnesty International has revealed that several immediate family members of Iranian refugees who have been held in Baxter for years, are amongst those arrested and injured during ethnic clashes in the southern province of Khuzestan," WA Refugee group Project ... More >>
Refugee Treatment & Vietnam War Commemorations
Monday, 2 May 2005, 2:02 pm | Project SafeCom
"This week's events around the 30-year Vietnam war commemorations should include reflections on Australia's role in refugee resettlement at that time, and an acute awareness amongst all Australians about how we treat Vietnamese refugees on Christmas ... More >>
Curtail DIMIA powers after deportations
Monday, 2 May 2005, 2:01 pm | Project SafeCom
"The admission by Acting Immigration Minister Peter McGauran that Australian citizens and residents have been snatched and grabbed and deported away from Australia confirms serious concerns refugee advocates have held and tried to make public for ... More >>
Include detention deaths in Cornelia Rau Inquiry
Monday, 2 May 2005, 2:00 pm | Project SafeCom
"After media reports that yet another person has died in immigration detention, this time in Darwin harbour - while this is not the first time someone dies whist being detained on a cramped rickety fishing boat in the Darwin harbour - resulting ... More >>
Immigration Dept. deports using false travel docs.
Monday, 2 May 2005, 1:59 pm | Project SafeCom
"Refugee advocates Project SafeCom cannot conclude otherwise than that the Australian Department of Immigration has used falsified documents to force a deportation," spokesman Jack H Smit said this morning. More >>
Not just "a few" but 33 unlawfully detained
Monday, 2 May 2005, 1:58 pm | Project SafeCom
"The revelations by Acting Immigration Minister Peter McGauran this weekend that there were other people "unlawfully detained" does not just refer to one or "a few" cases, but to as many as thirty-three individuals "unlawfully detained" by the Australian ... More >>
Howard's "solution" should cause a revolution
Tuesday, 26 April 2005, 2:42 pm | Project SafeCom
"The Australian Prime Minister's 'final solution' of sending all boatpeople, whether inside or outside the migration zone, to the to be completed Christmas Island detention centre should cause one mighty revolution in Federal Parliament as has rarely been ... More >>
