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Block Lynton Crosby's visa for New Zealand
Tuesday, 19 April 2005, 4:02 pm | Project SafeCom
"John Howard's former advisor Lynton Crosby, who currently acts as the campaign director for the British Tories, and who was the campaign director during the 2001 Tampa election and beyond, should be barred from entering New Zealand on character ... More >>
Banned Drug Vioxx Used In Oz Detention Centres
Tuesday, 12 April 2005, 4:39 pm | Project SafeCom
"After revelations in the Australian media earlier this week on ABC's Background Briefing and ABC's Four Corners, followed by this morning's revelations by refugee advocates that the banned and damaging Merck Drug Vioxx (rofecoxib) - withdrawn September ... More >>
Baxter case will test mandatory detention policy
Tuesday, 5 April 2005, 11:20 am | Project SafeCom
"The question whether the Baxter detention centre, and living in Baxter 'indefinitely' makes you mad, is highlighted in more than one way today, both in the Australian courts and on television through the ABC's Four Corners current affairs program tonight," ... More >>
"Baxter madness" case to test detention policy
Tuesday, 5 April 2005, 10:27 am | Project SafeCom
"The question whether the Baxter detention centre, and living in Baxter 'indefinitely' makes you mad, is highlighted in more than one way today, both in the Australian courts and on television through the ABC's Four Corners current affairs program tonight," ... More >>
Baxter Court Case Tests Mandatory Detention Policy
Monday, 4 April 2005, 12:20 am | Project SafeCom
"The question whether the Baxter detention centre, and living in Baxter 'indefinitely' makes you mad, is highlighted in more than one way today, both in the Australian courts and on television through the ABC's Four Corners current affairs program tonight," ... More >>
Security Checks On 14 Month Old Baby Take 8 Weeks
Tuesday, 29 March 2005, 5:17 pm | Project SafeCom
"In an ongoing and sickening game of departmental spin and what looks like brinkmanship with refugee advocates, Amnesty International Australia and other organisations, the Immigration Minister Senator Amanda Vanstone has maintained that a Vietnamese ... More >>
Baxter 05 Convergence - "Operation Counterspin"
Tuesday, 29 March 2005, 9:27 am | Project SafeCom
Press Conference: 10am - Tuesday 29th March Parliament House Gardens Perth, Western Australia Five arrested WA activists declare their fence cutting protest at Baxter IDF 'Morally Right' More >>
Court costs manipulate "fair go" principle
Tuesday, 29 March 2005, 9:24 am | Project SafeCom
If the Attorney-General Phillip Ruddock is so keen to try and point to spurious claims brought before Australian Courts and falsely blame refugee advocates, then he needs to precede this by de-registering the one or two shonky migration lawyers we have ... More >>
Overkill police force arrests five Perth protester
Monday, 28 March 2005, 2:09 pm | Project SafeCom
Five more protesters at the Baxter detention centre, all of them from Perth, have been arrested this morning by SA State and Federal police, during a protest that has been increasingly marked by brutality and overkill from the police. More >>
Baxter Police behaviour & "media spin" scandalous
Monday, 28 March 2005, 2:09 pm | Project SafeCom
"Behaviour of the South Australian State Police towards the very, very clearly non-violent Baxter protesters, and the blatant attempts at media spin by the SA Police Media liaison unit amount to a scandal, and an indication that police is involved ... More >>
Overkill police force arrests five Perth protester
Monday, 28 March 2005, 2:09 pm | Project SafeCom
Five more protesters at the Baxter detention centre, all of them from Perth, have been arrested this morning by SA State and Federal police, during a protest that has been increasingly marked by brutality and overkill from the police. More >>
Baxter Convergers Label Vanstone "Unfair"
Thursday, 24 March 2005, 9:22 am | Project SafeCom
On Wednesday 23rd March a contingent of nearly 100 people will set off from Perth on a journey of thousands of kilometres to the national Easter convergence at Baxter Detention Centre in South Australia to protest at the mandatory detention of asylum ... More >>
Australia: "Gestapo Section" powers should be cut
Thursday, 17 March 2005, 8:32 am | Project SafeCom
WA refugee lobby group Project SafeCom today expressed outrage over the sheer unlimited powers under which the Department of Immigration's 'Compliance Section' barges in and conducts raids on private property and acts as "baby-snatchers", destroying ... More >>
Who Will Think Of Darwin Child Boat-Prisoners?
Wednesday, 16 March 2005, 3:40 pm | Project SafeCom
"Tonight a cyclone of enormous ferocity is likely to hit Darwin, while three unaccompanied children are imprisoned on confiscated boats, let's just say 'hopefully' detained together with some adults, detained for breaching the fishing zone regulations." More >>
Darwin harbour child boat-prisoners in danger
Monday, 14 March 2005, 8:35 am | Project SafeCom
"Tonight a cyclone of enormous ferocity is likely to hit Darwin, while three unaccompanied children are imprisoned on confiscated boats, let's just say 'hopefully' detained together with some adults, detained for breaching the fishing zone regulations." ... More >>
Australia: Vanstone should do work experience
Tuesday, 1 March 2005, 8:28 pm | Project SafeCom
"Immigration Minister Senator Amanda Vanstone should do a work experience stint with refugee support and advocacy groups so she can learn some things about her role and duty", WA based refugee advocacy group Project SafeCom commented today when ... More >>
Reforms to Australian Immigration a Whitewash
Monday, 28 February 2005, 5:31 pm | Project SafeCom
"Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone's announcement of this morning that she has determined a 28-day limit for' detention of people suspected of being 'illegal immigrants' doesn't undo the sheer unlimited powers granted to her Departmental officers", ... More >>
DIMIA lies already, before Whitewash Rau Inquiry
Thursday, 10 February 2005, 10:22 am | Project SafeCom
"Refugee advocacy group Project SafeCom claims that there is no doubt that the planned Cornelia Rau inquiry will be a whitewash, and that even before this Inquiry is due to start, a spokesman for the Department of Immigration is already on the ... More >>
Baxter detainees statement on Rau Inquiry
Thursday, 10 February 2005, 10:19 am | Project SafeCom
"Refugee advocacy groups have received a statement from detainees in the Baxter detention centre (reprinted below) relating to the announced inquiry into the unlawful detention of Cornelia Rau, and from the statement it becomes clear they seek extended ... More >>
Vanstone's Rau Inquiry should be overridden
Wednesday, 9 February 2005, 10:41 am | Project SafeCom
"WA Refugee lobby group Project SafeCom today called the "closed doors" Rau Inquiry as announced by Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone an absolute disgrace in the context of Ms Rau's family's demand that such an inquiry should be open to ... More >>
