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MEDIA ALERT: NZ Govt cover-up in refugee bashings
Monday, 12 July 2004, 1:57 pm | Project SafeCom
Below are some summary points of the shocking Zaoui Affair, still unfolding in New Zealand. More >>
Vanstone's detention releases are electioneering
Tuesday, 6 July 2004, 9:01 am | Project SafeCom
The recent releases of families from immigration detention facilities are all about publicity prior to the upcoming election, and have no relation whatsoever to ending the intensely cruel government policies, Project SafeCom's Jack Smit argues today." More >>
A Thank You - And Good News From Nauru
Wednesday, 19 May 2004, 2:40 pm | Project SafeCom
A little under a year ago I visited Nauru for the first time with Senator Andrew Bartlett. During our time there we met hundreds of individuals and their families. For reasons beyond understanding some people do remain more memorable than others ... More >>
Flotillas Of Hope May Sail Into Troubled Waters
Thursday, 13 May 2004, 2:52 pm | Project SafeCom
The mercy voyage to Nauru by a number of boats, crewed by human rights advocates under the project name of 'Flotillas of Hope' plans to sail to the island to bring teddy bears and presents to the children as well as messages of solidarity, and intends ... More >>
$23,000 per day, medical services not included
Thursday, 6 May 2004, 2:01 pm | Project SafeCom
"Medical care in detention centres is still substandard, and is not at all confined to a period in the past past, when more boatpeople than ever before came to Australia, as former Immigration Minister Ruddock alleged on ABC's AM program this morning." More >>
Man undertakes nine-day walk for child detainees
Tuesday, 4 May 2004, 11:25 am | Project SafeCom
An Adelaide man has yesterday started on a nine-day walk to highlight the plight of child detainees, especially those in the Baxter detention centre and housing compound. More >>
Afghani Refugee Chief Releases Damning Report
Friday, 23 April 2004, 1:28 pm | Project SafeCom
Hazara Ethnic Society President and appointed representative of Nauru and Indonesian asylum seekers Hassan Ghulam has just released a comprehensive report of his visits to Geneva UNHCR and the various locations in Indonesia where many Afghani and Hazara ... More >>
Kirribilli refugee protest, police overkill
Tuesday, 13 April 2004, 9:13 am | Project SafeCom
The number of protesters who plan to surround Kirribilli House this afternoon steadily builds, as more than 100 Tactical Response Group officers, two Water Police vessels, reportedly supported by a temporary central police post complete with five marquees ... More >>
Increased quota does not undo systemic child abuse
Wednesday, 24 March 2004, 3:16 pm | Project SafeCom
"Yesterday's announcement by Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone that Australia will increase refugee quota is merely a gesture to appease UNHCR Chief Ruud Lubbers who visits the minister this week, and it does not absolve Australia from its ongoing ... More >>
Refugee advocates lobby UNHCR Chief
Tuesday, 23 March 2004, 1:45 pm | Project SafeCom
Thousands of refugee advocates around Australia have been alerted by email to this week's visit of UNHCR Chief Ruud Lubbers to Australia, with a singular intent to approach him by letter, email or by fax, in order to attract his attention to the ... More >>
Harmony Week a farce for refugees
Friday, 19 March 2004, 4:32 pm | Project SafeCom
Harmony Week, the extended West Australian version of the federally celebrated "Living in Harmony Day" is a sanitised self-promotion stint constructed by premier Geoff Gallup, says West Australian refugee group Project SafeCom, and it adds that in WA ... More >>
Did the US unload WMD's in Iraq last week?
Friday, 19 March 2004, 10:00 am | Project SafeCom
The article below in the Tehran Times (13 March) leaves me wondering whether any of the Australian media organisations has 1) spotted it, 2) reported this and/or 3) conducted further investigations into this matter. Tehran Times claims that shipments ... More >>
Baxter Critical Incident - Update
Thursday, 18 March 2004, 2:20 pm | Project SafeCom
A detainee with a history of mental and physical illness was afraid to leave the compound because of being locked up. This morning approximately 30 guards arrived to take him, ostensibly to go to medical but he fears they'll take him to management. More >>
Baxter detainees take control of compound
Thursday, 18 March 2004, 1:33 pm | Project SafeCom
Reports have just come to hand that detainees in the WHITE TWO compound at the Baxter have taken control of the compound after fighting and arguments with detention managers Group 4 broke out overnight. More >>
Detainee "Commemorates" 2000 Days In Detention
Friday, 5 March 2004, 10:49 am | Project SafeCom
Please note that the detainee Peter Muhammad Qasim, a Kashmiri refugee, has this week "commemorated" his 2000th day in detention in an Australian detention centre. Below is also the speech at the second reading of the Migration Amendment (Duration ... More >>
Howard accused of crimes over detention policies
Monday, 23 February 2004, 10:25 am | Project SafeCom
Three times within one week prominent human rights activist, barrister and Queens Council Julian Burnside has accused Australia's Prime Minister John Howard, former immigration minister Phillip Ruddock and current immigration minister Amanda Vanstone ... More >>
17 Perth detainees start hunger strike
Friday, 20 February 2004, 1:11 pm | Project SafeCom
Seventeen detainees at the Perth Detention centre called a hungerstrike yesterday evening after the detention centre operator, Group 4, announced that all jobs reserved for detainees were to be cancelled, thus depriving them of many opportunities to ... More >>
Refugee Advocates launch 2004 Election Strategy
Monday, 26 January 2004, 10:04 am | Project SafeCom
In close collaboration across Australia, refugee advocates will launch on Australia Day the first phase of their election challenge to the Australian government and opposition parties in preparation for the 2004 Federal Election - under the motto: ... More >>
Mandatory Latham Represents A Minority In Oz
Friday, 23 January 2004, 9:45 am | Project SafeCom
Australia's Labor leader Mark Latham may believe in mandatory detention, but according to a Poll conducted by the Sydney Morning Herald 61% of Australians don't agree with him. More >>
Ticking Time Bomb For Iranians In Detention
Tuesday, 20 January 2004, 11:41 am | Project SafeCom
Please note that in the next few weeks, injunctions lodged in various courts for many Iranians held in the BAXTER and PORT HEDLAND detention centres are due to expire. More >>
