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Australian Santa Gets through to Asylum Boat
Monday, 28 December 2009, 10:04 am | Project SafeCom
Indonesian officials have barred access to the boat at Merak, but Australian refugee activists in Jakarta supporting the Tamil asylum seekers have successfully negotiated for boxes of Christmas gifts to be distributed to the children on the boat. More >>
Kevin Rudd: Sri Lankan refugee boat shoot-to-kill
Monday, 7 December 2009, 2:56 pm | Project SafeCom
"The aggressive treatment by Sri Lankan authorities of asylum seekers departing for the UN protection and safety of Australia, where a boarding asylum seeker was shot dead this weekend (Sri Lankan media report below), points straight back to Prime ... More >>
Kevin Rudd Should Face Senate Inquiry
Friday, 20 November 2009, 12:20 pm | Project SafeCom
"The Prime Minister should be subject to a Senate Inquiry over his handling of the various asylum boat debacles of the last month, which include reports that the Oceanic Viking was directed away from Australian waters after rescuing asylum seekers in ... More >>
Appeal to the Australian Government
Thursday, 19 November 2009, 12:16 pm | Project SafeCom
The asylum seekers on the boat at Merak have issued an appeal to the Australian government. The statement dictated to the Refugee Action Coalition from the ship is printed below. More >>
Blame Rudd: Indonesians Fire On Asylum Seekers
Monday, 16 November 2009, 2:19 pm | Project SafeCom
"The ghastly fact that Indonesian authorities have opened fire on Afghan asylum seekers who were on their way to seek protection in Australia - their unabrogated right under international law - points squarely at Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and his equally ... More >>
SafeCom: Taylor's Report is a Grave Indictment
Tuesday, 3 November 2009, 1:54 pm | Project SafeCom
"The Report of a visit to eleven places of detention in Indonesia, just released by lawyer and advocate Jessie Taylor - even in the context that some claims have been expressed by several other advocates since 2003 - stands as a clear and grave ... More >>
Failure of Howard & Rudd's Indonesian warehousing
Sunday, 1 November 2009, 5:42 pm | Project SafeCom
"The message from the 78 Sri Lankans on board the Oceanic Viking, in which they declare themselves to be registered UNHCR refugees who have been part of the thousands of others stuck for years in Indonesia, shows up the failure of John Howard's "push-back" ... More >>
Australia's Violence, Indonesia's Decency On Show?
Thursday, 29 October 2009, 1:44 pm | Project SafeCom
"The decency shown by Indonesia's Foreign Minster Marty Natalegawa, who declared yesterday on ABC Lateline that his country refuses to be in breach of International law by applying force or violence to remove the 78 Sri Lankans from the Oceanic Viking, ... More >>
Fly The 260 Sri Lankans To Australia
Saturday, 17 October 2009, 11:48 am | Project SafeCom
Mr Smit is undertaking post-graduate studies at Edith Cowan University into the nature of the "people smuggling industry" and into the legislation that "criminalises the facilitated entry of unannounced maritime arrivals". More >>
Rudd misses boat with Malaysian people smuggling
Monday, 6 July 2009, 5:25 pm | Project SafeCom
"While the spin around the Prime Minister's trip to Malaysia amounts to pretty cheap political pointscoring and loads the dice around people smuggling myths, and is objectionable in the context of what Malaysia actually does to asylum seekers ... More >>
Rudd Govt no-privatisation backflip
Wednesday, 1 July 2009, 3:38 pm | Project SafeCom
"The Rudd government's blatant backflip on its 2007 ALP party platform - at the time confirmed at its National Policy Convention under Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith MP - to return immigration detention contracting to the Australian public service ... More >>
End 'Christmas Island Community Jailing'
Thursday, 7 May 2009, 1:20 pm | Project SafeCom
"Chris Evans should stop being a whimp and make good on the promises he has made at a lecture last year at ANU where he declared and end to asylum seeker jailing after initial health and security checks, and he should institute a new bridging ... More >>
Should Oskar Schindler 'Rot In Hell' Too?
Monday, 20 April 2009, 2:56 pm | Project SafeCom
"The remarks by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd last Friday about people smugglers where he blasted them as the 'scum of the earth' who should 'rot in jail and rot in hell', are based on a very poor judgment of the complexity of the issues and they are politically ... More >>
Rescue shines against 'A political Heart of Stone'
Friday, 17 April 2009, 2:13 pm | Project SafeCom
"It must be a comforting experience for many advocates and refugees who entered Australia since 2001, that the boat emergency near Ashmore Reef yesterday was followed by a fully developed emergency, rescue and medical response where we saw Navy Operations, ... More >>
Border Protection Nonsense
Thursday, 9 April 2009, 1:22 pm | Project SafeCom
"The fact that a boat with 40 Iraqis can arrive unannounced even while the Rudd government continues its spin and nonsense about coastal surveillance and border protection, provides many lessons for politicians who want to keep using smoke and mirrors, including ... More >>
Broke Fishermen Are Not 'People Smugglers'
Friday, 6 March 2009, 11:55 am | Project SafeCom
"Australia's people smuggling laws are an abysmal manipulative interpretation and implementation of the United Nations People Smuggling Convention, a left-over from a government that sought to vilify asylum seekers and refugees, and they urgently ... More >>
Need for disaster intensification deliberations
Monday, 9 February 2009, 1:16 pm | Project SafeCom
"Project SafeCom today shares the deep grief and intense distress increasingly felt around the nation over the devastating Victorian fires," spokesman Jack H Smit said this morning. More >>
No Room in the Australian Inn
Saturday, 27 December 2008, 1:28 pm | Project SafeCom
"During this Christmas holiday, there is - contrary to repeated promises by the Immigration Minister Senator Chris Evans - no room in 'the Australian Inn' for the first boatload of a dozen asylum seekers, who have now been jailed on the isolated ... More >>
John Howard's House of Horrors
Tuesday, 23 December 2008, 1:10 pm | Project SafeCom
"This morning the Immigration Minister Chris Evans will issue a statement, declaring that he has been forced to open John Howard's $400 million House of Horrors on Christmas Island as a result of the recent influx of asylum boats - but what he will fail to ... More >>
Opposition to Death Penalty
Tuesday, 11 November 2008, 3:22 pm | Project SafeCom
"There has been no noise, no statements, and no expression of Australia's long-held opposition to the death penalty in the context of Indonesia's execution of the Bali Bombers, and while this sorry undermining of Australia's strong and principled opposition ... More >>
