Scoop has an Ethical Paywall
Scoop InfoPages
This InfoPage in unregistered, if this is your news page register Project SafeCom for InfoPages here.
Project SafeCom - Latest News [Page 5]
Hungerstrike in Villawood
Tuesday, 11 November 2008, 3:21 pm | Project SafeCom
"Yesterday evening's declaration of a hungerstrike by the entire Villawood resident population, by those in Stage 1, 2 and 3, supported by all 135 men and women (see statement below) provides Immigration Minister Chris Evans with the best opportunity ... More >>
Australia: Villawood Detainees On Hungerstrike
Tuesday, 11 November 2008, 9:05 am | Project SafeCom
We've just received notice that all detainees in all Stages 1, 2 and 3 have started a hunger strike. The hungerstrike involves all nationalities and all those in detention. More >>
Project SafeCom extends best wishes to Snedden
Wednesday, 27 August 2008, 11:44 am | Project SafeCom
"Project SafeCom extends its best wishes to Australian citizen Daniel Snedden (formerly known as Dragan Vasilykovic or "Capitan Dragan"), who served in the Serbian army during the Balkan war, for his appeal against an extradition ... More >>
Ex Diplomat Attacks Immigration On Al Masri Death
Monday, 4 August 2008, 8:30 am | Project SafeCom
Former Diplomat attacks Immigration over Al Masri death Media Release Sunday August 3, 2008 7:30am WST Former diplomat Bruce Haigh, a member of Project SafeCom's Steering Committee, who worked at the Foreign Desk in South Africa under apartheid, in Indonesia ... More >>
Budget buries Renewables as if it was Dirty Coal
Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 12:51 am | Project SafeCom
"This year's Budget by the Rudd government is good in many ways, but the massive pressure exerted by the Coal Industry Lobby, already evident during Rudd's 2020 Summit in April, is a win for that industry and acts as if the planet is not in crisis at ... More >>
Kalgoorlie Death In Custody Is Not The First One
Thursday, 31 January 2008, 12:56 am | Project SafeCom
Last weekend's death in custody of an Indigenous drink driving offender while in transit by van, an AIMS Van operated under the contract with the US company Global Solutions Ltd was not the first serious incident by this company. More >>
Chris Evans Should Heed His Strong Words
Tuesday, 18 December 2007, 10:52 am | Project SafeCom
There is no law in Australia and there is no international law, that makes unauthorised entry of our country by boat illegal; in fact the opposite is true by implication for the purposes of seeking asylum. More >>
Labor's New Immigration Policy Moves Applauded
Monday, 10 December 2007, 12:24 am | Project SafeCom
"Let there be some rain of social justice, so that the parched landscape of our conscience can start to live a little again. It is needed, sorely needed, and let it eventually become a downpour of decency," Mr Smit concluded. More >>
Group renews call for Immigration Royal Commission
Tuesday, 27 November 2007, 12:19 am | Project SafeCom
"Today we renew our call of a Royal Commission into the Immigration Department," WA Human Rights group Project SafeCom said this morning More >>
John Howard Vs. The UN Indigenous Peoples Treaty
Friday, 12 October 2007, 12:41 am | Project SafeCom
For John Howard, his new "practical reconciliation" should mean that he now joins the international community and supports Australia's signing up to the UN Indigenous Peoples Treaty and stop his Aboriginal communities landgrab," Mr Smit concluded. More >>
Labor Vs. Press & Citizen Detention Centre Visits
Friday, 5 October 2007, 4:39 pm | Project SafeCom
"If elected, A Kevin Rudd government should commit itself to an entirely open, unfettered and uncontrolled access policy to visiting any detained asylum seekers, after Greens Senator for NSW Kerry Nettle was barred twice from visiting the Villawood ... More >>
Typical Govt, Keelty Wrong On Displaced People
Tuesday, 25 September 2007, 3:03 pm | Project SafeCom
"In typical Howard government style, Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty gets it wrong on the issue of what could well be millions of people who may try to reach Australia in the context of climate crisis displacement," WA Human Rights ... More >>
Paddling 'Big John PM' Home
Monday, 17 September 2007, 3:57 pm | Project SafeCom
David Corlett, author of Following Them Home: The Fate of the Returned Asylum Seekers, will on Tuesday accompany the alter-ego of John Howard, 'Big John PM', home to Kirribilli in a sea kayak across Sydney Harbour. More >>
Sri Lankan Assessment Undermines UN Convention
Thursday, 13 September 2007, 11:28 am | Project SafeCom
"First the Immigration Minister has kept ignoring their pleas; pleas that had increased in intensity since February this year, culminating on 2007 World Refugee Day on June 20, when the asylum seekers issued a public letter." More >>
Stephen Harper Is A UN Treaty Underminer
Tuesday, 11 September 2007, 2:32 pm | Project SafeCom
"On this anniversary of the September 11 attacks in the USA, the Canadian PM Stephen Harper, who has on a previous visit to Australia declared that John Howard is his Hero and his Guru, is nothing more than a mouthpiece of the Prime Minister's ... More >>
Academic & Kayaker To Circle Christmas Island
Thursday, 26 July 2007, 3:56 pm | Project SafeCom
La Trobe University Researcher Dr David Corlett has teamed up with Simon Keenan to paddle Australia's "forbidden zone" for asylum seekers, as well as move in other significant areas in the vicinity of Australia's detention centres. More >>
World Refugee Day still marred
Wednesday, 20 June 2007, 1:09 pm | Project SafeCom
"UN World Refugee Day in Australia today is still marred by Howard's Heart of Darkness, with Chinese Falun Gong practitioners being held incommunicado in Sydney's Villawood, 83 Sri Lankans having been deported to live outside the reach of Australia's ... More >>
Costello's Climate Denial Budget
Thursday, 10 May 2007, 12:22 am | Project SafeCom
"The Budget, as brought down by the Treasurer Peter Costello tonight, shows that the Howard government "only believes in recycling" when it comes to Climate Change strategies, and that is, that Costello recycles used previous election ... More >>
Howard's Swap policy already bears 'sour fruits'
Tuesday, 8 May 2007, 3:13 pm | Project SafeCom
"The Immigration policy where Australia would send a number of its "unwashed and unwanted" asylum seekers seeking legitimate protection in Australia to the USA, in return for receiving Haitians and Cubans from the USA is already coming back ... More >>
Indonesia plans look like UNHCR Warehousing Bribe
Friday, 4 May 2007, 11:41 am | Project SafeCom
"The plans announced by the Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews as reported in the press overnight, give the impression of another 'Golden Shekels' attempt to not just block any entry into Australia of asylum seekers attempting to reach Australia ... More >>
