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Hunger Strikers Assaulted And Mistreated
Monday, 23 April 2007, 10:43 am | Project SafeCom
Refugee groups today accused Immigration and GSL management of collective punishment of detainees in the Villawood detention centre in the aftermath of two detainees escaping last night (Friday). More >>
Photos Of Embarkation Of Nauru Charter
Tuesday, 20 March 2007, 9:07 am | Project SafeCom
"The Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews needs to explain to Australians whether or not he told the 83 Sri Lankan asylum seekers (who were flown to Nauru Saturday 17 March in the afternoon) in a letter handed to them before embarkation that they ... More >>
Sending Sri Lankans to Indonesia endangers lives
Tuesday, 27 February 2007, 2:47 pm | Project SafeCom
"Sending the 83 Sri Lankan asylum seekers currently held on Christmas Island to Indonesia, no matter whether Indonesia would guarantee their safety, would immediately put all their families in Sri Lanka at the risk of being arrested, imprisoned, tortured and ... More >>
Nauru for Sri Lankans will cost Howard votes
Friday, 23 February 2007, 2:35 pm | Project SafeCom
"If the Prime Minister John Howard decides 'on behalf of his Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews' to send the 85 Sri Lankan asylum seekers to Nauru, he is likely to pay a high price at the 2007 Federal election as a 'thank-you' by the 'doctors' wives' ... More >>
Only reinstatement will silence Jovicic case call
Tuesday, 20 February 2007, 3:50 pm | Project SafeCom
"Only a complete reversal of the scandalous attempts by the Howard government to rid Australia of one of its own, will satisfy its critics, and that is why Mr Robert Jovicic should be given back his permanent residency visa," WA Rights group Project ... More >>
Flannery should address solar-thermal power
Thursday, 8 February 2007, 4:43 pm | Project SafeCom
"The recently chosen Australian of the Year Dr Tim Flannery, who yesterday on ABC Lateline argued that Australia will eventually have no other choice than to phase out the coal industry, forced by worldwide social responsibility pressures and "dirty ... More >>
Link between Islamic raids, Fedral Imam training?
Friday, 2 February 2007, 4:53 pm | Project SafeCom
"The Howard government needs to categorically state that there is no link at all between its plans to take control of all training of Imams in the granting of Federal funding to three Universities, for the establishment of Islamic Colleges of Excellence, ... More >>
Australia had Centuries of "suspicious arrivals"
Thursday, 1 February 2007, 1:03 pm | Project SafeCom
"The Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews shows how boring, stayed and outdated his views are, and he shows that his peddling of the line of "suspiciousness" of boat arrivals is wholly derived from the attempts to delude Australians about the rights ... More >>
Demand for outside ASIO scrutineer
Thursday, 1 February 2007, 11:56 am | Project SafeCom
"The fact, that now, after five years and yet another "security threat ASIO assessment", Nauru imprisoned refugee Muhammad Faisal is suddenly granted a permanent protection visa, while it is welcome, provides serious grounds to raise ... More >>
CSIRO needs internat'l support to counter Howard
Tuesday, 9 January 2007, 10:52 am | Project SafeCom
"Australia's CSIRO Scientists need and should look for reputable international scientific colleagues in their community, to help them both expose and counter the intimidation, bullying, and destruction of their reports and the silencing that's become so commonplace ... More >>
Six hangings at Baxter detention centre
Wednesday, 13 December 2006, 10:04 am | Project SafeCom
"Reports from refugee advocates indicate that six people at the Baxter detention centre have attempted to end their lives in separate incidents over the last four days by hanging," WA Rights group Project SafeCom said this morning. More >>
Six hangings at Baxter detention centre
Tuesday, 12 December 2006, 12:29 am | Project SafeCom
"Reports from refugee advocates indicate that six people at the Baxter detention centre have attempted to end their lives in separate incidents over the last four days by hanging," WA Rights group Project SafeCom said this morning. More >>
Gambaro's Human Rights funding smacks of hypocrisy
Monday, 11 December 2006, 12:07 am | Project SafeCom
"The $850,000 funding announcement for Human rights in Cambodia by Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs Teresa Gambaro on International Human Rights Day 2006 is an example of gross hypocrisy by the Howard government, and it is meant as a "look ... More >>
Human Rights Lobby should punt for "Harry Potter"
Sunday, 3 December 2006, 1:27 pm | Project SafeCom
"The entire human rights lobby in Australia should back the Labor Party's Harry Potter - Kevin Rudd, who not only carries the nickname of the magic wunderkind Harry Potter, but who also looks like him," WA Rights group Project SafeCom said this ... More >>
Iraq War claims another Australian victim
Monday, 27 November 2006, 2:52 pm | Project SafeCom
"The Iraq war, organised by the Coalition of the Willing, which soon may just be a war where only, in Filmmaker Michael Moore's turn of phrase "two stupid white men" are involved - Australian PM John Howard and US President George Bush - has claimed ... More >>
Australia's Alcatraz: History will judge Howard
Thursday, 16 November 2006, 3:18 pm | Project SafeCom
"History will not be kind to the ageing Australian Prime Minister John Howard over his control of people fleeing regimes such as Saddam Hussein and the Taliban - and even perhaps in the near future people fleeing countries destroyed by climate disasters," ... More >>
Vanstone delight on deportation is a devil's dance
Thursday, 9 November 2006, 2:38 pm | Project SafeCom
"The Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone's "welcoming" of the High Court decision that clears the way for deportation of Mr Stefan Nystrom, the Swedish-born man who lived in Australia since he was one month old, and her announcement that ... More >>
Consequences of failing citizenship candidates
Tuesday, 19 September 2006, 9:37 am | Project SafeCom
"The citizenship test flagged by the Howard government, while it once again is a wedge policy, splitting asunder harmony and homogeneity in the Australian community, and while it harps back to the days of the White Australia policy - and as such should ... More >>
ALP, backbenchers should support Visa motion
Wednesday, 6 September 2006, 3:46 pm | Project SafeCom
"In the context of the horrors created by the government's cruel Bridging Visa E restrictions, where, for years on end, holders of the "Living Under the Bridges Visa" are not allowed to have any money, are not allowed access to Medicare, are not allowed ... More >>
Mike Rann makes SA govt look ridiculous over Knack
Monday, 4 September 2006, 12:50 am | Project SafeCom
"SA Premier Mike Rann makes his government look ridiculous over the unprecedented Hansard ban of Democrats MLC Sandra Kanck's Euthanasia speech, because within weeks dozens of copies of the speech will be posted on Blogs and websites, and these posts ... More >>
