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No spin will undo dirty deals with Indonesia
Tuesday, 15 August 2006, 3:19 pm | Project SafeCom
"No matter how fast and how hard the Immigration Minister and the Foreign Affairs Minister push their spin lines this week over "some people who are not Indonesian who might like to come to Australia"now that Indonesia alludes to releasing its held ... More >>
Migration Bill defeat a win for democracy, rights
Monday, 14 August 2006, 3:32 pm | Project SafeCom
"The fact that the Prime Minister has conceded defeat over his Migration Amendment Bill 2006 constitutes a win for human rights, for decency and for the democratic process," WA Rights group Project SafeCom said on the breaking news. More >>
Howard government adds another dark victory
Thursday, 10 August 2006, 4:40 pm | Project SafeCom
"In passing the most deplorable Migration Amendment Bill through the House of Representatives at 11am this morning, The Howard government has added another dark victory to its deplorable tally of "achievements" since the Tampa legislation set Australia on course ... More >>
Walk across the Nullarbor for Indigenous Rights
Tuesday, 8 August 2006, 12:23 am | Project SafeCom
Pam Morris and Jane Paterson, two women in their seventies from Perth ‘Women In Black’, feel so strongly about the effects of white racism in Australia on Indigenous Australians that they have walked over the Nullarbor plain to bring that message ... More >>
Privatisation of Border Control In Australia
Wednesday, 2 August 2006, 9:53 am | Project SafeCom
"The decision to 'farm out border control' to private operators will soon set the scene where no citizen or conscientious parliamentarian will ever know about any asylum seekers attempting to reach Australia in their genuine hope for United Nations ... More >>
Urgent Assistance Required For Seriously Ill Child
Monday, 31 July 2006, 10:20 am | Project SafeCom
The Call to Action below on behalf of a young Afghan boy is gaining traction, with now wide dispersion of the urgent call from Ms Pamela Curr, ChilOut, Project SafeCom and Ms Freddie Steen in Brisbane. More >>
Aust. set to "deport" sick 9-year-old Afghan boy
Monday, 31 July 2006, 3:56 am | Project SafeCom
"Acting squarely against explicit doctors' advice at the Brisbane Children's Hospital who told officials to not relocate the boy and his family to any remote detention facility, a nine-year-old Afghan boy who in recent weeks underwent an operation ... More >>
Dr Helen Caldicott and Nuclear Power
Thursday, 20 July 2006, 8:40 pm | Project SafeCom
As the heat of conflict increases in the Middle East, so does the aggression of powerful nations, and no matter what any better knowing should tell us, some nations may well see fit to consider resorting to nuclear weapons to assert their dominance - believing ... More >>
Aust: Protect Falun Gong from "organ harvesting"
Tuesday, 11 July 2006, 8:28 pm | Project SafeCom
Govt, Ministers, should intervene to protect Falun Gong from "organ harvesting" "The Australian government should publicly attack China over "organ harvesting" of its Falun Gong political prisoners, while at the same time through the Immigration ... More >>
Aust: Perth women walk to Canberra against racism
Saturday, 8 July 2006, 12:55 am | Project SafeCom
Three Perth women walk to Canberra against racism Three women well into their sixties and seventies are setting off next week Tuesday from Perth in Western Australia to cross the Nullarbor on foot and deliver to Canberra's Federal Government seat the ... More >>
DIMA Migration Amendment Submission: "a queer act"
Wednesday, 14 June 2006, 9:17 pm | Project SafeCom
"The submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee about the latest Migration Amendment Bill - the only one amongst the 138 submissions received that supports the Bill - is the queerest submission of the lot, and deeply disturbing ... More >>
"Cornelia Rau Discoverer" speaks World Refugee Day
Wednesday, 14 June 2006, 9:14 pm | Project SafeCom
A Project SafeCom World Refugee Day event at Kulcha Melbourne-based Refugee campaigner Ms Pamela Curr, who in collaboration with other advocates and detainees in the Baxter detention centre and subsequent assistance from The Age reporter Andra Jackson[1], ... More >>
Australia: Nuclear power/mining demands referendum
Wednesday, 7 June 2006, 9:50 pm | Project SafeCom
"The use of nuclear power as well as the expansion of the nuclear industry in Australia should be subject to a national referendum, but only after a substantial education and information campaign that also includes the modelling by CSIRO," ... More >>
Aust. Family held, grave concerns for sick child
Thursday, 1 June 2006, 9:05 pm | Project SafeCom
Pamela Curr Campaign coordinator Asylum Seeker Resource Centre An Amnesty representative and an Afghan community member attempted to visit this family at the Royal Children's Hospital in Brisbane on Sunday night but were blocked by guards. The child was given ... More >>
Senate Inquiry Findings a Foregone Conclusion
Monday, 29 May 2006, 9:45 am | Project SafeCom
"The findings of the Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee Inquiry into the provisions of the Migration Amendment (Designated Unauthorised Arrivals) Bill 2006 - the Bill we at Project SafeCom call the "Ban The Boatpeople Bill" should already become abundantly ... More >>
Australia risks becoming "dark kingdom" in refugee
Thursday, 20 April 2006, 8:17 pm | Project SafeCom
"Australia runs the risk of becoming a world leader in the dark sense with its proposed changes which intend to ban all boat arrivals from processing and resettlement within Australian territories," WA Rights group Project SafeCom said this morning. More >>
Australia and refugee warehousing
Thursday, 20 April 2006, 4:19 pm | Project SafeCom
"Australia runs the risk of becoming a world leader in the dark sense with its proposed changes which intend to ban all boat arrivals from processing and resettlement within Australian territories," WA Rights group Project SafeCom said this morning. More >>
Call to Action: Australia banishes all boat people
Wednesday, 19 April 2006, 9:14 pm | Project SafeCom
A scandalous and brutal Bill has been proposed by the Howard government to block all access to Australia of all asylum seekers arriving by boat, both for processing their claims and for settlement if these claims prove true. We need a dozen Liberal ... More >>
Aust.: MP disgraces himself with "illegal" spin
Monday, 10 April 2006, 7:47 pm | Project SafeCom
Justice Minister disgraces himself with continuing "illegal" spin "The Justice and Customs Minister, Senator Chris Ellison, should be mercilessly hauled over the coals by the Australian Media, because nobody in the Howard Ministry will ... More >>
Howard tries Tampa Dogwhistle round over W. Papua
Friday, 7 April 2006, 1:36 pm | Project SafeCom
"The fact that the Australian Prime Minister John Howard stated yesterday that he doesn't want more West Papuans, and that he had the audacity to suggest that 'the majority of Australians' have that view shows he once again tries to introduce dirty ... More >>
