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Howard should bring true "Deliverance" to Papuans
Wednesday, 5 April 2006, 7:41 pm | Project SafeCom
"As - still unconfirmed - reports place the presumably asylum-seeking family of the West Papuan Union activist, including a baby, as having landed on Deliverance Island, just inside the Australia-PNG border, Australia's PM John Howard should show ... More >>
"Asylum barges" Dutch MP meets "Nauru" PM Howard
Monday, 3 April 2006, 7:44 pm | Project SafeCom
"According to reporter Barrie Cassidy of ABC's Insiders yesterday, the visit from today till Thursday by Dutch PM Jan Pieter Balkenende may 'throw up some immigration issues', but both the Dutch PM and John Howard have tainted their government's reign ... More >>
Dutch PM should raise West Papua issue with Howard
Monday, 3 April 2006, 7:29 pm | Project SafeCom
Dutch PM should raise West Papua issue with Howard "The Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mr Jan Pieter Balkenende, who will this week be in Australia on an official visit, should raise the issue of independence for West Papua with the Australian ... More >>
Dutch PM should raise West Papua issue with Howard
Monday, 3 April 2006, 4:54 pm | Project SafeCom
"The Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mr Jan Pieter Balkenende, who will this week be in Australia on an official visit, should raise the issue of independence for West Papua with the Australian Prime Minister John Howard, says WA Rights group ... More >>
Mentally ill detainees "dumped" against advice
Saturday, 1 April 2006, 4:07 pm | Project SafeCom
"Regardless of the serious concerns expressed about "Mr X" in the latest Ombudsman's report into the dealings with what has now become Australia's longest incarcerated mentally ill detainee, he remains in danger, unless the Immigration ... More >>
Only a post-Howard Royal Commission into DIMA do
Thursday, 30 March 2006, 7:40 pm | Project SafeCom
Only a post-Howard Royal Commission into DIMA will reveal all WA Rights group Project SafeCom renewed its call this morning for a Royal Commission into the treatment of refugees, asylum seekers and immigration detainees under the Howard government, upon ... More >>
Indonesia Diplomatic Row with Aust.: "Let it Rip!"
Wednesday, 29 March 2006, 9:34 pm | Project SafeCom
Indonesia Diplomatic Row: "Let it Rip!" over 'illegal migrants' Let the Diplomatic Row with Indonesia Rip, especially over Indonesia's threat to stop cooperating with Australia over what one Indonesian spokesman last week termed 'illegal migrants'," ... More >>
Indonesia: "Let it Rip!" over 'illegal migrants'
Tuesday, 28 March 2006, 2:26 pm | Project SafeCom
Let the Diplomatic Row with Indonesia Rip, especially over Indonesia's threat to stop cooperating with Australia over what one Indonesian spokesman last week termed 'illegal migrants'," says WA Rights group Project SafeCom this morning. More >>
Aust: Immigration Dept engages in ethnic cleansing
Friday, 10 March 2006, 8:10 pm | Project SafeCom
WA rights group Project SafeCom has accused the Howard government and the Department of Immigration of attempting to engage in ethnic cleansing, after the refusal to grant returning deportee Mr Robert Jovicic by acting Immigration Minister Julie Bishop. More >>
Aust.: Cross-the-floor Bungle exposes Labor Party
Thursday, 2 March 2006, 3:34 pm | Project SafeCom
"The hugely embarrassing gaffe this morning in the Senate, where Labor "by accident" voted with the government, opposing compensation demands put by The Greens' Senator Kerry Nettle for Ms Cornelia Rau, who was mistakenly locked up by ... More >>
"Refugees don't sink damned boats, Mr Howard!"
Monday, 27 February 2006, 2:20 pm | Project SafeCom
"Refugees don't sink damned boats, Mr Howard!," says WA Rights group Project SafeCom this morning, after The Australian reported today that the Prime Minister John Howard in the book "The Howard factor", sponsored by The Australian, ... More >>
Aust.: Reveal details of latest DIMIA Bungles
Wednesday, 15 February 2006, 3:30 pm | Project SafeCom
"The Immigration Minister Senator Amanda Vanstone should immediately make public all details of who exactly in the latest round of DIMIA 'lock-em-up and kick-em-out scandals' has fallen victim to the tentacles of her bureaucrats, and in what way ... More >>
Opposition should ask Queen to sack Howard govt
Wednesday, 15 February 2006, 2:13 pm | Project SafeCom
WA Rights group Project SafeCom, in response to news reports that CSIRO scientists have been gagged in speaking out on environmental emergencies, and in response to Crikey reports published last week - with more revelations about the "Mafia" ... More >>
ASIO "interviews" Brisbane peace worker O'Reilly
Tuesday, 7 February 2006, 3:54 pm | Project SafeCom
"Agents of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) have approached and interviewed Christian peace and non-violence activist Ciaron O'Reilly upon his return to Australia at Brisbane airport last Friday, in what appears a very similar ... More >>
Indonesia: stop interfering in Aust. refugee issue
Tuesday, 7 February 2006, 2:24 pm | Project SafeCom
"Indonesian foreign affairs minister Hasan Wirayuda should concentrate on getting Indonesia's own house in order instead of trying to influence refugee assessments in Australia through the media by trying to pressure Australia and challenge any ... More >>
Detention places Papuan families in murder danger
Friday, 27 January 2006, 10:10 am | Project SafeCom
"The fact that DIMIA has placed Papuan families, men, women and children in staff housing, openly visible from the beach on Christmas island, places them as well as their families and relatives in West Papua in a direct 'line of fire' and ... More >>
Raise the Flag and Cry Merdeka: West Papuan asylum
Monday, 23 January 2006, 3:57 pm | Project SafeCom
The first traditional West Papuan boat, a canoe with outriggers, arrived on Australian shores this week from West Papua. The heat is on the Howard government especially because the Indonesian government allegedly embarked upon "revenge attacks" ... More >>
West Papuan killings a 4-decade Indonesian pattern
Monday, 23 January 2006, 3:54 pm | Project SafeCom
"Killings and violence by Indonesian police and TNI in West Papua constitute a 'well-established pattern' that has been going on for four decades since the hand-over of West Papua by the Dutch and the 'Act of Free Choice' referendum, a recently commissioned ... More >>
West Papuan asylum seekers: a background briefing
Saturday, 21 January 2006, 11:52 pm | Project SafeCom
Raise the Flag and Cry Merdeka West Papuan asylum seekers: a background briefing on the issues at stake More >>
Vanstone's refugee injustice: Papuans detained
Friday, 20 January 2006, 1:54 pm | Project SafeCom
"With the announcement that a boatload of West Papuan asylum seekers, who yesterday arrived at Cape York, are being flown to Christmas Island, callously carted back outside the Migration zone, the Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone stands condemned ... More >>
