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West Papuans seek shelter from persecution
Thursday, 19 January 2006, 4:30 pm | Project SafeCom
Today I find myself deeply moved, not just because a boat of young student activists and their families en route to Australia went missing (it has now been found), but also because the cry "Merdeka!", the FREEDOM cry of the people of Irian ... More >>
DIMIA's Half a Million Dollar Deportation stopped
Thursday, 19 January 2006, 4:24 pm | Project SafeCom
"Lawyers for a Turkish man from Kurdistan yesterday successfully obtained an injunction against the forcible deportation plans for the man by the Minister for Immigration, on the grounds that deportation would surely further deteriorate his ... More >>
Minister attempts to deport suicidal detainee
Thursday, 19 January 2006, 4:21 pm | Project SafeCom
"A suicidal asylum seeker, who has been in detention since 2004, and who only a few weeks ago was diagnosed as a patient with 'suicidal ideation' by South Australian psychiatrists in the Glenside psychiatric hospital, is under threat of being deported ... More >>
Rights group skeptical about Vanstone impartiality
Thursday, 19 January 2006, 4:18 pm | Project SafeCom
WA Rights group Project SafeCom remains skeptical over Immigration Minister Vanstone's statements this morning that relationships with Indonesia will not influence the asylum claim assessments of the boatload of Papua New Guineans that arrived at Weipa ... More >>
Lobbyists applaud ALP's push for Climate Refugees
Thursday, 5 January 2006, 5:22 pm | Project SafeCom
"WA Human rights lobby and action group Project SafeCom, who last year endorsed the Friends Of the Earth's Climate Refugees Policy, expressed support this morning for the push by Federal Labor for long overdue focus on the issue of Climate Refugees, ... More >>
Anti-terrorism dissenters leave MP in Cold
Wednesday, 30 November 2005, 1:32 pm | Project SafeCom
WA Human Rights action and lobby group Project SafeCom Inc. called this morning for an explanation by ALP backbenchers and dissenters with the Anti-terrorism Bill No 2 (2005) which passed through the House last night without a division being called. More >>
Another Australian deported by Immigration
Friday, 25 November 2005, 7:31 pm | Project SafeCom
"Any talk of 'culture change' within Australia's Department of Immigration following the Vivian Solon and Cornelia Rau debacles and the more than 200 listed cases of unlawful deportation and imprisonment in immigration detention amounts to hypocricy ... More >>
DIMIA vilifies Baxter detainees by "spinning line"
Monday, 14 November 2005, 11:13 am | Project SafeCom
Baxter Fires: DIMIA vilifies detainees by "spinning line" about disturbances "WA Human Rights lobby group is extremely disturbed about media reports with DIMIA comment issued this morning, related to "several fires" which started ... More >>
Howard "terrorist alert" disgraceful intimidation
Wednesday, 2 November 2005, 4:43 pm | Project SafeCom
The Prime Minister, in his statement to reporters this morning, aided by the Attorney-General Phillip Ruddock, that he will rush through 'a bit' of the terrorism act based on a purported "report" of an impending threat without a complete and informed debate ... More >>
32 WA groups likely to say "NO" to terror laws
Wednesday, 2 November 2005, 4:26 pm | Project SafeCom
More than thirty-two community groups ranging from human rights to social justice organisations, groups and alliances and peace activists, both secular and church-based, will meet in what promises to become a powerful forum at the University of Western ... More >>
States should 'shred' prison detention agreements
Wednesday, 26 October 2005, 2:41 pm | Project SafeCom
"Yesterday's revelations by the Commonwealth Ombudsman that some of the 'probably' unlawfully locked-up Immigration detainees may have been detained for up to seven years raises the issue of detainees held - after completing a sentencing in one of ... More >>
Four years on, "Aussie" missing boat sparks search
Friday, 21 October 2005, 2:41 pm | Project SafeCom
"Today, on the fourth anniversary of the sinking of the unknown refugee boat dubbed SIEV-X by former diplomat Tony Kevin, a boat is once again missing in waters close to Australian maritime territory, but this time the missing boat has sparked ... More >>
Aust: Human Rights Commission on Migration Act
Monday, 10 October 2005, 9:27 pm | Project SafeCom
The President of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission John von Doussa QC and staff provided oral evidence before the Senate Legal and Constitutional References Committee’s Inquiry into the administration and operation of the Migration Act 1958 ... More >>
Aust: East Timor Petroleum Fund Growing Steadily
Monday, 10 October 2005, 9:20 pm | Project SafeCom
I welcome the East Timorese Government's recent announcement that the balance of its newly-established Petroleum Fund has reached around $330 million. More >>
Australia Responds to South Asia Earthquake
Monday, 10 October 2005, 9:18 pm | Project SafeCom
Australia has provided $500,000 for immediate medical and relief assistance in the wake of the major earthquakes in Pakistan, India and Afghanistan, the Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Bruce Billson, announced today. More >>
Aust: More Disgraceful & draconian Migration leg.
Monday, 10 October 2005, 9:02 pm | Project SafeCom
WA Rights lobby group Project SafeCom expresses its deep dismay and stunned amazement this morning at the audacity of the Howard government's scheduled 'Migration Litigation Reform Bill 2005' appearing on the parliamentary schedule for coming Tuesday (11 ... More >>
Aust. must consider climate: refugees & Pacific
Wednesday, 5 October 2005, 6:53 pm | Project SafeCom
"WA rights lobby group Project SafeCom - which recently endorsed the Friends Of the Earth's Climate Refugee campaign - argued this morning that any plans for cooperation between Australia and Pacific nations as proposed by ALP leader Kim Beazley ... More >>
Bakhtiyari papers were on Vanstone's Desk in 04
Wednesday, 28 September 2005, 1:58 pm | Project SafeCom
"Several Identity papers, confirming that the Bakhtiyari family were of Afghani nationality, were on the desk of Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone from January 2004," WA refugee lobby group Project SafeCom claims this morning, after the Sydney Morning Herald ... More >>
Aust: Vanstone's Baxter Cage spruce-up disgusting
Tuesday, 20 September 2005, 7:11 pm | Project SafeCom
"Lawyers working on submissions of Temporary Protection Visa holders of refugees from Afghanistan in the last year have confirmed to Project SafeCom that of all the Afghan TPV renewal applications - about 800 in total in Western Australia - the Department ... More >>
Blurring line between terrorism and civil protest
Wednesday, 14 September 2005, 9:16 pm | Project SafeCom
"The arrest of US teacher and Peace activist Scott Parkin, followed by his "holding incommunicado" - presumably in Court lock-up facility on the corner of Williams and Lonsdale Streets in Melbourne - constitutes a scandal and a deliberate undermining ... More >>
