While the Senate Subcommittee came out in favour of a much-amended Migration Amendment Bill 2024 … it is not too late to reject the premise of the legislation or to create a more coherent Bill, whose wider implications are intentional and more integrated, say advocates.
Refugee advocates invite Senators to reject the Bill a second time and trigger a broader review of deportation powers in the wider context of all immigration legislation.
The Budget should not be used as a smokescreen for passage of a sloppy Bill accompanied by a few haphazard amendments.
The entire matrix of legislation becomes increasingly patchwork and draconian if sweeping and discriminatory powers for deportation (affecting any single immigration category) are passed.
Over 500 submissions to the Labor-dominated Senate inquiry opposed the bill. The submission by Home Affairs itself represented the only significant support for the bill.
Dissenters within the inquiry included the Greens, independent Senator Pocock and even the Coalition.
“It is ironic but welcome that the Coalition which stranded children on Nauru has suddenly expressed a concern for minors,” said long-term refugee supporter Jane Salmon.
“However, they are doing this to flay the Government, rather than to generate coherent solutions to immigration dilemmas.
“When in power, the Coalition has displayed no respect for the human rights of minors” remarked refugee advocate Jane Salmon. “Topsy turvy world, isn’t it!”
“Almost all deportations potentially impact children born here or overseas”.
“Ironically, the Government is also importing tradies while denying refugee tradies here for 12 years the right to work and contribute to the economy.
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“The contributions of refugees are being overlooked.
“Australia has invested in the education of young matriculating students in immigration limbo who, under this Amendment, are still denied a pathway into higher education and professions.
“Many children of Iranian parents have grown up wearing western fashions, expressing themselves openly and with a capacity for higher education. Meanwhile they have family members who have been harassed, disappeared or executed back in Iran. These kids are actually terrified of the Bill.
Abbas Ghezzy’s father returned to Iran during Covid. Being stateless, he had no work or source of income whilst in Australia. He had protested Iran’s treatment of racial minorities in Canberra while here. On his return, he was detained, beaten and has since disappeared. The family was warned to cease demonstrations in Australia.
Abbas’s remaining family in Australia still has no pathway to protection.
Abbas says he finds the Bill “racist and discriminatory.”
Communities are stressed to be sure.
‘Golden Ticket’ or student migration levels may be set too high, says Salmon, but it is not refugees who are causing inflation or crowding Australians out of affordable housing.
The Bill still offers no solutions for victims of the flawed and failed “Fast Track” process.
“It is important that the wrong-doing of a handful of neglected and now mentally ill and former detainees (few of whom are actually recognised as refugees) does NOT become the pretext for wholesale cruelty. Media is still stereotyping and distorting issues related to the ASF-17 case.”
“Human rights are not assisted by this sort of general scapegoating or criminalisation of the stateless or those legitimately seeking protection by Australia as refugees.”
An overall review of Home Affairs is needed. Independent MP Kylea Tink again called for such a review again on Tuesday night at a Climate 200 fundraiser in the electorate of Bradfield.
“Let’s make sure all pieces of the immigration puzzle fit together properly,” said Ms Salmon.
Rallies on Saturday, May 11th:
- Sydney: RAC Sydney rally at 12 noon at Sydney Town Hall. Facebook event.
- Brisbane: RAC Qld rally at 10am at Reddacliff Place, 266 George Street. Facebook event.
- Melbourne: RAC Vic rally at 2pm at the State Library. Facebook event.
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More bipartisan bigotry supported by RW MSM and voters from the tactics of the US Tanton Network using ‘demography’ or numbers to support attitudes toward the ‘other’, under the guise of ecology.
It’s the network of former ZPG (Rockefeller/Exxon) and Paul ‘Population Bomb’ Ehrlich’s colleague, deceased white nationalist John ‘passive eugenics’ Tanton who admired white Oz policy, visited and hosted by SPA (have admitted this); he was described by US SPLC as the ‘racist founder of the modern anti-immigration movement’, they target and influence media, MPs, migration committees and policies.
A couple of NSW right wing ‘koalas’ (protected species) need a heads up as in turn, it means that former Labor Premier, FM & SPA patron Bob Carr and former PM Tony Abbott, share the same forest or ecosystem, via offshore?
In the US Koch and Tanton Network share same fossil fuel donors, see Binkowski article (22 Aug ’22) including donor network chart ‘Eugenics, Border Wars & Population Control: The Tanton Network’, meanwhile the same themes are running hot in US, UK, Canada, Europe and Ireland nowadays RW MSM & social media to denigrate refugees/migrants like UK govt. and/or wedge in ALP & Democrats on border control; too easy…..
https://unicornriot.ninja/2022/eugenics-border-wars-population-control-the-tanton-network/
Abbott, an alleged supporter of Ukraine, is registered as an employee of Danube Institute (partnered with fossil fuel Koch Network & support of PM ‘mini Putin’ Orban) in Budapest, while on Fox Board too.
His lead at the Danube Institute John O’Sullivan (Quadrant’s Euro correspondent) knew Tanton and also mutual friend Brimelow via The National Review. Brimelow is behind the VDare website, ‘Virginia Dare’ first English child born in the US, was part of the Fox News organisational chart (to the surprise of many insiders, see NYT & Media Matters), and also around the ascent of Tucker Carlson….
Wheels within wheels, but many Australians need to be careful they don’t get caught up in the spokes and get thrown under the vehicle, when things get tricky….
Andrew Smith,
The population bomb has already exploded. You show absolutely no comprehension of the environmental impact that billions of people have made on this planet. Your pathetic fantasies about racial bigotry have nothing to do with the unceasing ecological damage that is being inflicted by the needs, the industries and activities of people of all cultures whose total global numbers have leapt from one billion to eight billion in just the last century alone.
Overpopulation is responsible not just for climate change, but also unprecedented habitat destruction and loss of biodiversity that is inevitably leading to global ecological collapse. How do you suppose all those billions of people will survive that? Your insulting comments suggest that you simply haven’t got a clue what ecology is all about.
It is right and proper that refugee status is given to those who flee a country that kills men for criticising a book and rapes and murders women for such sexual impropriety as showing their hair.
I find it weird that any Iranian, Afghan or Rohynga, moslem could return home freely and not expect to be mistreated?
So, I cannot find any reason to stop a bill that may prevent crimes, like the robbery and bashing of an old woman by the detainee criminal recently freed from detention.