Australia distances itself from the concluding statement of the Middle East Peace conference in Paris, where countries met to try to revive the stalled peace process between Israelis and Palestinians.
Category: Australia’s Shame
Residents of the Iraqi city of Mosul said up to 30 civilians were killed in an air strike on a district held by Islamic State this week.
Source: Air raid targeting IS militant kills up to 30 civilians in Iraq’s Mosul, residents
The lengths the Turnbull Government goes to to hide the sheer level of barbarity of Manus proves Australia recognises its guilt.
Source: Manus: Australia cannot wash asylum seeker blood off its hands
Indonesia suspends all military cooperation with Australia over allegedly insulting training material on display at a Special Forces base in Perth.
Syrian refugees are so desperate for money and passage to Europe, they are selling their organs on the black market, according to some experts.
Manus Island MP Ronny Knight has declared that two asylum seekers who say they were bashed by police and PNG immigration officials on New Year’s Eve “deserved what they got”.
Source: ‘Bashed’ asylum seekers on Manus Island ‘deserved what they got’: PNG minister
Two of the Coalition’s leading conservatives have been named as “special guests” at a $150-per-head dinner being held by anti-Islamic group, the Q Society of Australia.
Source: Cory Bernardi and George Christensen to attend dinner for anti-Islam group
Two asylum seekers on Manus Island assaulted by PNG police and immigration officers on New Year’s Eve are yet to receive medical treatment, refugee advocates say.
Detainees’ letter claims medical staff ignored months of escalating complaints before Faysal Ishak Ahmed collapsed
Inmates ‘kicked the officers and staff out in a serious way’ for a night of protest, says Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani
Source: Manus Island detainees rebel against guards after death of refugee | Australia news | The Guardian
The detainees on Manus Island began to fear the worst when Border Force officials began asking if anyone had contact details for a young v.
Source: Why did Faysal die? The questions Mr Dutton has to answer
A year or so ago I met with a very senior official in the Turnbull government’s Border Force. We discussed the fact that the lives of 32,000 people who had sought asylum after July 2013 were slowly being destroyed despite the fact that not even one asylum seeker boat had reached our shores during the previous two years. More than 2000 people were marooned on Nauru and Manus Island. Thirty thousand or more were living in Australia, but in a permanent state of fear and existential insecurity.
Source: Yes, Virginia, there is a solution to Australia’s asylum-seeker problem | The Monthly
Some of them just love to make a spectacle of themselves. They love to be the centre of attention [and] the best way to be the centre of attention is to be making things difficult for the government. As good a commentary on the behaviour of former prime ministers as I’ve seen.
Source: Reshuffle chatter | The Monthly
Andreas Tölke, a German fashionista, threw open his Armani couch, the city of Hamburg opened up its schools, and Berlin turned department stores into shelters for thousands of families.
Nearly one in three of the nation’s child suicides (5-17 years of age) are of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.
Source: Australia’s shame: Some communities have 600 times the national suicide rate
In one huge section of the reef, more than two-thirds of corals are dead.
Source: Scientists Confirm Great Barrier Reef Coral Die-Off Is Worst On Record – BuzzFeed News
Indigenous people share personal stories of racism, after Pauline Hanson says there is no definition of Aboriginal.
Desperate mothers believe it is safer for their children to go to Africa.
We take in war criminals but ban forever those who have done nothing but need our help.
Source: Australia’s fall from Lucky Country to Cruel Country
That one of the wealthiest societies the world has ever seen cannot find the will and means to allow its Indigenous people the freedom of self-determination, the freedom from mass incarceration, the freedom from systemic discrimination, is to our great, collective, continuing shame.
Source: The treatment of Aboriginal people is our great collective continuing shame
The government wants to rush strict new immigration laws through parliament.
Source: Asylum Seekers To Be Banned From Australia ‘For Life’
“Nine out of 10 times our children are placed away from their cultural practices.”
Source: “A New Stolen Generation”: Expert’s Warning On Aboriginal Child Removals – BuzzFeed News
Australia has made no progress in the fight against poverty over a decade, according to a recently released report.
High Indigenous mortality rates mean Indigenous children may observe the death of relatives and experience grieving more often than the general population.
Source: How discrimination and stressful events affect the health of our Indigenous kids
Amnesty International found that they face unspeakable horrors on Nauru island.
Source: Australian Government Allows Severe Mistreatment Of Refugees, Report Says | Huffington Post
‘The nation should weep when six-year-olds contemplate suicide … the disconnect is not with culture but with hope.’ ~ Gerry Georgatos
Source: Aboriginal suicide at crisis levels and the nation should weep
I walked past a man sitting on a bench in an inner-city park on Thursday. He was clearly drunk, clutching a precious longneck, and yelling his stuff.
Source: We are suffering from a massive empathy deficit and it will have consequences
The United Nations has delivered a blistering indictment of Nauru and Australia’s failure to help children in detention-like conditions, especially those driven to attempt suicide and se
Source: UN slams Australia’s regional processing centres in Nauru
It may sound unpatriotic, but I could not help cheering when the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague brought down its decision last week against Australia. After more than 12 festering years, this finally brings to a head a shameful and shameless exhibition of browbeating and exploiting our newest and poorest neighbour, Timor-Leste. John Howard claimed much of the credit for defending the independence of the nation, and so he should; but his motives were not entirely altruistic.
The number of indigenous people imprisoned in Australia grew by 54.3 percent over the past 15 years, according to a new study which suggests that harsher sentencing practices may be to blame.
Source: Number of imprisoned indigenous people in Australia surged 54% over past 15yrs – report — RT News
Australian children are removed from their families more often than anywhere in the Western world, nearly twice as often as in the US and almost three times the rate in New Zealand, a parliamentary inquiry into child welfare has heard.
Source: Australia branded ‘child-stealing capital of the Western world’
Will history see the country as a pioneer of offshore prisons for asylum seekers, or a pariah for having them?
Source: Australia’s complex refugee debate – Al Jazeera English
Amir never had a birth certificate, or a passport, or anything else that provided proof of who he was until he received his P-plate driver’s licence after being released from immigration detention on a bridging visa while his claim for refugee status was assessed.
An Afghan refugee sent to Nauru by the Australian government remains on the Pacific island nearly three weeks after a doctor advised he needs to be urgently evacuated to treat a potentially fatal heart condition.
Source: Refugee waits for ‘urgent’ evacuation from Nauru three weeks after suspected heart attack
Human rights groups say plan out of step with global expectations and ignores asylum seekers’ suffering
Inside the Brutal Conditions of Australia’s Refugee Prison Islands
Here are the faces our Government is trying to hide from you. Click here to find out why. #BringThemHere
Source: #BringThemHere
Former prime ministers Tony Abbott and John Howard have warned against a treaty with Indigenous Australians, arguing it would be divisive and would fail to win public support.
Source: Tony Abbott and John Howard warn against a treaty with Indigenous Australians
This disgusting crime was not just an attack on Ryder. It was an attack on Aboriginal people in Australia. It – and Martin’s judgement – was an attack on our decency as a people. I am appalled as a human being to live in a country where such a terrible crime can take place, where the media and public intellectuals – with the honourable exception of National Indigenous Times Chris Graham, who gave me the judgement on Friday – have reacted with complete indifference. I am horrified as a Jewish person to live in a country where a member of a small, vulnerable minority can be victimised in such a shocking manner, and the perpetrators can still be described as basically good people.And I am ashamed as an Australian that this is the country I live in.
Australia the only country to receive a rating of ‘very poor’ in a majority of categories in Climate Transparency scorecard
Richard Ackland’s brilliant article today (‘The defence of free speech is limited for the anti-18C brigade‘ in The Guardian) reminds us of one of Pauline Hanson’s more puerile assertions: that “Aboriginal women ate their babies”. Ackland wrote: A book published in her name, Pauline Hanson – The Truth, made a number of ludicrous claims, including…
Source: The pueriles of Pauline – » The Australian Independent Media Network
The Gosford incident, the Nauru files, Don Dale and increasing racial violence are indicative of wider systemic racism, writes John Passant.
Source: Gosford Anglican Church’s invasion by Hansonite thugs: The new racism
One in six Aboriginal persons is gaoled in WA — such compelling evidence is a damning indictment of the brutality of our penal system and failed government policies, says Gerry Georgatos.
Source: Government policy and Indigenous incarceration rates
Two men were attacked by locals armed with an iron bar amid rising tension over the refugees’ presence on the island
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