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The AFP have been asked to investigate Scott Morrison an his staff for an alleged leak by him to the press

Under investigation: Immigration Minister Scott Morrison.

The Australian Federal Police has been asked to investigate Immigration Minister Scott Morrison and his staff for leaking details of a confidential internal security report from Nauru to a journalist.

It was reported in News Corp publications on Friday that internal Transfield security documents from the offshore processing centre in Nauru revealed that it was “probable” that Save the Children staff were encouraging asylum seekers to self harm.

Also reported Mr Morrison had ordered 10 Save the Children staff to be removed from the island under Section 70 of the Crimes Act for alleged misuse of privileged information. This prohibits any person employed by the Commonwealth to send information to a non-government officer.

Sarah Hanson-Young has written to the AFP to say Mr Morrison’s staff may have contravened the same section of the Crimes Act by providing select confidential information to a journalist.

The News Corp article “Truth Overboard” and a subsequent media conference on Friday by Mr Morrison came only days after serious allegations of sexual abuse against women and children were made by asylum seekers on the small island.

Mr Morrison used the news conference to launch an independent investigation into both issues, saying he did not want the public to be “played by mugs with allegations being used as some sort of political tactic”.

But the director of policy and public affairs of Save the Children, Mat Tinkler, said the non-government organisation still had not been provided with the report alleging staff were “coaching and encouraging” asylum seekers to protest and self harm, questioning why the media have been.

“Our staff are on Nauru because they care and deeply concerned when they then have their integrity questioned through the media. They are upset and anxious,” he said.

“As with all of the allegations, we have very little information, we have no information about the report.”

“Information seems to be leaking from the office of the minister and his department at suspiciously convenient times,” Ms Hanson-Young told Fairfax Media. “Disclosing privileged information is a serious breach of the Crimes Act and I’ve asked the AFP to get to the bottom of what’s going on.

“If the minister’s office has been involved in a breach of the Crimes Act, I expect the full force of the law to be applied.”

A spokeswoman for Mr Morrison said: “I will refer you to the AFP.”

But in an interview with Ray Hadley on Tuesday, Mr Morrison described the allegations of coaching asylum seekers to self harm and the sexual abuse of children and adults as “abhorrent”.

To which Mr Hadley replied: “The sexual assault of children in any circumstances is abhorrent but people making false allegations against security men is not quite equally abhorrent but, by gee, it leaves a bitter taste in the mouth.”

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Scott Morrison “facilities on Manus are the equivalent of the mainland.” Why wasn’t his cut attended to? Why weren’t people warned? Morrison stays silent.

Hamid Kehazaei was evacuated to the mainland.

Iranian asylum seeker Hamid Kehazaei died from rare bacterial infection from Manus Island

Iranian asylum seeker Hamid Kehazaei is reported to have died on Manus Island from a rare bacterial infection that has a high mortality rate.

A worker on the island told Fairfax Media Mr Kehazaei died from severe septicemia after having been kept for a week on the island by the International Health and Medical Service after cutting his foot.

The bacteria was found in tropical and subtropical climates in soil and stagnant water mostly during summer, and cases of infection had been reported in Australia, south-east Asia, India, Argentina and south-east United States.

A man who said he was a former Manus Island detainee, Ali Mesbahi, told the ABC they were told to be vigilant about covering up cuts to prevent infections but doctors were not able to assess Mr Kehazaei’s condition because they were booked out.

Leaked documents, obtained by Fairfax Media and reported at the time of Mr Kehazaei’s death, revealed a pattern of medical negligence on the island, including untreated skin infections, tooth decay and tropical diseases.

Mr Morrison said the government would wait until the coroner’s report before issuing a statement about Mr Kehazaei’s death.

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News Oct 4, 2014 Taliban tortures Abbott government deportee Abdul Karim Hekmat. Scott Morrison Sound of Silence. Martin Bowles?

Will we hear anything from Scott Morrison on this? Or will he have the Monthly charged under the new whistle blowers act?

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Oct 4, 2014

Taliban tortures Abbott government deportee

Abdul Karim Hekmat

The first Hazara asylum seeker refouled by the federal government was taken by the Taliban inside a month.

An Afghan police photograph of Zainullah Naseri after his escape from his Taliban captors.

Zainullah Naseri has been in Afghanistan three weeks when the Taliban find him. They stop the car in which he is travelling and find in his pockets his Australian driver’s licence – a memento of the country that on the night of August 26 made him the first Hazara to be forcibly deported back to the country he was fleeing.

The six Taliban also find Zainullah’s iPhone, but he pretends it is not working. They do not believe him. Zainullah is punched and kicked. “They told me they would kill me if I didn’t open it.”

The Taliban bundle him into a car and after 20 minutes’ driving, take him to a mud house ringed by high walls. They beat him with wet rods cut fresh from a tree, demanding he open his phone. Again they threaten to kill him. Zainullah relents and offers his PIN.

Immediately, they are scrolling through pictures: the Opera House, the Harbour Bridge, a video of the new year he recorded in 2014. Speaking in broken Dari, the Taliban tell him, “You from an infidel country.” They mean Australia. “You infidel. We kill you. Why you come to Afghanistan? You a spy.”

He tells them the truth: he was deported after his refugee application was rejected. But they do not believe him. He is laid out on the ground and again is beaten. “I swear to God, I was deported from Australia,” he pleads. “I don’t live there anymore.” The six men do not relent. “They kept bashing me,” Zainullah remembers.

Hellish escape

It was thoughts of his daughter that prompted Zainullah to break out. On the second night in captivity, at 10pm, he heard gunfire in the valley. He saw that the Taliban had gone out to fight and locked the gate. He realised it was an opportunity to escape but his feet were chained together. He groped in the darkness, found a rock, and brought it down onto the chain every time he heard gunfire.

At the back of the house, steps led up to a traditional Afghan squat toilet system, a hole above a chamber below. Having broken his chain, he ran for the toilet and dropped into the excrement. The human waste is collected for fertiliser, accessible with a shovel from outside the house’s wall through a hatchway. Zainullah wriggled out through the hatch. For eight hours, covered in faeces, he walked through darkness and early morning. At some point, exhausted, he heard more gunfire – the whizzing of bullets as they passed his ear.

A video captured by Afghan police shows officers firing on him, suspecting him to be a suicide bomber. A voice calling “help” is heard in the darkness. Moments later, three police speaking in Hazaragi are shown in the video, saying in angry voices, “Who are you?” and “Raise your hands”.

‘Not a real risk’

Mohammad Musa Mahmodi, the executive director of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, said: “It’s totally unacceptable to return a refugee to Afghanistan in this critical moment. It contradicts their [Australian] own law not to deport refugees where they face danger.”

Asked about Zainullah’s case and whether any attempt had been made to assess the ongoing safety of deported asylum seekers, a spokesperson for Immigration Minister Scott Morrison  said: “People who have exhausted all outstanding avenues to remain in Australia and have no lawful basis to remain are expected to depart.”

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Depressed and alone

On the day of his deportation, about 10am, he was transferred to a solitary room where he was asked repeatedly to return to Afghanistan. “A person talked so much, it was as if there was a wasp on my mind.” That night, he was taken to Sydney airport. He and six department escorts boarded the plane from a different door, away from other passengers’ eyes. “I did not know where I was. I did not sleep for two nights. My mind was not working. I just knew that my world is going to end.”

The Afghan embassy in Canberra didn’t issue a passport for Zainullah, disagreeing with his forced removal from Australia. Instead, the Australian government issued a travel document bearing his name and photo, but not his signature. The document was carried by his escorts, who showed it at every checkpoint. He was given a photocopy.

Walking alongside me, he shakes his head. “I ask why the Australian government wasted my time for so long. Made me wonder for three years. Then they dump me here. I have no future now.”

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What we have is of no useful purpose. A frenzy of supposition that has divided us.

 The Cold War, and Vietnam were ASIO’s hay day they lied and made things up then. There is no reason to believe they won’t do it again coupled with the media what chance do we have in this illusion of democracy.

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It should never have come to this

As fact is sorted from fiction about recent incidents involving members of Australia’s Muslim communities. The media is not making any effort to minimise the hysteria that is developing.  To constantly speculate about aspects that have no foundation will cause great harm.

Publishing the wrong photo of the man who attacked two police officers in Melbourne’s South-East by the Fairfax media this week was disgraceful. The ramifications of such an error could have been enormous if any subsequent harm came to the innocent man concerned.

Prior to the 1990s, there was no issue in our country with Muslims. There may well have been an underlying, simmering degree of discontent in certain quarters.

dark sideThere are people among us who continually harbour a suspicion that those who are different and culturally unusual, are somehow a threat to our way of life.  Ignorance breeds contempt. Many in the community are already spooked enough.

A man paying too much attention to his iPad causes Sydney Airport’s Terminal 3 to go into lockdown. A Virgin Airlines low level fly over at the MCG on Saturday, caused an AFP officer to reach for his gun.

What has made our country so tolerant and so successful at peaceful integration in the past has much to do with our egalitarianism, the absence of a class structure and our layback approach.  Up until 1996, immigration was always managed on a bipartisan policy agreement.

It enabled a post-Vietnam War exodus of refugees to seek a safe haven here with not so much as a whimper of opposition. They came in their thousands and in a matter of a few years had established themselves as hard working, diligent members of society. It was just what we needed.Our already broad cosmopolitan make-up was richer for the experience.

hansonPrior to the 1996 election Pauline Hanson tapped a racial intensity of feeling in the electorate and won her seat even after the Liberal party disowned her.

When her One Nation Party had won over a large chunk of Liberal voters in a Queensland State election, that was the beginning of the end of immigration bipartisanship in Australian politics.

Just 5 years later, John Howard seized an opportunity to win an election with the Tampa incident by appealing to the same racially minded mentality. From that point on, to our national shame, the issue of immigration and management of refugees has become a game of political football.

But it wasn’t Asians that bore the brunt of this new degenerate attitude. Greatly assisted by our engagement in a falsely contrived war in Iraq, the fear of Muslims became a dark, festering disease covertly encouraged by certain sections of the media. Its nakedly, aggressive manner is a blight on a once welcoming nation and is covertly urged on by vested political interests.

morrisonIn 2011, Scott Morrison, as Opposition Immigration spokesman, “urged the shadow cabinet to capitalise on the electorate’s growing concerns about “Muslim immigration”, “Muslims in Australia” and the “inability” of Muslim migrants to integrate.”

And, we know the mindset of Scott Morrison. We also know the mindset of Cory Bernadi. Who else in government thinks this way? By their actions, or lack of them, we will know them. How can we possibly begin to reverse this attitude when government members are so vocal?

Democracy does not serve us well when elected representatives act in a manner that creates division. It is counterproductive. It may suit the interests of some but in the long term, everyone pays.

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Trade for Aid is Australia’s Slogan. Morrison has out done himself. “Where the bloody hell are you?” “What the bloody hell are you doing here”

Foreign Aid inducement plus costs will abrogate responsibility.

It will be  a silenent “operational matter”

Cambodia is a refuge for political expediency

Date
September 27, 2014

 

Editorial

The Abbott government’s squalid deal with one of Asia’s poorest and most corrupt nations reflects badly on Australia, harms our regional ambition to be seen as a friendly neighbour and abdicates our moral responsibility to the vulnerable.

‘Their standards are not our standards – and it is very wrong of Australia to send people who have come into our care, however briefly, to a country whose standards are so different from ours.”

How two faced can you get? This was Tony Abbott’s withering critique, from opposition in 2011, of Labor’s ill-judged people-swap with Malaysia. The Coalition at the time refused to support the Malaysian deal, arguing – as did The Age – that the rights of asylum seekers could not be protected. Those very same doubts apply in at least equal measure to Cambodia.

Immigration Minister Scott Morrison, having initially refused to acknowledge the negotiations with Cambodia with his regrettable contempt for public information, has now made a risible attempt to dress up this deal as a sign of that country’s progress.  But, politically, the country is moribund. Prime Minister Hun Sen has preserved his grip on power for more than two decades by intimidation and repression.

Australia to strike a deal that promises Cambodia an additional $40 million in aid over four years, to accept refugees whom Australia itself has refused to accept, smacks of exploitation.

Offshore processing of refugee applicants in Nauru and Papua New Guinea is an attempt to evade Australia’s international obligations; now, by paying to send refugees to Cambodia, the government is similarly attempting to buy its way out of the responsibility to resettle people found to be fleeing persecution.

It is extraordinary that, beyond the additional $40 million in aid, the government has entered into this deal with an apparent blank cheque, to pay for the costs of providing for refugees in Cambodia. Mr Morrison has conceded the cost is unknown.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/comment/the-age-editorial/cambodia-is-a-refuge-for-political-expediency-20140926-3gqby.html#ixzz3ETRZiuU3

There is no economic argument for what Morrison is doing. If 20,000 adult refugees were settled to become tax payers of this country at the lowest level $10-15k it would bring the government approx $300 mill or over $2 billion income over the next 5 years and that’s only one group of 20,000. What’s our reputation as a global citizen worth. Nothing it would appear to this government. Immigration,Climate,Security,Welfare,Education have become the most regressive policies in the Western World.

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Australia’s shame 40k refugees at $25000 could be working and paying tax before a year is up. $500K Tax = Abbott’s WAR

Cambodia refugee deal: Protests outside Australian embassy in Phnom Penh as Scott Morrison signs agreement

By South-East Asia correspondent Samantha Hawley, staff

Updated 22 minutes agoFri 26 Sep 2014, 8:05pm

Protest outside Australian Embassy in Phnom Penh Photo: A protester shouts at police outside the Australian embassy in Phnom Penh (Getty Images: Omar Havana)
Related Story: Cambodia refugee deal shameful: rights group
Map: Cambodia

As few as four or five people could be sent from Nauru to Cambodia under a deal signed by Immigration Minister Scott Morrison in Phnom Penh today.The agreement will offer settlement of refugees on a voluntary basis, with the number of refugees accepted to be determined by Cambodia.

“In order to ensure an effective and positive implementation of the resettlement program, Cambodia and Australia have agreed to undertake an initial trial arrangement with a small group of refugees which will be followed by further resettlement in accordance with Cambodia’s capacity,” the statement said.

Australia will pay Cambodia $40 million in additional aid and also “bear the direct costs of the arrangement, including initial support to refugees, and relevant capacity building for Cambodia”.

Cambodians say country unable to look after its own

Riot police kept watch outside the Australian embassy in Phnom Penh as Cambodians protested against the agreement.Around 100 protesters gathered outside the embassy to protest against the deal, saying the poverty-stricken country was unable to look after its own people and should not be taking in Australia’s refugees.Refugee advocates said they feared locals would be upset if refugees were given money and were perceived to be better off than others in the community.

Cambodia: Fact File

  • Cambodia has a population of around 15 million
  • More than 96 per cent of them speak Khmer
  • It is a democracy under a constitutional monarchy. King Norodom Sihamoni currently reigns, while Hun Sen is prime minister
  • Suffered civil war under the Khmer Rouge, who sent 1.7 million Cambodians to their deaths in the ‘Killing Fields’
  • 20 per cent of the population lives below the poverty line
  • The country remains one of the poorest in Asia
  • 37 per cent of children under the age of 5 suffer from chronic malnutrition
  • More than half of the population is less than 25 years old
  • More than half of the government’s money comes from international aid

There are also fears that the Australian funding will end up in the pockets of corrupt officials.

Mr Morrison earlier said there would be no cap placed on the number of refugees Cambodia would accept, but said it would only take those who voluntarily chose to go there.Human rights and aid groups working on the ground in Cambodia called the deal “shameful”, and said the country had a terrible record of protecting refugees.”It is shameful but it is also illegal,” said Virak Ou, president of Cambodia’s Centre for Human Rights.

 Video: Cambodians protest against refugee resettlement deal (ABC News)

“The Australian Government has an obligation to protect refugees and sending them Cambodia’s way is not how a responsible country protects refugees.”Cambodia is in no position to take refugees. We are a poor country, the health system is sub-par at most. I don’t know how the refugees will send their kids to school.”The Cambodian school system is rife with corruption … the access to education here is quite bad. So I don’t know what the Australian Government is thinking nor what they expect from

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Fears for refugee children in Morrison’s Cambodia deal . Resettlement or Rendition the Australian way …..SSSSSHHHH

The criticism comes despite Cambodia and Australia keeping details of the agreement secret.

"We have picked out the poorest and worst governed states in Asia to fend off these unfortunate people": Alastair Nicholson.Immigration Minister Scott Morrison.

An alliance of international aid, children’s and human rights and refugee organisations said grave fears were held for the welfare of the refugee families,  especially children.

The alliance includes UNICEF Australia, Save the Children, Plan International Australia, World Vision, Amnesty International, the Refugee Council of Australia, International Detention Coalition and Children’s Rights International

Former Chief Justice of the Family Court, Alastair Nicholson, the spokesman for the alliance, said Cambodian non-government organisations have advised the plan would overwhelm an already struggling welfare sector and exploit one of the poorest nations in south-east Asia.

“It’s reprehensible,” he told Fairfax Media. “We have picked out the poorest and worst governed states in Asia to fend off these unfortunate people,” he said. “It’s not regional resettlement, it’s just suiting Australian convenience with a degree of arrogance that I find is appalling.

“The exploitation of children is really troublesome,” Mr Nicholson said.

Human Rights Watch said the agreement does not meet Australia’s commitment to send refugees to a “safe third country” and will undermine refugee protection in the region.”Australia’s deal with Cambodia will send people to a country that has a terrible record for protecting refugees and is mired in serious human rights abuses,” said Elaine Pearson, Australia director at Human Rights Watch.

The deal is believed to involve Australia sending up to 1000 refugees to Cambodia, mostly from Nauru. This would represent a 1075 per cent increase of refugees in the country.

There was speculation that Canberra would, in return, provide more than $40 million in additional aid to the country, which is rated among the world’s most corrupt nations.Mr Morrison confirmed that figure on Friday, and told ABC radio that those costs could increase

“We have clear costs on the ADA payments and that’s $40 million over four years,” the Minister said.

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Details won’t be made public. Going Going Gone to corrupt 3rd world country Cambodia. We never promised you a rose garden
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Scott Morrison will sign a refugee resettlement deal with Cambodia

  • 2 hours ago September 24, 2014 6:12PM

Govt confirms Cambodia refugee agreement

IMMIGRATION Minister Scott Morrison will sign a controversial refugee resettlement deal with Cambodia at the end of the week.

But details of the agreement won’t be made public until after it is signed off in Phnom Penh on Friday.

The Abbott government only confirmed a deal had been reached after the Cambodian government announced Mr Morrison’s impending visit.

Under the agreement, asylum seekers who arrive in Australia by boat and are found to be refugees after being processed offshore on Nauru or Manus Island in Papua New Guinea could voluntary choose to be resettled in Cambodia.

They will have freedom of movement and work rights.

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Minister for Immigration and Border Protection Scott Morrison, during Question Time in the House of Representatives. Picture: Gary Ramage Source: News Corp Australia

Mr Morrison, earlier in September, said the arrangement was not about “just putting people somewhere and looking the other way”. Labor is demanding the government release details of the agreement.

It was “completely unacceptable” that Australians were being forced to rely on Cambodia for news of an agreement the government was preparing to sign, opposition immigration spokesman Richard Marles said.

He asked how Cambodia was an acceptable location to send refugees when the coalition rejected a Gillard government proposal to resettle asylum seekers in Malaysia.

The government previously has defended the plan by saying Cambodia is a signatory to the UN Convention on Human Rights. However, the Greens and refugee groups have cited the country’s human rights record and poor economic status.

The Greens have vowed to vote against the “dirty deal” if and when the government seeks parliamentary approval for the agreement. As one of the poorest nations in the world, Cambodia struggled to look after its own citizens, let alone the refugees Australia wants to “dump” there, Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said.

Women and young girls especially would be at extreme risk of abuse and exploitation.

“The moment those young girls walk off a plane in Cambodia, their lives will be at risk,” she told reporters.

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UNHRC Reprimands, High Court Losses, Back flip on TPV’s : Morrison Must Be Feeling God Has Let Him Down

High Court defeat for Scott Morrison over temporary visa for refugees

Sarah Whyte

Immigration correspondent

Court loss: Immigration Minister Scott Morrison. Court loss: Immigration Minister Scott Morrison. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

Immigration Minister Scott Morrison has suffered another defeat in the High Court after his attempt to grant a stateless refugee a temporary visa was ruled invalid.

The man, a Rohingya Muslim from Myanmar, arrived on Christmas Island in 2011 and tried to seek asylum in Australia. For two years the man, who was found to be a genuine refugee, was kept in detention as the Immigration Department assessed his eligibility for a permanent visa.

But when Mr Morrison released the refugee early this year he only offered him a “temporary safe haven” visa, which has similar conditions as a temporary protection visa (TPV) and does not allow permanent residency in Australia. The decision, which was made by the minister without the man’s consent, was ruled as “invalid” by the High Court on Thursday.

The blow comes as Mr Morrison has proposed offering TPVs for people who arrive by boat after July 19 and before December 31 last year, if the Senate allows the visa.

Until now, any asylum seeker who arrived in this five month period was subject to offshore processing centres in Nauru and Manus Island.

Mr Morrison said the proposed change was being presented to the crossbenchers in the Senate – including Clive Palmer’s party – who have the numbers to help the Coalition reinstate TPVs.

If granted, the TPVs would be offered to the 30,000 asylum seekers who arrived under the Labor government and to any asylum seekers who arrived last year and have not yet been sent to be processed offshore.

“We have to work with the Senate that we have and if we have to make some changes to get TPVs in then that’s what we are talking to them about,” he told ABC Radio.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott also defended the proposed changes, saying TPVs had always been part of the government’s policy.

“I want to make it crystal clear that no-one who comes to Australia illegally by boat is ever going to get permanent residency of our country. That is an absolute commitment by this government,” he told reporters in Tasmania.

“Temporary protection visas were our policy and the thing about temporary protection visas is they’re temporary. They’re temporary. When the protection is no longer needed, the visa is not there, and you go back to your home country.”

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Arrogance Reigns Supreme.

 

The man makes it up as he goes along.” I can abuse my wife because I was nice to my dog last week.”

Scott Morrison’s arrogance is an affront to the United Nations Human Rights Council on which we are seeking to be a member. To suggest Australia’s humanitarian response in Iraq somehow excuses it from responsibility to asylum seekers held in detention is the height of disregard for any notion of Human Rights. Since when are human right’s an exchangeable commodity? The man’s a liability to the long standing reputation of this country.

I reject the allegations made by the High Commissioner and would be pleased to meet to discuss these matters as I do on a regular basis with the UNHCR.“The most flagrant abuse of human rights I am aware of is the beheading and crucifying of people in Syria and Iraq where Australia is seeking to relieve the humanitarian crisis.”

The new high commissioner Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein says:

Australia’s policy of offshore processing and its interception and turning back of vessels “is leading to a chain of human rights violations”.

These include “arbitrary detention and possible torture following return to home countries”.

“It could also lead to the resettlement of migrant in countries that are not adequately equipped”, a reference to plans to send to Cambodia refugees from Nauru.

The High Commissioner’s comments feed into the current debate about the medical conditions on Manus Island, which have been again defended by Immigration Minister Scott Morrison but are strongly criticised by medical experts.

New Matilda last week reported Richard Kidd, a co-founder Doctors for Refugees, predicting that “we’re going to see other very serious bad health outcomes and probably more deaths”.

Kidd said this was why the Australian Medical Association had been strongly advocating for an independent medical authority to oversee the provision of healthcare services to asylum seekers and refugees.

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Scott Morrison insists Manus is up to standard

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-06/manus-island-whistleblower-describes-filthy-conditions/5725042

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AUSTRALIA IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS ANY TIME ANYWHERE

 

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Very few wars win votes.

And Abbott is now proposing we wage war on those Iraqis we ‘trained’ to defend democracy and are now attacking it ‒ with beheadings and crucifixions and forced conversions ‒ and an imperial vision so barbarous al-Qaeda wants no part of it.

Many Australians ‘get’ this and think we should never have gone there in the first place, and are appalled we are going back.

And into a war with Russia to boot — wow. The fact is Bishop and Abbott are doing a ‘war dance’ while waiting for the phone to ring.

But going to war with crucifying maniacs, and going to war with the Russians, is another.

And it will destroy him, soon or late, as it did so many before him.

‘Never march on Moscow’ has been a commonplace of war theory since Napoleon’s time. Hitler did, and it destroyed him. Abbott is now proposing we do this as winter approaches and run up the Australian flag on the onion domes by Christmas Day.

Fighters to go, We send them anywhere

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66,84.23,25 Scott Morrison and Martin Bowles leaders of Australia’s ISIS

Only a Balaclava of a difference

Life expectancy in PNG is 66 and in Australia 84. Scott Morrison and Martin Bowles have insured two healthy young men Reza and Hamid one 23 and the other 24 would never achieve those expectancies of life. On battered to death the other allowed to contract blood poisoning. In Australia’s camp of death on Manus island PNG.

These deaths are  warnings to the world no less than the  beheading  of the two journalists by ISIS in Syria and Iraq. One a threat to the USA and it’s allies the other a clear message that if you don’t stop taking boats to Australia this too can happen to you. The deaths on Manus have gained as much publicity as  the beheading . All deaths tell the story that if you are captured you will be imprisoned and will be administered harsh treatment  no matter who you are and no matter world opinion or world conventions. As far as the world is concerned we don’t give a f**k give it a go and see.

Any inquiries into deaths will be legally appealed. The appeals fully paid for and shut down by the Australian government.

No matter their  denials Morrison and Bowles  the parallels are clearly the same. Manus is the clear  message to asylum seekers that death and mental illness are likely possibilities if you attempt to come to Australia we will capture you.  Scott Morrison and Martin Bowles are responsible for everything that occurs at Manus. Just as Cardinal Pell’s trucking company defense fell on deaf ears it’s of no use to them either.

RIP Reza Barati and Hamid Kehazaei

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Scott Morrison Listen to Someone Who Knows the Law, Child Rights, Assylum and Cambodia. Don’t Just Abrogate Our responsibility

 

Alister Nicholson was Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia. He is now a professor of law at Melbourne University and the founder and patron of Child Rights International. He knows Cambodia very well as CRI is assisting the Cambodian government in the establishment of  a Cambodian Children’s Court from ground zero. In the following interview  he discusses Scott Morrison’s efforts to send 1000 Asylum Seekers from Nauru to Cambodia abrogating Australia’s duty of care for purely political gain at a $40 mill cost +++

 

http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2014/s4069804.htm

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BANAL EVIL, SCOTT MORRISON "JUST DOING MY JOB" EICHMAN"S DEFENSE

 

 ADOLF EICHMAN’S DEFENSE “JUST DOING MY JOB “

Scott Morrison the Minister for NO INFORMATION says AHRC allegations of self harm and sick children on Christmas Island are “sensational”. Yet his department head confirmed 128 recorded instances in the past 15 months. Martin Bowles said improvements had been made. I’m sure those improvements are more about information suppression and ridiculing attending doctors should they be found to reveal restricted information. International Health and Medical Services were explicitly told to withdraw figures showing children were suffering high levels of mental illness by the Immigration Department.
Scott Morrison who consistently refused to attend the AHRC inquiry is quite open to run it down as he is the  report by nine major Christian Churches which labelled the detention of unaccompanied children in processing camps and centres as state sponsored child abuse.The church task force report contains remarkably strong language invoking the holocaust in its critique of Australia’s detention policy.
The Immigration Minister’s office says Scott Morrison hasn’t seen the final report but says claims of state-sponsored child abuse are shocking and offensive and categorically rejected by him. Morrison is embodiment of ministerial evil”  We know that one doesn’t need to be fanatical, sadistic, or mentally ill to persecute unaccompanied children and asylum seekers in detention. It is enough to be a loyal follower eager to do one’s duty for an inhumane,insane government  detention policy. Wasn’t this Adolf Eichman’s defense?

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FREEDOM JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE

Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose  Bob Dylan’s words  ring true for asylum seekers getting on leaky boats. “Freedom is the ability to walk a mile in another persons shoes ” better expresses what we as Australians need to do when dealing with those we so easily brand  illegal arrivals.  It’s our ability to empathize with them and each other as men, women, children, gays, black, white,  yellow or poor that sets us all free. It takes us away from the days of  poofter bashing and the antiquated laws that we thought once served us.  Empathy that freed us from misconceptions held and will always to do so.
Abbott   has degraded this country trashed it  in the eyes of the world because of paranoid and intolerant reaction to these refugee asylum seekers. People who risk body and soul when they get in those leaky little boats with kids. They know they can’t swim, they know the boats are crap and yet they are prepared to  risk all, that’s desperation.
 The cry  for Assimilation and the end to Multiculturalism is simply intolerance by a few. 50% of Australia is connected to non Anglo/Saxon immigration. Difference is the natural order of things not uniformity. Bendigo & and Shepparton have successfully integrated muslim communities outsiders have stirred up trouble. These towns accepted change did not resist it for their betterment. It should be encouraged. Alan Jones’s racist rants on 2GB fueled the Cronulla  riots. He was not a local nor are those stirring up trouble in Bendigo. It’s why we need section 18C  of the Racial Discrimination Act to remain in tact. Jones  should have been charged for racial vilification at the time. Brandis’s  moronic suggestion” bigots should be able to be bigots” is a promise made to Andrew Bolt on behalf of  Tony Abbott for his support. Section 18c is not there to stop people thinking but doing things that vilify the otherwise powerless.
What are the values we need to Assimilate to? Adam and Eve and not Adam and Steve.  Christianity  not Islam? Are the values and culture of indigenous Australia to be excluded.? Aboriginies were good enough to don uniforms and fight and die for this country but when they got home we turned our backs on them. They could die but not vote. If they complained against the bigotry Bolt’s song  like Henry Higgins demands “why can’t they be more like us” You can’t force people into “little boxes, little boxes”, Multiculturalism  is what made America and Australia post ww2 and we flourished because of it.  We are Greek Turkish and Lebanese  Australians. We are not “New Australians ”  such a dumb term coined with Assimilation was the goal. Have you heard of a New Americans or New Canadians?
 Win at any cost, party politics turned refugees into  a political handball it drew out the worst jingoistic attitudes in us but it doesn’t mean they are right. What was wrong is  our politicans backed them selves into a compassionless corner and wont admit they were wrong . Government might be about winning  but it’s also the ability to say ” sorry we have  made a mistake let’s fix it “.
 Razor wire locks people in but it also defines us. As do our jails which are bursting at the seams with  the mentally and physically ill. The young who shouldn’t be there and are now serving a  apprenticeship in crime.
 It’s not a far  stretch to call our current government’s actions Nazis and their apologists the Murdoch press and 2GB the equivalent of Goebbels. Like the Jews the asylum seekers arriving by boat have been publically demonized, maligned  and for what seeking refuge.  Mothers have singled out as cunning  self harmers not worthy of any attention or sympathy because their actions are merely to garner attention and sympathy.  What else have they got to get somebody to listen? What kind of grubs are these media dogs Bolt, Jones and the army of maggots called spin doctors who work for the PM  and Immigration Departments.  120 scanning social media and using it to misinform  deflect, scaremonger or just withold information. It’s to his credit Alister Nicholson retired chief justice of the Family Court has stood up and  said ” The Abbott government has adopted another practice of totalitarian regimes of shrouding its activities in secrecy and applying a false patina of military necessity. What they are doing is now hidden from the public and the media. Goebbels, Stalin and similar types would be proud.”
The current policy $$$  for voluntary return hides the fact that asylum seeker treatment is so brutal that  they have no real choice or options. The Abbott Coalition pays others to do this work under strict secrecy. It doesn’t always work and the news get’s out such as the murder of a detainee and the injury of 69 others.  Scott Morrisson then deflects and would have us believe it’s not our problem or his fault. It’s been contracted out to PNG Nauru G4S etc mercenaries. This government takes them into custody then transfers them abrogating any responsibility.  Scott Morrison said “As the individuals and the centre are located in PNG territory, it has primary responsibility. However spoken like a politician it’s a lie  & the president of the Human Rights Commission  Gillian Triggs clearly stated  “Bottom line is they definitely are responsible and the reasons for that is firstly, Australia has the primary responsibility and secondly, we cannot abdicate that responsibility by sending them off to a third country,” “Also as practical matter, there is a great deal of evidence to suggest that Australia is in effect in control of activities and the management of these detention centers, so frankly from the point of view of international legal standards and international law there’s very little doubt that Australia remains responsible.”
Scott Morrison there has been a murder and 69 people injured in one day on your watch. Treatment has caused detainees to suffer irreparable mental health issues.  All done in secret and common practice in totalitarian states. Furthermore you blame the victims to justify your actions.
You can’t rewrite this history it belongs to you and Tony Abbott.

Australia's Shame, Immigration, Scott Morrison, Tony Abbott

ABBOTT’S THE PILLOCK OF ASIA

 

Tony Abbott’s daughter went out on the town. Walking home she came across an asylum seeker who had swum ashore and was wet and cold. So she took the poor girl home. She gave her a meal, dry clothes and a warm bed for the night. Next morning her dad asked how her night went and she quite proudly told him what she had done. She was suprised at her father’s angry reaction.
“You stupid  naieve do gooder Frances you should have rung Scott don’t you realize you have just ruined the rest of that bastard’s life. Give me the phone…….Hello security!! “
Meanwhile upstairs  young girl lay snuggled  dreaming she was finally safe and away from all the danger.

Abbott and Morrison are spending more money on their war on asylum seekers than on any inland war on terror. They are actively punishing and demonizing desperate people for being out of line, not in queue. Firstly queuing is a very British thing and not a universal phenomenon particularly when your desparate.
The British taught Indians to queue but with a few variations. Unaccompanied women with or without children can jump the queue as can unaccompanied children. The disabled and handicapped can avoid  lining up. However Mr Abbott queuing is not the generally accepted  custom in either Asia,Africa,or the Middle East. So put women and children behind razor wire for not queuing is bad enough  but to hide that activity under a veil of misinformation and secrecy is barbaric.
If Abbott and Morrisson justification is that it disadvantages those in line  why haven’t we heard a hue & cry from them? Why haven’t they pointed out the people smugglers  those organizing these boats.  Asylum seekers in the majority don’t seem to see Abbott’s illegals in the same light as Abbott.
The argument that they are mostly economic refugees and not genuine would I assume give genuine refugees more grounds to voice worldwide complaint but we only hear it from our leader? If he is right wouldn’t the UN be patting Abbott on the back instead of reminding him of the human rights agreements he’s breaking? The only hue & cry we do hear is from the village idiots  Andrew Bolt & Alan Jones and the other load scum at the Murdoch press &  2GB. They are Abbott’s media commentators and is rarely found interviewed outside their safe circle.
The prime minister has turned our politics to worse than raw sewage it’s now as engaging as medical waste. He is not interested in foriegn affairs because people outside  don’t vote. Mind you he is not ashamed to take our  internal( blame it on Labour) politics to  the world when delivering  speeches even when the occassion doesn’t warrant it.  World leaders show their countries as a united front on the world stage but not our Tony.  As far as he is concerned we could re-instate the White Australia Policy and our neighbours would continue to trade and respect us. “China respects strength” and afterall we are ” the pivot of Asia “.
Abbott our more of a divot than pivot Abbott a clod or is that the “pillock of Asia”

Andrew Bolt, Australia, Newscorp Asylum, Scott Morrison

ABBOTT,MORRISON OUR TWO LIFE GUARD’S SOLUTION TO STOP PEOPLE DROWNING : RAZOR WIRE


Lebanon 4mill hosts 1,000,000 refugees
Jordan 600,000
Turkey 800,000
Do they kill or send the infidels among them back? Mr Bolt?
The world media has headlined Australia as being the most shameful place on the planet in the way it treats it’s refugees. Bolt & Jones like Goebbels praise the strategy for it’s humanity and the world’s lack of vision.
It won’t be long before traveling Aussie will hide the Boxing Kangas, Koalas, flags and other Aussie icons in shame. For now it was great to see a young Malaysian Greek Australian on center court at Wimbeldon. It spoke heaps about who we are
Tony Abbott and Scott Morrison are fixing that message.They encourage suicide & murder of people behind razor wire saying they are saving them from drowning. It’s akin to Eichman’s Final Solution… What refugees asks Morrison? They defend and stand side by side with the Sri Lankan government reviled internationally for it’s human rights abuses. Morrison could be negotiating with Nth Korea as far as we are concerned. We’d never know.

Andrew Robb, Australian Economy Deregulation, Kevin Andrews, Scott Morrison, Tony Abbot

SPEED UP THE SLOW MARKET HELLO WASN’T PRE-GFC FAST ENOUGH?

 
This governments cry for deregulation of the financial industry is going to achieve exactly what multi nationals want and what 1%ers would like a gold rush of opportunity but only for those at the top.
Abbott’s coalition are either fully aware of what they are doing or under the misguided belief in a trickle down effect that will benefit all. Bullshit there’s more generosity at the the middle and lower end of the social hierachy than there is at the top.

 Immigration regulations have  been increased to such that assylum seekers have been disappeared they no longer exist.  Scott Morrison has no information on anything, his dept  employs 90 spin doctors, media managers who don’t only watch his words but scrutinizes ours throughout the social media. Comic to the extreme we have a bigger  Immigration Dept doing more things about nothing. Transparacy is not required because there’s nothing to be transparant about, just ask a spin doc…..er….spokesperson.
Deregulation however is only one side of the coin. More regulation is the other. Kevin Andrews wants more Welfare. He wants want’s to micro-manage what individual recipients  recieve  and what they can and can’t spend  with their payments . The very nature of this  magnified  state control starts to smack of  the most extreme facism.
 Corporate trustees are given virtual carte blanche to administer, invest and disburse the money in charitable trusts, and critics say they charge whatever fees they deem appropriate. Yet as calls mount for greater regulation of the sector, the government is moving to axe the watchdog. Sarah Dingle
 Yep the Charity Watchdog is to be axed and the industry to self regulate. Money left in wills for charities is a ‘rivers of gold’ situation for corporate trustees, who are entitled to administer the money in perpetuity. Corporate trustees administering a fund for the Childrens Hospital have diminished it’s capital over the past 5 years by about $20mill  in those 5 years the Corporate trustee took $2mill in fees. By comparison, the Children Hospital’s own self managed foundation managed to grow it’s  capital by 10 per cent and distribute $80 million to the hospital in the same timeframe. 90% of these corporate trustees have $3.5bill are under the sole management.  Currently they can be the trustee, the investor, the administrator and the disburser of the funds, and they don’t have to show that all those charges are fair and reasonable,’’Rivers of Gold”. Andrews wants to axe the ACNC and handball the fee gouging issues to the States. Charities Commissioner Susan Pascoe says State regulation is non existing. In WA there is no cap on fees that can be charged. These Corporate trustees apply the same fee structures to the trusts of disabled, mentally impaired  across the board. Andrews isn’t saving money he’s handing the problem over to the states were no protective structures exist.

 The Dept of Trade and Froreign Affaire is in secret  TPP trade negotiation revealed by WIKI leaks which demand deregulation to open up the freer market  for Multinational corporations . Yes but not for  the interests of all of us. Australian bank regulations which saved us from the GFC pain that Europe & the US experienced  are going to be loosened up. It was deregulation of the financial markets that caused the GFC in the first place. This government wants to remove our safety net & say we are “open for business”. The flip side is that we the consumers are to be effected by the new TPP agreements . We will pay more for drugs and medicines, movies, computer games and software, IT  and be placed under surveillance as part of a US-led crackdown on internet piracy.  ”One could see the TPP as a Christmas wish list for major corporations, enriching them and their investors but of no  help those in the middle, let alone those at the bottom. Goods will become more expensive, pharmaceuticals, IT, software, entertainment, food packaging, among other things will go up. The belief that economic growth is the key to benefit for all is a myth. This governments ear is only open to those guaranteed to win putting the bulk of the population at greater risk. Those 10% at the top will make more money and be  overcompensated for the price rises and the other 90%  gouged.

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