Australia is a signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention. Rudd’s actions are not only lawless actions but weaken international refugee law and the human rights movements that buttress it. In 1992, the Labor government of Paul Keating was the first to impose illegal mandatory detention of refugees, including children. Since then, Australian governments have waged a propaganda war on refugees, in alliance with a media dominated by Rupert Murdoch. Vast, sparsely-populated Australia demands “protection” from refugees and asylum seekers of whom fewer than 15,000 were settled last year — 0.99 per cent of the world’s total.
Posted on: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 18:49:04 +0000
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