Call for âcruelâ detention to end as refugees released More than 60 refugees being held at a hotel have been granted temporary visas after spending seven years in detention.
Politics by Grace McKinnon and Josh Fagan 20th Jan 2021 7:59 PM
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Subscriber only More than 60 refugees held at the Park Hotel in Carlton have been granted temporary bridging visas, the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) said. The centre announced 26 refugees received six-month visas on Wednesday and another 34 would be released from the hotel on Thursday. This comes after the men were brought to Australia from offshore detention on Manus Island in 2019 to seek medical care under the now-repealed medevac legislation.
City of Melbourne threatens to fine protesters for excessive noise
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The City of Melbourne has been threatening to fine people protesting against the treatment of refugees and asylum seekers under bylaws designed to stop buskers disturbing the peace.
Victoria Police officers have worked with council officers to penalise the protesters under a little-known bylaw that restricts the use of excessive noise that is capable of interfering with the reasonable comfort of any person who may be in the vicinity of [a] public place .
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by Binoy Kampmark / December 15th, 2020
Governments that issue press releases about the abuse of human rights tend to avoid close gazes at the mirror. Doing so would be telling. In the case of Australia, its record on dealing with refugees is both abysmal and cruel. It tends to be easier to point the finger at national security laws in Hong Kong and concentration camps in Xinjiang. Wickedness is always easily found afar.
Australia’s own concentration camp system hums along, inflicting suffering upon asylum seekers and refugees who fled suffering by keeping them in a state of calculated limbo. Its brutality has been so normalised, it barely warrants mention in Australia’s sterile news outlets. In penitence, the country’s literary establishment pays homage to the victims, such as the Kurdish Iranian writer Behrouz Boochani. Garlands and literary prizes have done nothing to shift the vicious centre in Canberra. Boat arrivals remain political slurry and are treate
Published December 14, 2020
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A last-minute protest has popped up outside the Mantra Bell City Hotel in Melbourne to stop around 60 asylum seekers inside the building from being transferred to yet another form of detention.
The 60-odd men were initially taken to the hotel from Manus Island 16 months ago to receive medical treatment under the now-repealed medevac law.