Showing posts with label immigration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label immigration. Show all posts
Friday, May 25, 2018

CULTURE WARS: Sorry, Malcolm, but multicultural Australia is not ‘united, strong, successful’

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And guess whose fault that is? And so, on Harmony Day, our erstwhile PM launched a document entitled Multicultural Australia: Unit...
Friday, December 15, 2017

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS: Why George Christensen might make a great immigration minister

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Barnaby Joyce reckons George Christensen needs to be given a portfolio. Would Immigration be a good fit? Have you head the rumour? Appar...
Saturday, March 09, 2013

POLITICS: Refugee rhetoric that makes no sense

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I really would hate to be John Nguyen. This young professional is the Liberal candidate for the Victorian seat of Chisholm . Not that there...
Saturday, February 26, 2011

COMMENT: Jeremy Sammut tries to be a smartie on M&M's

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Jeremy Sammut is a research fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies . He has a PhD in Australian social and political history from M...
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Thursday, June 10, 2010

OPINION: The Gift of Right Wing Humour

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The following article was first published in NewMatilda on 30 April 2009. _______________________ Political satirist PJ O'Rourke was wa...
Sunday, June 06, 2010

COMMENT: Ayaan Hirsi Magaan and the Enlightenment

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Ayaan Hirsi Magaan, the Dutch-Somali evangelical athiest and neo-conservative, has just published a second instalment of her memoirs entitle...
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Saturday, May 29, 2010

OPINION: Refugee Hysteria Suggests Aussies Have Forgotten Their Own Ancestors

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YOU can always tell when Australia has entered election mode. Suddenly the really big issues come to the fore - issues that affect the econo...
Friday, May 28, 2010

OPINION: Rising trend of fearmongering on refugees and passports ...

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Coalition rhetoric now appears to slipping back to the worst practices of the Howard era, IRFAN YUSUF writes ... Tony Abbott wasn’t exactly ...
Sunday, April 11, 2010

AFGHANISTAN: Rudd government celebrates the changed circumstances ...

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Australia's Immigration Minister has unilaterally announced that the situation in Afghanistan is changing for the better. Wonderful. N...
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Monday, January 25, 2010

COMMENT: Tony Abbott on immigration ...

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Apparently Tony Abbott is playing the race card . Or is he? AN IMMIGRATION speech by the Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, has been criticised...
Tuesday, October 27, 2009

FILM: Amreeka

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STOP PRESS!!: THIS MOVIE IS SCREENING FRIDAY 30 OCTOBER 2009 AT THE PALESTINIAN FILM FESTIVAL IN SYDNEY. FOR OTHER SESSIONS IN MELBOURNE AND...
Monday, May 25, 2009

GREECE: Immigration crisis ...

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Though some far-Right bloggers treat recent Greek riots as the result of certain groups behaving badly, the situation is far more complex. ...
Saturday, April 25, 2009

COMMENT: Border Insecurity ...

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The letters section of the Daily Telegraph of Friday 24 April 2009 has two typical examples of uninformed hysteria concerning the issue of ...
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Monday, February 23, 2009

CRIKEY: Mafia scandal should make O'Farrell and Turnbull very nervous ...

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Well it’s been a bad few weeks for the Federal Parliamentary Liberal Party. Brendan Nelson decided to POQ, his parting message to many of hi...
Thursday, October 16, 2008

CRIKEY: Nick Griffin: to visa or not to visa ...

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It’s hard to know how best to approach hate-mongers seeking to grace our shores. For years, genuine free speech (as opposed to hate-speec...
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008

COMMENT: Andrew Bolt accuses Jews and Vietnamese of living in ghettos ...

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Herald-Sun blogger Andrew Bolt has claimed that ... ... Australia risks becoming not “home” but a host community. Under a blog post en...
Wednesday, September 24, 2008

CRIKEY: Vanstone's underworld ministerial discretion ...

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Well, there's ministerial discretion. And then there's ministerial discretion. Discretion was used by former Immigration Minist...
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Monday, July 21, 2008

CRIKEY: Kevin Andrews' immigration crusade

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Since the end of the White Australia Policy, there has been bipartisan support for a non-discriminatory immigration policy. But with the How...