Showing posts with label refugees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label refugees. Show all posts
Saturday, January 13, 2018

EUROPEAN POLITICS: Et tu, Angela? Merkel picks politics over people

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If Merkel really wants to stamp out the wearing of face veils, she will find no greater ally than the mainstream German Muslim communitie...
Friday, October 13, 2017

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS: Abetz should look in his own Nazi backyard before comparing refugees to terrorists

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If comparing Eric Abetz to the Nazis is "unAustralian", what is comparing refugees to terrorists? In the author’s note at...
Friday, July 17, 2015

OPINION: Tony Abbott getting it wrong on the Rohingya

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Something is very rotten in the state of Myanmar. By any measure and any definition, a tiny ethnic minority of Myanmar is the subject of...
Tuesday, June 16, 2015

OPINION: Bishop's mission to Iran raises more questions than it answers

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What a crazy few weeks leading up to Anzac Day period it's been. We've had Reclaim Australia holding rallies in most major ci...
Thursday, September 12, 2013

POLITICS: Wizardry required to govern Oz

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Tony Abbott has been handed a resounding victory but he is likely to inherit major problems in the Senate.  Back in the 1980s, when I w...
Sunday, July 28, 2013

POLITICS: Australia turns its back on the desperate

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The beachside Sydney suburb of Manly is home to many an Aussie boat-owner. Indeed locals (including the abundance of Kiwi settlers) will t...
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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...
Wednesday, February 16, 2011

COMMENT: Things I learned about asylum seekers today

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Here is a summary of learnings I gained from various smart, important and influential people today on the subject of asylum seekers today:...
Monday, December 20, 2010

OPINION: Asylum-seeker shame rises for some political pundits

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Oh, to have been a fly on the wall of the United States embassy in Canberra last November. And to be sitting there watching and listening...
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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...
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 ...
Friday, April 16, 2010

OPINION: Politics of prejudice hover around immigration question ...

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Hawkish political positions make it difficult to discuss sustainable population concerns, IRFAN YUSUF writes Writing for a News Limited ...
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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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