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	Australia: The impact of indefinite detention: the case to change Australia's mandatory detention regime - Amnesty ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Australia’s detention policy also compromises the ability of refugees to seek and enjoy asylum and is in breach of Article 31(1) of the Refugee Convention, which prohibits the imposition of penalties on refugees on account of their illegal entry or presence in the territory of a state party(61).
		The most egregious examples of indefinite detention in the context of immigration detention in Australia are those where a person has been finally determined not to have a claim to protection under the Refugee Convention, is not awaiting a decision from the Minister for Immigration in exercise of her discretionary powers under s.
		Detention of asylum-seekers … as part of a policy to deter future asylum-seekers, or to dissuade those who have commenced their claims from pursuing them, is contrary to the norms of refugee law.
	web.amnesty.org /library/index/engasa120012005 (17890 words)

	Green Left - After 5 years, Khan leaves detention centre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On August 6, long-term immigration detainee Stephen Khan was released from detention at the Perth Immigration Detention Centre on the order of Federal Court Justice Malcolm Lee.
		The legal argument in court centred on whether Khan has a case to argue that his detention is unlawful.
		This stems from a precedent set earlier last year, in the Al Masri case, in which the Federal Court ruled that immigration detention is only allowed for the purposes of administration.
	www.greenleft.org.au /2003/549/29797 (418 words)

	Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Website: Asylum Seekers
		He calls for changes to the Migration Act to set specific time limits on detention and for interim measures to be put in place to alleviate prolonged detention of those awaiting safe return to their countries of origin or a third country.
		During the period of the Commission's investigations the immigration detention centres were managed by DIMA and operated on its behalf by Australian Protective Services, a federal government agency.
		The Commission recommended that those whose detention cannot be justified for one of these reasons should be released, subject to reporting requirements, until their status is determined.
	www.hreoc.gov.au /human_rights/asylum_seekers (1656 words)

	Immigration Detention and Illegal Migration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Perth IDC was opened in 1981 and is located within the Perth Domestic Airport precinct.
		The Centre is located in a mixed use area comprising: office accommodation; domestic air terminals; a large public car parking facility; a valet parking facility; airport hangers and maintenance facilities; air freight cargo terminals; the Australia Post Mail Processing Centre and a number of vacant redevelopment sites.
		Perth IDC accommodates 55 detainees (nominal capacity) and has a contingency capacity for an additional 9 detainees (surge capacity).
	www.immi.gov.au /managing-australias-borders/detention/facilities_perth.htm (551 words)

	Scoop: Detainee "Commemorates" 2000 Days In Detention
		This bill is designed to prevent the release of a Œprisoner¹‹and I use that word advisedly‹held in an Australian immigration detention centre, pending a court¹s final determination of the substantive matter as to the lawfulness of a person¹s detention or whether a person is an unlawful noncitizen.
		It makes it more difficult for Australian courts to intervene to release people from our immigration detention centres, especially those who have no likelihood of finding a visa to another country or who have real fears for their personal safety, and the safety of their families, should they return home.
		In a debate dealing with mandatory detention, so-called queue jumpers and people bringing about their own detention by coming to Australia without appropriate papers, it might be worth while to consider the plight of one real, flesh and blood victim of Australia¹s immigration detention system.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/WO0403/S00079.htm (3052 words)

	'Guantanamo' under construction on Australian Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Department of Immigration (DIMIA) said that when construction of the Christmas Island facility was finished, a review was likely to be taken to close some mainland detention centres such as Baxter in South Australia.
		Mr Thompson, who is opposed to the imprisonment of refugees, said the centre was being built on the island in an effort to avoid public scrutiny from mainland Australians.
		The detention centre site is adjacent to prime "Abbotts booby" habitat, in the north-west corner of the island, and is surrounded by the Christmas Island National Park.
	www.juiceenewsdaily.com /1105/news/guan.html?1133248627187 (1146 words)

	Ombudsman - Bulletin 5–7 November 2005–Progress with assessments of the circumstances of people who have ...
		Reports are to be provided to this office by the end of 2005 for all persons who had been in detention for more than two years as at 29 June 2005, and reports for those who had reached the two-year mark post 29 June 2005, within 21 days of reaching two years.
		For example, the person may have been released from detention and their whereabouts are unknown; an interpreter may be needed for the interview; or it may be necessary to schedule the interview at a time when other interviews are being held at the same detention facility or hospital.
		As that implies, a report is to be contemporaneous in its focus, and not an historical assessment of a person’s detention.
	www.comb.gov.au /commonwealth/publish.nsf/Content/bulletin_2005_05 (2308 words)

	Grounded until further notice - theage.com.au
		The centre blends in with the utilitarian architecture of the buildings around it, until you notice the razor wire and barbed wire on top of the high brick walls.
		The centre holds up to 50 people; Khan sleeps with five other men in a bunk-bed-filled dormitory about half the size of a family living room.
		In a letter to Immigration Minister Ruddock in April, 2000, the Kashmir Council of Australia claimed no Kashmiris are safe in India and that Khan would face death if he went back.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/04/16/1018333500570.html (1790 words)

	Green Left - Detention centre vigil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The vigil heard from RRAN member Peter Wilkie, who explained that in spite of minor administrative concessions by the government and microscopic reforms to the ALP’s policy, all of the physical and legal infrastructure of Australia’s asylum seeker policies is still in place.
		“Detention centres are the primary physical expression of these policies and this makes it very important for us to continue to confront them”, he said.
		Wilkie floated the idea of nationally coordinated vigils at detention centres across the country and called for another protest convergence at the Baxter detention centre in South Australia.
	www.greenleft.org.au /2004/591/32074 (247 words)

	Immigration detention centre review
		Those detained in Australia's immigration centres are considered by the Association to be disadvantaged in their access to library and information resources and services compared with the general community, which has ready access to the comprehensive Australian public library network for educational, informational, technological and recreational purposes.
		However the linguistically and culturally diverse and changing populations of the centres require flexible and cost-effective responses about which public libraries and their central agencies are well placed to advise and assist.
		With 61 detainees from fiftenn nations, this centre is small with a diverse and unstable population, although some detainees at the time of the visit had been there for up to two years.
	alia.org.au /advocacy/submissions/leftovers.and.scraps.html (2543 words)

	Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade: Reports: Visits to Immigration Detention Centres; Chapter 2
		In recent times, detention facilities have had to cope with an influx of unauthorised boat and air arrivals, yet have retained sufficient capacity throughout this period to also manage overstayers.
		An Immigration Detention Advisory Group will be formed to provide the Minister with advice on the appropriateness and adequacy of services, accommodation and facilities at immigration detention centres around Australia.
		The main issues considered were the grounds for holding immigration detainees in prisons and whether the policies and procedures established by DIMA were being followed in practice.
	www.aph.gov.au /house/committee/jfadt/IDCVisits/IDCchap2.htm (5221 words)

	RACISM AGAINST REFUGEES IN AUSTRALIA
		This detention is very small and too much surveillance and no privacy (Human rights recommended that Immigration should not keep any detainee longer than three months, but a few detainees have been kept here for two to three years).
		In detention centers there are self-harm, damage to property, fights and assaults caused by chronic deficiencies in the management of detainees.
		Detention centers were built to keep Refugees and non-citizens for a short time just like care centers, but it’s been converted into prisons.
	www.country-liberal-party.com /pages/Refugees.htm (2104 words)

	News from first Global Days of Action Against Immigration Detention, April 2006 \| Sydney Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		More than 120 immigrants held at a detention centre in Portsmouth have begun a hunger strike in protest at conditions at the centre, with children as young as 15 said to be refusing food.
		It is the second hunger strike at a detention centre in just over a week, and protesters say strikes will spread to other centres throughout the UK.
		"Detention is an essential element in the effective enforcement of immigration control, in particular in support of our removals strategy," she said.
	sydney.indymedia.org /node/36614 (1018 words)

	Media Releases Kaye Bernard
		The "Sorry Cake" from the Immigration Minister to apologise for the birthday cake she missed out on because GSL refused to allow the cake to be given to her, has not yet arrived.
		With the Immigration Minister's cries in Parliament, Michael's face was captured for Australia to see and the river of divide went chilly and cold as Australia faced the fact his mother was guarded while the doctors performed a caesarean delivery.
		Michael was delivered by caesarean section at Perth's King Edward Women's Hospital with GSL [Global Solutions Ltd, the private correctional company that runs Australian detention centres] guards standing watch at the door as part of compliance with Australia's mandatory detention policy.
	www.chilout.org /news/KB_media_releases.html (3410 words)

	Margo Kingston's Webdiary - smh.com.au (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Department of Immigration detained her as the only woman together with 14 males in the Perth Immigration Detention Centre without an interpreter, and the detention centre operator GSL relies on some other Vietnamese-speaking men in the compound to tell them what Ms Nguyen is saying.
		Rau was also mistreated (as are all detainees in the detention centre) in Baxter detention centre, particularly given she had a serious mental illness.
		12 people have died in immigration detention in the last few years, one was a 27 year old woman with 3 young kids given nothing but panadol for blood pressure of 120/220 - high enough to kill a horse - and they tried to cover the whole thing up.
	webdiary.smh.com.au /archives/margo_kingston_comment/000692.html (20167 words)

	LHMU: Security News: Category Index
		Detention centre operator frustrates resolution to Port Hedland dispute
		Perth Detention Centre security guards to ban work with violent criminals
		Detention centre workers worried that someone could be killed
	www.lhmu.org.au /security/news/category_index.html (666 words)

	Refugee Action Committee, Canberra - Nader's story
		But all four were placed in detention, with the seaman who saved their lives being charged with "people smuggling".
		Despite pleas from advocates in Melbourne, Nader was returned to the Perth Immigration Detention Centre.
		Nader was forcibly removed from the Perth Detention Centre in May 2002.
	www.refugeeaction.org /deportation/nader.htm (438 words)

	From Nauru to Perth Detention centre and back
		The account shows that no attempt was made to protect the witnesses from the likely retribution of people smugglers, who are known in Afghanistan as The Maffia, and who, because they control much more than people trafficking, are feared everywhere.
		It details their strange days in Perth Immigration Detention Centre, which it ought to be noted was not originally intended for asylum seekers, and it houses violent and sometimes crazy criminals awaiting deportation after jail terms.
		While we poor and desperate asylum seekers, guarded by giant and with 100 Kg weights and we had to ask them for their permission even for a toilet, we arrived in Perth at 12.00pm according to the local time.
	www.yarratech.com /srfr/pages/A31.htm (2040 words)

	Pope critical of Australian refugee policy: Ambassador
		There were large rallies in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth on the weekend to protest at the Australian government policy towards asylum seekers.
		Meanwhile, the Labor Party is coming under increased pressure to reverse support for immigration detention after a leading frontbencher renewed her attack on the policy.
		She promised she would urge her colleagues in federal and state parliaments to speak out against the policy, which she said was inhumane, brutal and demeaning.
	www.cathtelecom.com /news/202/009.php (235 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Labor says Children Under Threat of Returning to Detention
		Labor says children are under threat of being returned to immigration detention centres under the federal government's new hardline policy on asylum seekers.
		Federal Liberal backbencher Petro Georgiou helped force the Howard government to soften its immigration detention policy last year, including removing children from centres and placing them in community detention.
		But the federal opposition says the facilities on Nauru and Papua New Guinea's Manus Island are not officially classified as detention centres by the government, paving the way for children to be put back behind razor wire.
	www.theepochtimes.com /news/6-4-16/40488.html (687 words)

	Project SafeCom Inc. News Release 14 March 2005
		Mrs Nguyen was flown to Perth from Christmas Island two weeks ago for cataract surgery but reportedly also has a leg problem that could extend her stay another month or two.
		Senator Vanstone said yesterday Mrs Nguyen was placed in the airport detention centre in readiness for surgery, which was subsequently delayed, and because there were other people from Christmas Island whom she knew.
		Mrs Bernard called on Perth people to take their grandmothers to a vigil outside the domestic terminal detention centre building between 6pm and 7pm today.
	www.safecom.org.au /news-1403-2005.htm (1451 words)

	RILC - Policy and Law Reform
		In a climate where the fabric of our multicultural society is placed under increasing pressure, RILC sees its role in the policy debate on migration issues as fundamentally important.
		RILC staff also present papers on immigration issues at international, national and state conferences and participate in a range of other community based policy forums.
		RILC is a board member of the Refugee Council of Australia, the national advocacy body representing individuals and organisations working for refugees.
	www.rilc.org.au /policylaw.htm (300 words)

	no-racism.net: Villawood 2006 - protests against immigration detention
		The uncanny timing of an asbestos scare at Villawood detention center was the governments excuse for the relocation.
		There was lots of singing led by people on the loudspeaker, and also a rap where the crowd chanted as a beat and chorus while the rapper spoke of refugee and and aboriginal stories of oppression and survival.
		Day two of protest at Villawood detention center saw about 200 people show up to voice dissent against the governments policy of imprisoning asylum seekers and people who have overstayed on visas.
	no-racism.net /article/1647 (769 words)

	no-racism.net: Vigil at Perth Immigration Detention Centre
		On Friday afternoon we made the banner drawing attention to the Refugee Detention Centre, simply because hardly anyone knows it is there.
		She gave us his name and we decided to go back soon with a gift of some fresh fruit etc. for him and the other refugees.
		The food is terrble in PIDC and the nun had taken in fruit that day.
	no-racism.net /article/1646 (427 words)

	WA detainees begin hunger strike - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A group of 17 detainees at Perth's immigration detention centre have started a hunger strike to protest the withdrawal of a work program.
		The 17 detainees, including a number of Afghani and Iraqi men, began the hunger strike late on Wednesday and intend to continue to refuse food until the jobs and point values are restored.
		Comment was being sought from the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs.
	www.smh.com.au - !http: //www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/02/19/1077072770241.html (301 words)

	Welcome to Barbed Wire Britain
		Demo at Communications House, a reporting centre where asylum seekers and other migrants are required to report and are vulnerable to being locked up prior to detention and deportation.
		Convergence on Villawood Detention Centre in southwest Sydney to collectively voice direct opposition to the Howard government's treatment of refugees.
		The detention centre is just outside the domestic terminal of the airport on Brearley Avenue.
	www.barbedwirebritain.org.uk /events.shtml (391 words)

	LHMU: Security News: Date Index
		Villawood detention centre bosses try to force guards back to work
		Refugee detention centre workers at Villawood in 24hr walkout
		Shopping centre security guard uses website to organise new union members
	www.lhmu.org.au /security/news/date_index.html (666 words)

	Inside Film Magazine // Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Awards will be presented in four major categories: Television, Radio, Print and Photojournalism; and in five special categories: Aboriginal Reconciliation, Multicultural Issues, Women’s Rights and Issues, Children’s Rights and Issues, and Positive Images of the Older Person.
		Current Status of Detention Centres in Australia as at 15 September, 2004
		- Perth Immigration Detention Centre — opened 1981.
	www.if.com.au /Press/2004/09/29.html (2228 words)

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