Why are governments so rarely seen as being responsible for creating the conditions that allow asylum seeker tragedies to occur?
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Over time, Armidale locals had more positive attitudes towards refugees and the regional settlement program.
Australia’s offshore detention policies have helped to produce indifference to the suffering of refugees. Pushing refugees out of sight, and out of mind, has now placed them beyond moral concern.
Nauru is receiving hundreds of millions of dollars from Australia annually to house 109 asylum seekers. The real purpose, though, is to ‘stand ready to receive new arrivals’.
This important case because represents a rare litigation win for an asylum seeker. He doesn’t automatically get the right to stay in Australia, but he’s won damages — and that’s unusual.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison can learn from the pitfalls that contributed to the downfall of the Rudd and Gillard governments.
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Associate Professor, Law School, La Trobe University
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Historian, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Associate, Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Law School, UNSW Sydney
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Lecturer, Edith Cowan University
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Associate Professor in History, Deakin University
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University
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Associate Professor in Psychology, University of New England
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Professor, Department of Psychology, Durham University
