39 UWA Staff Sign Open Letter to PM Calling for Immediate End to Offshore Detention Pelican17 August 2016 The letter - signed by over 1,800 academics from Universities across Australia - calls for the immediate closure of offshore detention centres, and that the government convene a National Policy Summit in 2017. Voice0 Comments14 views
‘Protection Denied, Abuse Condoned’: Words with Professor Carmen Lawrence Pelican20 June 2016 ‘’It is on every front: discrimination, hostility, abuse, indefinite detention, uncertainty… It’s a toxic mix for any human being, and to me, it is surprising that more refugees and asylum seekers haven’t attempted suicide.’’ Co-author of the recently-released 'Protection Denied, Abuse Condoned: Women on Nauru at Risk', Professor Carmen Lawrence talks with Pelican on the report’s findings, as well as the possibility of a more empathic alternative to Australia’s brutal response to the international humanitarian crisis. PoliticsVoice1 Comment37 views
How Far are we Willing to Go? Pelican1 May 2016 The Australian Government's offshore processing policy - introduced under Rudd and currently holding bipartisan support - is a project to side-step our humanitarian obligations by dumping the victims of global conflict into some of the most hopeless, isolated, and remote circumstances any individual could face. Ed Smith writes on the financial and human costs of this hard line strategy of so-called deterrence, and finds them hard to stomach. PoliticsVoice1 Comment16 views
