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Overall, Australia needs a fundamental shift that recognises fairness contributes to, rather than detracts from efficiency.
Even we were surprised at the levels of mental ill-health years after being released into the community.
Connections between smuggling and other forms of serious organised crime remain largely unverified.
Why are governments so rarely seen as being responsible for creating the conditions that allow asylum seeker tragedies to occur?
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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