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Australian immigration law weblog: Back to the past -- temporary protection visas re-introduced, only worse
http://migrantlaw.blogspot.com/2012/11/back-to-past-temporary-protection-visas.html
Australian immigration law weblog. This weblog is set up and maintained by Michael Jones, an accredited specialist Australian immigration lawyer / attorney. Back to the past - temporary protection visas re-introduced, only worse. So has the Labor government given in and adopted the rest of the Howard asylum seeker policy? If anybody cares any more, here is a link to the Convention on the Status of Refugees. Oh yes, of course, it's our overriding humanitarian concern to stop people drowning at sea. If...
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Australian immigration law weblog
http://migrantlaw.blogspot.com/2011/11/majestic-equality-of-law-for-asylum.html
Australian immigration law weblog. This weblog is set up and maintained by Michael Jones, an accredited specialist Australian immigration lawyer / attorney. The Majestic Equality of the Law for asylum seekers. The majestic equality of the law," observed the 19th Century novellist Anatole France, "makes it an offence for rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the street, or steal bread.". The report is available here. With bipartisan support (minus the Greens, or course), the Bill will get thr...
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Australian immigration law weblog: How many will die if we do stop the boats?
http://migrantlaw.blogspot.com/2013/07/how-many-will-die-if-we-do-stop-boats.html
Australian immigration law weblog. This weblog is set up and maintained by Michael Jones, an accredited specialist Australian immigration lawyer / attorney. How many will die if we do stop the boats? Will stopping the boats really save lives? That seems to be the one argument that gets any traction outside of redneck circles, but does it hold up? But what about those 35,000 who made it here? I am speculating, of course. But my point is that the argument about drownings at sea ignores the total pictur...
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Australian immigration law weblog: March 2013
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Australian immigration law weblog. This weblog is set up and maintained by Michael Jones, an accredited specialist Australian immigration lawyer / attorney. Watch out for a migrant bashing election campaign. On the other hand, maybe they are being far cleverer than I thought. In attacking their own policies, the plan might be to get the Opposition to defend them. Abbott and Morrison seem to have fallen for it alright. I fear the subtlety may be lost on the electorate, however. In the past, by the time an...
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Australian immigration law weblog
http://migrantlaw.blogspot.com/2012/01/temporary-residents-not-integrating.html
Australian immigration law weblog. This weblog is set up and maintained by Michael Jones, an accredited specialist Australian immigration lawyer / attorney. Temporary residents not "integrating" - maybe because they're temporary? The Opposition spokesperson for immigration, Scott Morrison, thinks that people holding temporary work visas are not "integrating" with Australian society. His colleague Teresa Gambaro suspects this may have something to do with their unfamiliarity with certain cosmetic products.
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Australian immigration law weblog: June 2013
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Australian immigration law weblog. This weblog is set up and maintained by Michael Jones, an accredited specialist Australian immigration lawyer / attorney. Voices that won't be heard. Labor MP Laurie Ferguson has warned the Gillard government that it needs to tell people there are "no easy options" when it comes to asylum seekers arriving by boat. One of the most respected researchers on global migration movements, Dr Khalid Koser, in an article published by the Lowy Institute for International Policy.
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Australian immigration law weblog: Too much demagoguery clouds the immigration debate
http://migrantlaw.blogspot.com/2012/05/too-much-demagoguery-clouds-immigration.html
Australian immigration law weblog. This weblog is set up and maintained by Michael Jones, an accredited specialist Australian immigration lawyer / attorney. Too much demagoguery clouds the immigration debate. Once again, discussion of immigration policy descends to the lowest (or most ill-informed) common denominator. Gina Reinhart gets 1700 foreign workers while Qantas lays off 500 Aussies! Something must be wrong with that! 15 February 2013 at 00:05. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Australian immigration law weblog: Disinterest, fear or memory? Three ways of looking at asylum seekers
http://migrantlaw.blogspot.com/2012/06/disinterest-fear-or-memory-three-ways.html
Australian immigration law weblog. This weblog is set up and maintained by Michael Jones, an accredited specialist Australian immigration lawyer / attorney. Disinterest, fear or memory? Three ways of looking at asylum seekers. Former Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone made her position crystal clear on the ABC's political talk show The Drum. This school is yet to explain why Australia has not already been flooded by millions of better-life-seekers from nearby countries like Indonesia and the Philippine...
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Australian immigration law weblog: Watch out for a migrant bashing election campaign
http://migrantlaw.blogspot.com/2013/03/watch-out-for-migrant-bashing-election.html
Australian immigration law weblog. This weblog is set up and maintained by Michael Jones, an accredited specialist Australian immigration lawyer / attorney. Watch out for a migrant bashing election campaign. On the other hand, maybe they are being far cleverer than I thought. In attacking their own policies, the plan might be to get the Opposition to defend them. Abbott and Morrison seem to have fallen for it alright. I fear the subtlety may be lost on the electorate, however. In the past, by the time an...
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Australian immigration law weblog
http://migrantlaw.blogspot.com/2011/12/great-offshore-processing-con-christmas.html
Australian immigration law weblog. This weblog is set up and maintained by Michael Jones, an accredited specialist Australian immigration lawyer / attorney. The Great Offshore Processing Con. This entry was amended after reading Robert Manne's views in The Monthly. Christmas may be the silly season for television programming, but Australia is experiencing a long silly, or rather plain stupid, season in the politics of asylum seeker processing. Labor's "Malaysian solution" certainly doesn't offer anything...
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