HUMAN RIGHTS and REFUGEES

Report on Torture case Won Against Chinese Commerce Minister
Australia makes WAR on Iraq and Iraqi Refugees
by Pamela Curr
Thursday April 19, 2007

NSW Charter on Human Rights 2007

The New Matilda campaign for a Human Rights Act

The Justice Project

Article submitted The Age for 5th anniversary Tampa 26 August 2006

Labor for Refugees (Victoria) proposed amendments to chapter 7 of the ALP Platform on asylum seekers, adopted by the ALP (Vic) Commonwealth and Federal Relations Policy Committee

CAFR_NPC_Amendments_23NOV05

Seven objections raised by a Victorian Federal Shadow Minister to proposed amendments and the response of Labor for Refugees

The SMH today 19.8.06 published this article on the Tampa. Another excellent piece by David Marr. what a contrast New Zealand is with the meanness of the Australian approach.

Australia's Great Shame

What the PM owes to Hansonism, Emma Dawson, The Age, 8 September 2006

Rights reduced to rhetoric,

Waleed Aly, The Age, 6 July 2006

PEOPLES INQUIRY INTO IMMIGRATION DETENTION 19 Nov, 2005

Human Rights in the Age of Terror 02 Dec, 2005

Tampa Day media release 26 August 2005

( includes the open letter to Prime Minister John Howard and the list of signatories to the letter)

Tampa Rally speech 26 August 2005

(speech given at the Tampa Day Rally, State Library, Melbourne, by Robin Rothfield

Australian National University Human Rights Research Project

Notes from DARK VICTORY

Notes by Robin Rothfield on the book, DARK VICTORY,  by David Marr and Marian Wilkinson
Allen & Unwin, 2003,
31 May 2004

Children in detention - HREOC media release
HREOC Media Release, 10 June 2004.

Julian Burnside QC speech to Melbourne Rotary
By Julian Burnside QC, 16 February 2004

No need for a dirt unit on John Howard

By Tony Kevin, 7 July 2004

The Visa changes

By Jack H Smit, Project SafeCom Inc., 14 July 2004

Iranian Refugees in Australia

By Jack H Smit, Project SafeCom Inc., 12 July 2004

Bitter legacy of the ferryman

Extract of the book A CERTAIN MARITIME INCIDENT, THE SINKING OF SIEV X, by Tony Kevin, dated 2 August 2004 and published on www.tonykevin.com

Asylum seeker policy could decide election

Ian MacPhee, Former Liberal Immigration Minister in the Fraser Government

Number of children in detention

By ChilOut (Children Out Of Detention,) a group of parents and citizens opposed to the mandatory detention of children in Australian immigration detention centres

The tragedy that Australia refuses to remember

By Arnold Zable, The Age, 19 October 2004, on the occasion of the third anniversary of the sinking of the SIEV X

Petro Georgiou's speech
Report of speech by Liberal MP, The Age, 29 August 2001, Reproduced by permission

After the 2004 ALP National Conference, Robin Rothfield wrote a discussion paper comparing the decisions on asylum seekers with those made at ALP State Conferences over the preceding 2 years.

Discussion Paper - ALP National Conference 2004 (by Robin Rothfield)

The paper recognized improvements in ALP policy compared to that of the Government but explained that it did not go as far as State Branches had sought.