Refugees

A Good Day for Refugees

Posted by Chris Anderson in Refugees
Tuesday, July 29. 2008

All Brunswick Labor members will welcome today's news from Canberra regarding changes to the detention system for illegal immigrants. Today's announcememnts are a vindication of the hard work by Labor for Refugees and rank and file members of the ALP in Brunswick, and elsewhere, over the past seven years arguing for change in both ALP policy and the nation's policy.

Minister Evans speech, New Directions in Detention, outlines a new appraoch.

The challenge for Labor, having tackled the worst excesses of the Howard immigration legacy, is to introduce a new set of values to immigration detention – values that seek to emphasise a risk-based approach to detention and prompt resolution of cases rather than punishment....
Today I want to announce that Cabinet has endorsed a policy containing seven values that will guide and drive new detention policy and practice into the future.
These values will result in a risk-based approach to the management of immigration clients.

The Government’s seven key immigration values are:

1. Mandatory detention is an essential component of strong border control.
2. To support the integrity of Australia’s immigration program, three groups will be subject to mandatory detention:
(a) all unauthorised arrivals, for management of health, identity and security risks to the community
(b) unlawful non-citizens who present unacceptable risks to the community and
(c) unlawful non-citizens who have repeatedly refused to comply with their visa conditions.
3. Children, including juvenile foreign fishers and, where possible, their families, will not be detained in an immigration detention centre (IDC).
4. Detention that is indefinite or otherwise arbitrary is not acceptable and the length and conditions of detention, including the appropriateness of both the accommodation and the services provided, would be subject to regular review.
5. Detention in immigration detention centres is only to be used as a last resort and for the shortest practicable time.
6. People in detention will be treated fairly and reasonably within the law.
7. Conditions of detention will ensure the inherent dignity of the human person.

Labor’s reforms will fundamentally change the premise underlying detention policy.

Congratulations Federal Labor.

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Fighting for Refugee Rights

Posted by Carlo Carli in Refugees
Wednesday, October 18. 2006

Last week I attended a function at the Foundation House for the Survivors of Torture in my electorate. The Minister for Health Bronwyn Pike presented a progress report on the Government’s Refugee Health and Wellbeing Action Plan.

This plan, first launched in 2005, provides support to refugees and asylum seekers trying to re-establish their lives in Victoria. This support extends to asylum seekers who are under temporary protection visas (TPV) and would otherwise be ineligible for free access to our health system.

Victoria is the first State which provides refugees with a TPV visa to free access to public hospitals, the community dental program and ambulance services.

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Support for Refugee Communities in Inner Melbourne

Posted by Carlo Carli in Refugees
Friday, July 21. 2006

I welcome the announcement last night that Six African and Middle Eastern refugee communities in inner Melbourne will receive help settling into the community thanks to a $140,000 boost from the Bracks Government.

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New Employment Program for Refugees and Migrants

Posted by Carlo Carli in Refugees
Tuesday, May 23. 2006

Skills shortages amongst refugee and migrant communities will be addressed through a new Bracks Government employment program that will help local job seekers into real work, the Member for Brunswick, Carlo Carli announced today.

Coburg organisation, the Victorian Cooperative on Children's Services for Ethnic Groups (VICSEG) will run New Life - New Workplace: an employment program for refugee and CALD jobseekers - one of the first projects to be announced today under the Workforce Participation Partnerships program would create more than 1200 jobs across the State.

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Tampa Anniversary Rally

Posted by Carlo Carli in Refugees
Friday, August 26. 2005

Friday, 26 August 2005
5pm at the State Library
Swanston Street, near Lonsdale

FREEDOM AND FULL RIGHTS
FOR ALL REFUGEES
Commemorating the arrival on Australian shores of the Norwegian merchant vessel Tampa and its surplus cargo of human maritime victims.

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World Refugee Day Rally

Posted by Chris Anderson in Refugees
Tuesday, June 28. 2005

The World Refugee rally two weeks ago has got some local media coverage.

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Refugee March Continues

Posted by Carlo Carli in Refugees
Monday, June 20. 2005

Paula Rizzuto, Coburg

Despite the deal struck in Canberra our refugee system has not been made more humane at the stroke of a pen.

Many injustices remain such as the rampant behaviour of the Immigration Department, the continuation of the iniquitous Temporary Protection Visa's and Mandatory Detention remains.

Thats why a group of my fellow ALP Members - including staff from my office - joined the march in support of refugee rights in inner Melbourne yesterday. The group included a number of Past and Present office holders in the party, as well as rank and file members such as the talented Paula Rizzuto who wore her Labor for Refugees t-shirt.

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Removal Pending Visa's will not help Refugees

Posted by Chris Anderson in Refugees
Wednesday, March 23. 2005

The Howard Government's announcement of the new Removal Pending Visa today is a heavy handed attempt to bully genuine refugees into agreeing to be deported from Australia.

The Removal Pending Visa category has a number of conditions which include:

The Government intends that access will be determined on an individual basis and limited to those immigration detainees who
• do not have any visa applications or litigation outstanding;
• the Minister believes it is not reasonably practicable to remove for the time being;
• the Minister believes have done everything possible to facilitate their removal from Australia; and
• have agreed in writing to abide by all prescribed conditions, and cooperate fully with arrangements for their removal from Australia, including leaving Australia when advised to do so.

This is not good enough. It is an unsubtle attempt to bully detainees into giving up their human rights and rights of administrative review.

Fortunately people are seeing through this uncharitable Gesture. Amnesty International has already criticised the decision.

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Refugee Urgency Motion - Victorian ALP State Conference 2002

Posted by Chris Anderson in Refugees
Tuesday, May 21. 2002

At the May 2002 State Conference an Urgency Resolution on Refugee Policy was debated and passed. The motion was moved by Greg Sword (then Federal ALP President) and seconded by Carlo Carli,

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ALP Refugee & Immigration Policy Proposal

Posted by Chris Anderson in Refugees
Tuesday, February 26. 2002

On Sunday 24th February the Victorian ALP held a policy forum on refugee and asylum seeker policy. The following resolution was prepared by a number of ALP members and moved by Carlo Carli in attempt to highlight some of the key issues raised at the forum for further discussion within the ALP. This resolution is being circulated in the spirit of increasing internal debate.

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Asylum Seekers - Speech to Victorian Parliament 2nd May 2001

Posted by Chris Anderson in Papers & Speeches, Parliament, Refugees
Tuesday, May 1. 2001

Speech given to the Legislative Assembly on the 2nd May, 2001.

Asylum seekers: detention

Mr CARLI (Coburg) - I grieve for asylum seekers who find themselves in detention in some of the remotest parts of Australia. I grieve especially for the more than 200 children living in those remote detention centres.

Honourable members know a lot about those centres and about the issues that have arisen in them. They have seen on television and in the newspapers reports of the break outs, hunger strikes, riots, allegations of abuse, ill treatment of people and mismanagement of the centres, which are now in crisis.

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