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ABC misleading in its dog whistling on refugees": blogosphere in uproar!

Tuesday, 03 August 2010 12:03

Asylum seeker on boatABC’s Four corners program misled the Australian public yesterday by announcing a unpublicised decision  by the Australian government of increasing the annual intake of 50 Indonesian based refugees to 500.  What has conspired remains unclear since Australia's Department of Immigration declined to confirm how many of the 3,000 UN-registered refugees in Indonesia will be resettled this year, but said the humanitarian program is flexible to "respond to emerging humanitarian situations”.Link to ABC article 

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FECCA head Pino Migliorino: Migrants made to feel like 'election scapegoats'

Monday, 02 August 2010 15:29

ABC News    By Jennifer Macey Posted Sat Jul 31, 2010 5:30pm AEST

Migrant communities say they are being made to feel like scapegoats by both the major parties in the election debate on population and asylum seekers. The Ethnic Communities Council of Australia says both Labor and the Coalition are fear-mongering and causing migrants to feel marginalised.  Council chairman Pino Migliorino says a sensible debate on the issue is needed.

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Suvendrini Perera: Population debate hides an ugly racism

Sunday, 01 August 2010 12:59

Julia Gillard's ''right kind of migrants'' are people in her own image
National Times  31 July 2010

Nearly all commentators see the current ''population'' debate as confusing or conflating a number of issues: environmental sustainability, overcrowding, failing infrastructure - and the arrival of asylum seekers, despite their admittedly small and unthreatening numbers. However, there is an underlying coherence to these issues, one that emerges in the numerous images of Julia Gillard cuddling carefully selected babies.

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Attacking refugee myths - UNSW Professor Jane McAdam

Wednesday, 28 July 2010 09:22

Assoc Prof Jane McAdam of UNSW Law School : apologies, no transcript available.

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