Published on November 22, 2010 by Technology Slice
Detention Center Protest Continues – Five local residents have travelled Canberra at their own expense in a bid to lobby the prime minister and independent MPs to delay the centre’s opening. Weeks of community mediation over the Inverbrackie centre have failed to quell local concerns that health and education services will be stretched to the [...]
Tags: asylum seekers, Canberra, Community Action Group, Community Mediation, Defence Housing, Disaster, Due Diligence, Education Services, Evacuations, Federal Government, Housing Estate, Independent Mps, Locals, Parliamentary Inquiry, Prime Minister, protest, Refugee Group, refugees, Undesirable Element, Woodside Community
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Published on March 22, 2010 by Technology Slice
UN Chief Condemns Gaza Situation – UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has toured areas of the Gaza Strip where the blockade on building materials means homes destroyed by Israel’s three week offensive against Islamic militants in January 2009 still lie derelict. Those living here say life is desperate. Israel has kept Gaza under a tight [...]
Tags: Ban Ki Moon, Benjamin Netanyahu, Blockade, Building Materials, Derelict, East Jerusalem, Fatah, Gaza Strip, Hamas, Islamic Militants, Israel, Israeli Prime Minister, Negotiations, Odds, Peace Talks, Proximity Talks, refugees, Settlement Expansion, Tight, Un Secretary General
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Published on October 14, 2009 by Technology Slice
$80,000 A Day To Run Christmas Island – Kevin Rudd today refused to rule out calling in the Indonesian Navy again to repel boatpeople as it emerged taxpayers are spending more than $80,000 a day to detain hundreds of asylum-seekers at Christmas Island. Attacking the “vile” criminals profiting from the people-smuggling trade, the Prime Minister [...]
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