[Commpsych] FW: [All] Emergency Action for Refugees - a detention centre in East Timor??!

[Heather Gridley]

Here we were worrying about the future of community psychology in Australia, and the Gillard government is busy out-Howarding Abbott by proposing to set up a detention centre in one of the poorest countries in the world - just a bit closer to home than Nauru.
 
I am speechless (for once).
 
Heather Gridley 

Honorary Fellow
School of Social Sciences and Psychology 
Victoria University 
PO Box 14428 
Melbourne VIC 8001 
Australia 

MOBILE: 0419 113 731 
Email: heather.gridley at vu.edu.au

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From: Julie Morsillo [mailto:julie.m at asrc.org.au]
Sent: Tue 6/07/2010 5:01 PM
To: Heather Gridley; Morsillo, Robert J
Subject: Fwd: [All] Emergency Action for Refugees



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From: Pamela Curr <pcurr at internode.on.net>
Date: Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 3:06 PM
Subject: [All] Emergency Action for Refugees
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Emergency Action for Refugee rights:
Drop the dog-whistle
No return to Howard's Pacific Solution

8:45am Treasury Place - Cnr Spring Street, Treasury Place. 
TOMORROW: Wednesday, 7 July

In a nationally televised speech to the Lowy Insitute, today, Julia Gillard has announced her intention to return to Howard style policies on refugees.

A new detention centre will be built on East Timor and asylum seekers who come to Australia by boat will be removed there.

It is an outrageous return to the infamous Pacific Solution of John Howard and Phillip Ruddock.

East Timor is ranked 162 on the UN Human development index and is one of the poorest countries in the world, they have their own problems and should not have Australia's responsibilities to care for refugees dumped on them.

It is appalling and must stop. 

Solidarity,

Jake Wishart
0400 444 042






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Julie Morsillo PhD MAPS
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