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By Tony Kevin, published 12/10/2006The fifth anniversary of the sinking of SIEV X: and why it still matters.
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They also are not eligable if they have found employment in countries other than the one they claim they are fleeing from. This alone would disqualify the Bakhtiaris even IF they were confirmed to be Afghan as the father had work in Pakistan.
"Well founded".... The idea that a man can put his family in "safe" places and then abandon them and come to Australia alone, ala Marilyn Shepherd, is laughable. When was the last time you 'put your family' in a safe place OUTside your own social/ethnic/kinship group ? And if they are with them, they are tracable easily. Secondly.. and this is the zinger.. if the man can put his FAMILY in a 'SAFE' place..why the heck can HE not also avail himself of this SAFE place ? (errr tap tap.. assylum is not from 'safe' places)
"Member of a particular social group" has also been scrutinized closely by our government and rightly so.
Much of the UN charter terminology was based on specific events which no longer applied after 1951, but the terminology carried over.
The cynical attempt to malignantly seek some kind of memorial in AUSTRALIA for those lost at sea in international waters, who were not our citizens, who did nothing for us except drain our resources, is nothing more than a political cancer which should be given the most severe form of chemotherapy. The audacity of Tony Kevin and Greens to use this tragedy for base amoral political purposes and gain is shameful in the extreme. Their shame is only exceeded by the attempt to throw political holy water on it and purify it to the community,by shaming us, with the likes of Bob Brown talking about 'High Values'...choke..
Instead of this idiotic political memorial, lets instead put one there honoring some notable contributor to Australian life. Why not Albert Namatjira..or Weary Dunlop ? yep..I'd support that.