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1. No need for refugee deaths at sea

   several boats that have gone missing in or near Australian waters, said: “The alarm was raised with the ... spotted floating in the water from the boat, which had been reported days earlier as being ‘overdue’ on ... its journey from Indonesia.” Aerial rescue eventually located 13 bodies in the water from the capsized ...

2. Deported Afghan refugees have nowhere to go

   Development Project, it was to be a “housing settlement” with running water, jobs, schools and small ... problems. Shockingly, the site has never had a permanent water supply. Due to a land dispute with a nearby ... village, water has been trucked in and collected by children. And despite its agreement a year ago in the ...

3. Traditional owner: don't mine our land

   a significant Alice Springs water supply. Canadian resource giant, Cameco, has entered a joint venture with ... problems with the pace of ground water restoration, according to Canada's Calgary Herald. Traditional ... "There's a bore there and Alice Springs communities get their water from there, it would be too ...

4. Gillard signs deal with Nauru to dump refugees

   The area has no water supply or waste water treatment capacity. The other camp, “Statehouse”, is being ... waters by August 28. Most were being held on Christmas Island and in Darwin. Some had launched hunger ...

5. Australia’s border control policies leave refugees to die

   boat is not a “danger” because it is in Indonesian waters and therefore not the responsibility of ... “interception” of every boat that enters Australian waters, uses its resources according to “risk based ... and rescue response. Half the time you don’t believe them, they’re trying it on or after a water taxi. ...

6. Nauru uprising repeats history

   provisions, appalling food supplies and dangerously low fresh-water access. The letter from June 2003 read: ... enough water for washing. There is salty water in bathrooms just for four to six hours a day [and clean ... water only one to two hours a day]. "Whenever we put pressure on IOM for fulfilment of our legal ...

7. Refugees say Salvos are wrong about Nauru

   provided” for the men held there. It said: “Three meals and adequate water are provided each day. Food is ... water. They described their situation as “intolerable”. In our phone conversation, the young Pakistani ... headaches: it's very common here. Condition of food is very bad, very bad. Water is OK because we are ...

8. People smuggler hysteria is really about attacking refugees

   its way to Christmas Island when it began taking on water. A Singapore-flagged ship rescued the 120 ... boat was apparently drifting and taking on water near Sumbawa island in eastern Indonesia when it made ... refugees were onboard, including families, without engine power and in rough waters. After a search, ...

9. Refugees end hunger strike

   Immigration Transit Accommodation centre in Broadmeadows were refusing food and water, and sleeping on the ...

10. Poverty and Third World health

    Organisation (WHO) show the number of people in the world with little or no access to clean water, sanitation, ... countries suffer health problems caused by insufficient water and sanitation. Poor access to safe drinking ... water and adequate sanitation affects half of humanity. It said 1.8 million children die each year as ...

11. Rudd outsources cruelty: refugees are not criminals

    not reached Australian waters. The Afghan refugees were taken to a detention centre in West Timor. ... efforts, including $654 million to boost surveillance in Australia's northern waters and in so-called ... a system to intercept vessels in Australian waters, but also to "improve Australia's engagement ...

12. Racism kills — Rudd and Abbott’s anti-refugee hysteria

    vanished in shark-infested waters near the Cocos Islands over May 5-9. They were seeking help for the 59 ... water for at least eight days before the refugees were finally rescued on May 9. But the Labor federal ... “track” boats as they travel towards Australian waters. They do this not to ensure their safety, but to ...

13. Despairing refugees protest, self-harm on Nauru

    Panadol and an intake of cold water”. They also fear being quarantined if they contract any diseases. ... Access to clean water has been limited, because everything at the camp has to be flown in. Refugees say ... they are using dirty water for showers and cleaning. The state of care being provided by Australian ...

14. Australian authorities suppress Manus Island photos

    a high prevalence of mosquito-borne malaria. They had basic water amenities and were sleeping on camp ... legs,” and the water was not hygienic. Children were shown sleeping outside to escape stifling heat. ... had run out of water multiple times. Papua New Guinea's opposition leader, Belden Namah, has said ...

15. The human cost of climate change

    swallow towns and cities, small surges of sea levels will push salt water into aquifers, destroying ... supplies of safe drinking water. By 2030, 50% of the world's population will live in areas of high ... water stress or drought. Peasant farmers and fisher people are seeing their source of income and ...

16. Rudd's policy is racist — refugees are not illegal

    international waters, a second boat — also carrying refugees from Sri Lanka — sent out a distress signal off the ... navy to intervene and prevent asylum seeker vessels from reaching Australian waters — most notoriously ... "Pacific Solution". Under the policy, refugees who reached Australian waters were imprisoned on ...

17. Labor and Coalition unite to destroy refugee rights

    government is cajoling the opposition to agree to water down Australia’s refugee protections. The proposed ...

18. Tamils flee genocide — refugees should be welcomed!

    been moored at Merak after it was caught sailing toward Australian waters. The Indonesian navy took it ... hiding in a Malaysian jungle and then made it close enough to Australian waters to prompt the PM himself ... roves the waters of Indonesia and Malaysia, and monitors boats around Sri Lanka. The operations are not ...

19. Rudd expands refugee detention centre

    Australian.waters this year was intercepted off Ashmore Reef on October 29. The boat carried 34 asylum seekers and ...

20. Millions spent to persecute refugees

    in people smuggling activity around the world, including in Australian waters, means we need more ...

21. Palestine: Unarmed aid convoy attacked by Israeli commandos

    Defence Force may deploy a full naval fleet in waters around Gaza to prevent more than 10,000 tonnes of ... waters off Gaza become a closed zone for 20 nautical miles. Freegaza.org said on May 25: “Reports coming ...

22. Cambodians urge Australia to not resettle refugees there

    infrastructure, such as clean water, electricity and transportation. “How could Cambodia take Australian refugees ... navy enter their waters to send orange lifeboats full of people back to their shores, or overloading ...

23. Manus hunger strikers ask the world for help

    refusing water. At least 14 had reportedly sewn their lips together. As a result of their organised ... where water was cut off for more than 24 hours over January 21-22 and banners painted by the asylum ...

24. Refugees defy police, protest Nauru conditions

    without water in some cells”, RAC said. Nauru's government had previously threatened refugees with up ... of water to share. Analysis ...

25. We need an Abbott-proof fence

    asylum seekers “turned around and escorted back to Indonesian waters”. Abbott would reintroduce ... right again, including watering down unfair dismissal laws even more. But in recognition of the huge ...

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