The United Nations Refugee Conventions allows a person to be defined as a refugee only if they are outside their country of nationality or their usual country of residence and is unable or unwilling to return or to seek the protection of that country due to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion is not a war criminal and has not committed any serious non-political crimes or acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations. This treaty has increased the amount of migrants come to Australia and has also increased our population, though when John Howard introduced the Pacific solution, the amount of refugees coming to Australia dropped drastically. Signing the United Nations Refugee convention with that this treaty when signed made our country look good in its global community. Migration has changed along the many years from the first settlement to the White Australia policy , from that to multiculturalism to the United Nations refugee convention to now. All those years, all those treaties and laws make what we as a country are today, a country full of culture and traditions from all different countries
Changes to Asylum Seeker Policies and Capacity to Change During the early 1990s, asylum seekers from Cambodia began to arrive in Australia in large numbers. In response, the government of Paul Keating instituted a policy known as mandatory detention aimed at deterring refugees. Under mandatory detention, anyone who enters the Australian migration zone without a visa is placed in a holding facility while security and health checks are performed. Additionally, the validity of the person's claim to asylum is assessed by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship. Following the Tampa Affair, the Commonwealth Migration Act (1958) was amended by Howard's government in September 2001.
The Australian Human Rights Commission held inquires into areas of discrimination and human rights; recommendations are made to the government for the removal of discrimination and legislation which doesn’t fulfil with UN human rights treaties. Non-legal responses such as Lobbying by NSW Gay and Lesbian rights lobby argues that the legally recognised institution of marriage shouldn’t exclude same sex couples. It’s agenda is to advocate and promote the issue, to an extent this is seen effective as it generally speaks on behalf of same sex couples. Most of the responses to the recognition of same sex relationships are legal responses, changes to the law have recognised same sex relationships as having the same legal standing as heterosexual de facto relationships this is enforced through the Property (Relationships) Act
Asylum Seekers Asylum seekers or Refugees are individuals who flee their own country due to the fear of being persecuted due to their: -race -religion -nationality -membership of a particular social group - Political opinion Australia is obligated to protect the human rights of all refugees who come to Australia regardless of whether they have obtained a visa or not. This is because the Australian Government has is under numerous international treaties which make them obligated to protect and respect refugees human rights. These international treaties are: - International covenant on civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) - International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) - Convention against Torture
According to the UN refugee agency, an illegal immigrant is someone who has moved from one state to another without any legal claim, such as a visa. All of the people on these boats are asylum seekers which means they are complying with Australian law and UN protocol. In the words of our current prime minister Julia Gillard. "For people to say they're anxious about border security doesn't make them intolerant. It certainly doesn't
She therefore was promoter of a unilateral US intervention, since as she claims the situation in the “very heart of Europe” was threatening the security situation in whole Europe, potentially in US, and thus needed a fast and strong reaction. This, however, calls for some polemic, as Bosnia is not Europe's heart, it is rather a small peripheral country with little importance outside its immediate region, the unstable Balkans. As Carpenter suggests, what mattered in Europe, as for the US national interests, was the conduct of the handful of major powers. As long as those states remain at peace with one another there is no credible danger to America's security. Therefore the
Marcia Langton article on The European Construction of Wilderness describes a particular view of the Aboriginal displacement by the English and the claim that they original made to the land under Terra Nullius and the impact of native title cases like Marbo vs Queensland. The expression Terra Nulluis is a Latin word meaning “land belonging to no one person”. This was the regulation that was used to depict a land which has never been subject to the rule of any other authority especially by European Explorers when the occupied land did not live up to European Ideals, it was easier than conquering the land in question. The British used this International law to cement their claim on Australia when it settled here in the 1788.The British were able to achieve this because the native population in the Settlers eyes were less than people, they were not civilized, they had not cultivated the land or created what the British classed as settlements and they observed no real governmental
Because of Britain, we are here today, so is it necessary to just leave Britain? If we were in a crisis-like being in a war, and we were a republic, we wouldn’t receive much help from Britain. Do you think other countries might feel it would be easier to invade Australia, because we’re a new independent country? It defiantly would be. Becoming a republic, citizens of Australia might feel unsafe and leave the country.
The stated goal of this research was not for Western powers to starts using mind control on prisoners; it was to prepare Western soldiers for whatever coercive techniques they might encounter if they were taken hostage. (p.33) 10. Mamdouh Habib, an Australian who was uncarpeted there, has said that ‘Guantanamo Bay is an experiment ....what they experiment is brainwashing’. Indeed, in the testimonies, reports and photographs that have come out of Guantanamo, it is as if the Allan Memorial Institute of the 1950s had been transported to Cuba
She also goes on to discuss the history of the issue in Australia. This article would be useful when writing a paper on compulsory voting, because although the writer makes her views clear, being against compulsory voting, she also thoroughly examines the arguments of those with the opposing viewpoint. Twomey wordily explains that what she believes should matter more is the quality rather than the quantity of votes cast. Having an examination of both arguments for and against compulsory voting as well as its history all in one article make this a very useful