Comments on: Some good news! Migration Minister responds positively to public and parliamentary concerns

By: Charging people for locking them up - Andrew Bartlett

Charging people for locking them up - Andrew Bartlett — Mon, 25 May 2009 02:53:00 +0000

...] the time of the Minister’s announcement, I wrote that “making changes in this area still invites some political risk, although the fact that (the [...

By: Ian Rogers

Ian Rogers — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:46:41 +0000

Obviously the Immigration Minister and the Finance Minister are not in sync, since Finance has been busy bankrupting people (and explaining in writing that there were no moral grounds for annulling the detention debts) while Immigration was preparing this legislation. Remarkably, Finance under the Rudd government seems to have had more enthusiasm for collecting detention debts (and thereby ruining lives that were just recovering from the trauma of detention) than the previous government

By: Glad tidings for asylum seekers « A possie in Aussie

Glad tidings for asylum seekers « A possie in Aussie — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 04:23:15 +0000

...] Andrew Bartlett says ‘congratulations must go to Minister Evans’ for this long awaited and humane decision: [...

By: Some good news! Migration Minister responds positively to public and parliamentary concerns

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:28:15 +0000

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