You can read her full response here.ĭepending on how you look at it, all the panellists are broadly correct. Jane McAdam said that her comment was intended to clarify the breakdown of the figures quoted by Shen Narayanasamy, “specifically that the 200,000 figure mentioned by Jim and Shen referred (roughly) to the number of new permanent migrants each year, and that the remaining 600,000 in Shen’s figure were temporary visas”. Jim Molan said it was “important to understand the nature of these 800,000 visas and what relevance they have to a discussion on how generous we are to refugees”. Her figure of 800,000 included visas issued under categories such as family reunion, skilled workers, a special eligibility category, humanitarian visas issued to refugees, student visas, 457 temporary workers visas and 417 working holiday visas. Shen Narayanasamy referred to a recent speech she had given. The Conversation asked the three panellists for sources and comment to support their statements.
Is it 200,000 or 800,000? How many are permanent and how many are temporary? On Q&A, panellists duelled over the numbers of migrants Australia takes a year. – The architect of Australia’s Sovereign Borders strategy, retired general Jim Molan, speaking with GetUp’s Shen Narayanasamy, director of UNSW’s Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law Professor Jane McAdam and host Tony Jones on Q&A, October 10, 2016. … TONY JONES: The fact checkers are going to be all over this one. ‘This book should be read by all Australians concerned about the inhumanity demonstrated by successive federal governments when dealing with refugees seeking our protection.JANE MCADAM: Permanent. TheĬrucial information and depth of understanding this book offers has never been Indefinitely on Manus Island and Nauru, have been broken as a result. People seeking asylum, especially those held Years blatantly contravene international law –obligations that Australia has Protection space available to refugees in the Asia-Pacific region.Īnd Chong trace the ways in which draconian domestic laws enacted over recent Show greater global leadership on refugee issues, so as to expand the Human rights-based protection framework might look like and how Australia could Policies on offshore processing, detention, boat turnbacks and so on violateĪustralia’s obligations under international law. What rights refugees have under international law, and whether Australia’s Clearly and carefully, they explain who a refugee is, Now, Refugee Rights and Policy Wrongs provides a wholly updated account of Australian
Hardened since their previous bestselling book was published five years ago. McAdam and Fiona Chong find that Australia’s policies towards refugees have Government seeks to ‘stop the boats’ whatever the cost, be it human, economic,
Refugees is dominated by scare-mongering and political point-scoring. Seek asylum under international law, but public discourse in Australia about
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