**Please Circulate Widely**
Hello everyone,
Sign up the petition for Sri Lankan asylum seekers in Indonesia.
As you notice the Australian government has neglected the recent Sri Lankan boat arrivals and trying to send them back to their Sri Lanka. RISE (riserefugee.org) has written a petition to bring the asylum seekers back to the Australian.
Circle this email around with attached document and get people to sign up
the petition. Ask everyone to join together to bring the war victim to
Australia.
Follow the link and sign up
http://riserefugee.org/the-urgent-situation-of-255-sri-lankan-asylum-seekers-in-indonesia/
Also, please print out the document and get your friends, families and
neighbors and workmates to sign up the petition.
Post the petition to
House Of Representatives
P.O.Box 6021
Parliament House
Canberra
ACT 2600
For more information go to: http://riserefugee.org
Showing posts with label White Australia Policy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label White Australia Policy. Show all posts
8/9/09
10/11/07
Australian Citizanshit test
See more on http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/story/australian-citizanshit-test-11-october-melbourne
The Australian citizenship test is:
A) played on boxing day
B) a cynical attempt by the Australian government to show they can
filter out international terrorists and not workers with low level
English
C) free with every pot and parma
D) a good idea
Australia*s first Prime Minister Edmund Barton famously said:
A) "The doctrine of the equality of man was never intended to apply to
the equality of the Englishman and the Chinaman"
B) *Why must they insist on calling me Toby Tosspot!*
C) *I just don*t know about letting Queensland join*
D) *You know what I think Australia needs? Big things. Heaps and
heaps of big things * I mean I*m talking giant prawns and sheep and
bananas and rocking horses* ah ha gentlemen*
The past two hundred years of Australia*s history are:
A) a specialised narrative that if told right gets you on the ABC
board
B) an unfinished war
C) super chillaxed, like one big bar-b-que
D) not something we really need to think about
Immigration minister Kevin Andrews comments about cutting African
refugee numbers was:
A) A sensitive well measured response to the death of a young man
B) Based on the UN refugee agency advice
C) An unusual example of the Liberals using race politics in the lead
up to the election
D) Strange because we don*t let Africans into Oztralia* do we?
Apartheid was first introduced in:
A) Australia with the Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the
Sale of Opium Act 1897 (Qld)
B) South Africa in 1913 with the Land Act
C) 2005 Cronulla
D) 2007 Northern Territory
The 72 Tamil and 7 Burmese Refugees currently incarcerated on Nauru
show that:
A) We have come a long way since Edmund Barton
B) We are a compassionate and flexible county,
C) It helps to be a white Zimbabwean farmer if you*re seeking asylum
in Australia
D) Anybody want some zinc cream?
An Alliance for Civil Disobedience Coordination (AC/DC) initiative
High Court to be told HREOC responsible for Kevin Andrew's inciting racially motivated murder
To busy conspiring with and covering up Human Rights violations by John Howard and Philip Ruddock, HREOC President John von Doussa has given the the green light to John Howard's White Australia Policy 
Community's anger spills over
Dan Oakes and Dewi Cooke
October 11, 2007
October 11, 2007
"Bring my brother back," Liep Gony's younger
sister Michelle, centre, cries at his funeral yesterday.
sister Michelle, centre, cries at his funeral yesterday.
Photo: Angela Wylie
FURY over Kevin Andrews' views on Sudanese immigrants has boiled over,
with community members lashing out at the Immigration Minister after
another violent attack on a Sudanese youth in Melbourne.
More than a week after Mr Andrews questioned the ability of Sudanese people
to integrate in Australia — and cited this as a reason for cutting the
African refugee intake — he has been accused of sparking racial
hostility towards Sudanese migrants.
Anger erupted on two fronts in Melbourne yesterday. In the west, where a Sudanese-born youth was viciously attacked by a gang on Tuesday, the boy and members of his family said they believed his attackers were influenced by the minister's remarks.
And in the south-east, where murdered teenager Liep Gony was farewelled in a harrowing funeral service, family members and a community leader demanded an apology from the
minister.
The president of Dandenong's Sudanese Community Association of Australia, Samuel Kuot, said other groups in Melbourne's south-east were turning against his people and they deserved an apology from Mr Andrews.
Speaking outside the Dandenong church where Liep Gony's funeral was held, Mr Kuot said Sudanese in Melbourne now felt unsafe after being singled out.
"The Sudanese community as well as the African community expect an apology from the minister," he said. "The community is angry. Many people are crying and emotional."
As Mr Gony was farewelled in Dandenong, police in the western suburbs yesterday appealed for witnesses to the bashing in Melton on Tuesday of 17-year-old Ajang Gor.
The Sudanese-born high school student was riding his bike home from his job at a fast-food restaurant with his brother at 4pm when he was set on by four men, who shouted racial slurs, then punched and kicked him and hit him with a bottle.
The attackers stole his wallet and phone, then sent racist text messages and made abusive phone calls to Ajang's brother, cousins and friends.
The messages included references to "black dogs" and "jigaboos", and having "knocked da f--- out of" Ajang.
Ajang, who fled Sudan with his four brothers when he was nine and spent seven years in a Kenyan refugee camp before coming to Australia, has lived in Melton for 10 months. He said he had always felt secure in the area until Tuesday.
Speaking yesterday after his release from Sunshine Hospital — where he was treated for cuts and bruises to his head and an arm — Ajang said he believed Mr Andrews' comments had created a climate in which such attacks could occur. "It's been said that we Sudanese are
misbehaving and that there is a higher rate of crime, but I'm not sure if all these accusations are right," he said.
Protesters angry over govt immigration policies
way to go AC/DC crew chur
Protesters have gathered outside a Melbourne hotel where Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews is speaking today.
They are demonstrating against the new Australian Citizenship Test and the Government's immigration policy.
Last week Kevin Andrews stated a failure of Africans to assimilate to Australian society was the reason behind the cut in the intake of African refugees.
Sudanese refugee David Vincent has daubed his face with white zinc cream in protest.
He says the Government only wants white migrants.
"I'm trying to understand. (I) thought maybe I colour my skin white so that maybe that would please Kevin Andrews to see that I am trying so hard to intergrate in to Australia," he said.
http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/11/2056475.htm?section=justin
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