Bloody Boat People!

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http://www.ntnews.com.au/news/national/man-on-hunger-strike-agrees-to-take-fluids/story-fnjbnvyj-1227293759304


THE government has vowed it won't bow to emotional blackmail and will send an unsuccessful Iranian asylum seeker home now that his hunger strike has ended. 
 
IMMIGRATION Minister Peter Dutton said Saeed Hassanloo had taken some food and fluids overnight and his hunger strike was over.
He's now accepting medical assistance in a Perth hospital.
Mr Hassanloo, 25, claims he would face persecution in Iran for converting to Christianity.

He has spent four and a half years in immigration detention, refusing food for the last 44 days in protest at his detention and likely forced return.
Mr Dutton said advice to him was that it was actually 35 days.

"The difficulty for me is that if you give yourself in to what is essentially emotional blackmail ... the clear advice from my department is that I would have hundreds or thousands of people go on hunger strikes tomorrow," Mr Dutton told ABC radio on Tuesday.

"We can't allow the boats to start up again which they would do if we settled people that don't have a legitimate claim." Mr Dutton said his department had advised very strongly that Mr Hassanloo's case had been fully examined and his claim for protection could not be substantiated.
The government would now do what it could to assist him return to Iran, though that would depend on medical advice.
"We have provided support to many other people in the past where they have been repatriated back to Iran and other countries," he said.


Greens immigration spokesperson Sarah Hanson-Young called on Mr Dutton to review the man's case.
"The minister can't just shirk responsibility for this," she told reporters in Adelaide. The Refugee Action Coalition said it wanted Mr Hassanloo and all other Iranians held in indefinite detention to be released.

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Iranian asylum seekers found not be refugees should go back to Iran, Prime Minister Tony Abbott says.But Iran has been unwilling to accept reluctant returnees, with Foreign Minister Julie Bishop to seek to persuade Tehran to change its policy when she visits next week.

More than 10,000 Iranian asylum seekers travelled by boat to Australia in the period 2010-13.Those found not to be refugees have proved unwilling to return, with Australia unable to enforce their departure in the face of the Iranian government reluctance to have them back.That contrasts with large numbers of Sri Lankans involuntarily repatriated.


Some 7000 Iranians remain in the community on bridging visas while others are in immigration detention, many on Manus Island.Mr Abbott said the government was dealing with the Labor legacy of more than 50,000 illegal boat arrivals.He said some would be found to be refugees.

'Some of them won't, and it is important that those found not to be refugees go home and this is where we will be talking to the Iranian government about taking back people who are Iranian citizens because they deserve to be in Iran,' he told reporters in Sydney. 'Those who are not found to be refugees should go back to their home country. If their home country is Iran, that's where they belong.


'Most of the Iranian are unlikely to be granted asylum. Former Labor foreign minister Bob Carr branded them as economic refugees fleeing the impact of western sanctions, not political persecution.Opposition Leader Bill Shorten backed the principle of repatriating those found not be refugees.'We will wait and see what Julie Bishop produces in her talks with Iran.


We want to see the detail,' he told reporters in Melbourne.Mr Shorten said any arrangement needed to be consistent with international obligations, with asylum seekers afforded due process and their claims properly assessed.

'But in the event they are found not to be refugees, then they should be supported to go home as soon as possible.'Greens immigration spokeswoman Sarah Hanson-Young said this would place the lives of men, women and children at high risk.

'What kind of guarantees will the Australian government get to ensure that people sent back to Iran are looked after and kept safe,' she told reporters in Adelaide.'I fear there's really no guarantees that could be made, and even so you have got to question whether the Australian government cares that much about them.

I hope they all get sent back. Weather the Iranian government likes it or not, we should rent a cargo ship and just drop them all there.

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A RIOT that erupted at Wickham Point Wednesday afternoon has turned into a "standoff" between asylum seekers and Serco guards. 
 
Reports from inside the compound are that at least 20 detainees started self harming after learning a family with a young child and a five-month pregnant woman were due to be sent to Nauru in the early hours of Thursday morning.

The riot, which was believed to be contained to the block that houses families, has now spread to involve all four compounds, according to reports from inside the centre.

On Tuesday, three asylum seekers attempted suicide, including the pregnant woman.

Darwin Asylum Seekers Support and Advocacy Network spokesman Ben Pynt said everyone was sitting outside protesting the move.


"They fear further abuse, they fear conditions of detention, lack of water, lack of privacy and just the poor environmental conditions as well and finally they don't want to be at Nauru," he said.

The fence, doors and rubbish bins have been damaged.

NT Police have sent members from the Metropolitan Patrol Group (MPG) and the Dog squad to the detention centre to deal with the issue.

Police can be seen patrolling the fence line and the road into Wickham Point has been blocked off.

Tensions have been building at Wickham Point following cuts to medical services, activities staff and more frequent transfers to offshore detention centres including Nauru and Manus Island.

Tuesday marked the third suicide attempt in three weeks for another woman who fears being sent back to Nauru.

Mr Pynt said he had spoken to the Department of Immigration regarding the woman's mental health and recommended she be transferred to a mental health facility.

The woman is still at Wickham Point.



Also on Tuesday, an elderly woman suffered a suspected heart attack but because it happened after 5pm and the medical centre is longer staffed after hours she had to wait one hour for an ambulance to arrive.

The Department of Immigration and Border Control has not commented on the incident only to take to Twitter to say police were attending and that media reports of a riot were "incorrect" instead calling it a "disturbance".


Self harm is just bollocks emotional blackmail!

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A GROUP of pregnant asylum seekers are threatening to burn Wickham Point detention centre down, according to reports from inside the compound. 
 
Earlier this afternoon, a number of asylum seekers had taken to the roof and were threatening to jump.

A family with a three-month old baby had been removed from the compound for transfer earlier today but have now been returned, in what is believed to have been an effort to stop the protests.

It is now believed the family, as well as a pregnant woman, will no longer be transferred.

However there is still a group of asylum seekers due to be transferred tonight.
One of the men due to be transferred has lodged a Human Rights Commission complaint.

An ambulance and three police vehicles have just left the detention centre, heading towards Darwin.

Two visitors, who were scheduled to visit asylum seekers, witnessed a group of 15 police officers and two ambulances at the centre.

The visitors were refused entry.

Federal Immigration Minister Peter Dutton refuted that there were plans to send a pregnant asylum seeker to Nauru and that a riot had occured on Wednesday in The Australian today.

More information as it comes.

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PARAMEDICS have given emergency medical attention to almost 40 asylum seekers at the Wickham Point detention centre this month alone. 
 
Paramedics say ambulance numbers in Darwin are already well below national standards but an increase in callouts to the detention centre is making the gap wider.

St John NT director of ambulances Michael McKay refused to tell the NT News how long ambulances had spent at the centre in the past two weeks but did confirm paramedics had a larger workload as a result of an increase in callouts to the facility recently.

However, figures obtained from paramedics show in the past four weeks crews have seen 38 patients at the centre and transported 30 of those ­patients to the Royal Darwin Hospital.

One paramedic said things were getting "ridiculous".

"We can't meet the ­demand," he said.

"The police have been given extra resources to cope with the added pressure but we haven't."

The paramedic said last week's rioting saw ambulances sent there on standby, meaning crews were called in on overtime to help fill the gap.

A transfer of asylum seekers from Wickham Point to Nauru sparked rioting on Wednesday and Thursday last week. Asylum seeker advocates reported that at least 25 detainees started self harming after learning that a family with a young child and a five-months pregnant woman were due to be sent to Nauru.

Mr McKay referred questions about ambulance callouts to Wickham Point to the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, who were unable to provide a response before deadline.

St John chief executive Ross Coburn told the NT News last week that ambulance numbers did not meet the "rule of thumb" of one crew per 20,000 people.

Currently, there is only one crew for every 35,000 people.

Mr Coburn said the service – which was run privately but funded by the NT Government – was in constant negotiations about its resources.

Mr Coburn said most ambulance services around the country were under pressure.

He said the Darwin station had resorted to pulling people from management to backfill when an ambulance was called to the outer Darwin regions.

Great to see the Tax $ at work! Great to see our community suffer because those bloody "free loaders" are taking up our resources.

Who'd want to be an Ambo in the NT? Heaps of them quit due to Coon tantrum problems as it is!

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AN Iranian asylum seeker assaulted another detainee over a snide comment and flew into a rage – breaking a window – when authorities left his private documents lying around the detention centre mess hall. 
 
The man faced a maximum penalty of a $20,400 fine or two years in prison for Commonwealth property damage.

Darwin Magistrate Tanya Fong Lim declined to convict him due to the authorities' negligence in allowing his ­private life to become public among other detainees at Wickham Point detention ­centre.

"It is not acceptable," she said. "As an immigration detainee you're entitled to privacy and, knowing your situation, authorities ought to have been more careful."

The man, 29 – whose name is suppressed – was scared to hold his son and feared his family would break up when he was diagnosed with hepatitis C just after arriving in Australia in July 2013.

The court heard two of his brothers had died of jaundice and the diagnosis triggered extreme anxiety.

The court heard an "incident" had resulted in a domestic violence order against him.

The Immigration Department cut off the man's contact with his wife and toddler and he was shuffled between ­Darwin and Christmas Island for months.

He attempted self harm. Defence lawyer Sheetal Balakrishnan said her client was "clearly a man on edge".

"He felt self-hatred at his decision to come to Australia and inadequate because he can't do anything for his family," she said.

"It's a volatile situation he has no control over. He regrets what he has done."

Ms Balakrishnan said he asked Immigration not to bring his son to one visit because "the sun was too hot" but the truth was he found it too painful seeing the boy in the belief his wife wanted a divorce. He was ashamed of the request, revealed in the documents that other detainees had read in the mess hall on November 28, 2014.

The man threw a table and a condiment tray, smashed a window five times with a chair and turned over dining tables.

He headbutted a fire control panel and cracked the plastic. Two days before, he shirtcollared a man in the pool room after the victim told him: "This is Australia, you have to wait your turn."

The man screamed at the victim: "F--- Australia ... you are like a hair on my penis."

Ms Fong Lim told the defendant: "Everybody in detention is under pressure.

"We expect detainees to have empathy for how each other feels."

She convicted him for the assault and imposed a 12- month $1000 good behaviour bond on each offence.


Sounds like a proper gentleman! Who wants this hot headed ,disease infested galoot coming to Australia to be a neighbour!?