Bloody Boat People!

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http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/national/peter-dutton-insists-the-governments-resolve-on-asylum-seekers-remains-despite-hunger-strikes-on-manus-island/story-fni6ulvf-1227187069998


PETER Dutton has delivered asylum seekers on Manus Island a "clear, strong, determined" message: despite your hunger striking you will never be settled in Australia. 
 
Following days of protest and incidents of self-harm, the new Immigration Minister insisted his "resolve" is the same as Scott Morrison's.



"Our resolve will not be swayed one bit by a change in behaviour," he said, addressing reporters on the Gold Coast.
My message today is very clear, to the transferrees on Manus and in other facilities ... whilst there has been a change of Minister, the absolute resolve of me as the new Minister and of the government is to make sure that for those transferrees, they will never arrive in Australia.

"They will never be settled in Australia."

Mr Dutton said he was "disturbed" by reports of the actions of some within the centre — including cases of self harm.

One asylum seeker is believed to have swallowed razor blades, others are said to have sewn their lips together.

"I want to say to people who are the transferrees ... that regardless of what you might be told by people within the centre, or advocates or people in the broader community, that somehow with a change of minister, that the situation has changed ... or the way in which in government will deal with these matters, is absolutely wrong."

The Minister said the situation in the facility, where a riot last year saw the death of Reza Berati, was "volatile".

"There is support being provided to those who are engaged in self-harm and the government will make sure that we continue to provide the support," he said.

"We're certainly not swaying in our support one bit, we are rock solid behind the PNG government and the work they're doing in the Manus regional centre that hasn't changed."

Mr Dutton said to advocates and "ringleaders" in the centre encouraging misbehaviour, "that information is dead wrong, it is causing trouble."


Good somebody is robust in their ways here! Like? Who wants these queue jumpers? You want wierdos going around stitching their lips  up and eating razors?

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http://www.ntnews.com.au/news/northern-territory/bladin-immigration-detention-centre-closure-to-yield-18m-saving/story-fnk0b1zt-1227233545431


The Bladin Immigration ­Detention Centre will be shut down in April, the Federal Government has pledged. 
 
The so-called "alternative place of detention" facility will be the eleventh closed by the Coalition Government in just over a year. Estimates indicate shuttering the building will save taxpayers $18 million a year in lease costs.

Immigration and Border Protection Minister Peter ­Dutton said Bladin is no longer needed to hold illegal immigrants.

"The site was opened by the Labor Government in June 2013 after the border failures, which saw a massive blowout in illegal maritime arrivals," Mr Dutton said.

"The Coalition Government's success in stopping ­illegal boat arrivals means ­detention facilities like Bladin can now be shut."

Member for Solomon Natasha Griggs said shuttering the detention centre will ­benefit the area.

"The closure of Bladin Point is not only a big financial ­saving to the country but a ­reduction in pressure on the Top End's hospitals and emergency services," she said.

The building will be used to house FIFO workers for the Inpex project.

The illegal maritime arrivals at the facility now will be transferred to other sites, Mr Dutton said, or moved into the community or released on bridging visas if eligible.

The Department will liaise with key stakeholders and suppliers who have had business arrangements with the Bladin facility, a statement said.

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http://www.skynews.com.au/content/skynews/news/national/2015/03/28/asylum-seeker-cuts-own-stomach-at-nt-centre.html

An asylum seeker in detention south of Darwin has reportedly cut her own stomach to avoid being transferred to Nauru.

Several sources told AAP a number of people witnessed the incident at Wickham Point detention centre, south of Darwin, late on

Thursday night before a 3am charter flight to transfer detainees to Nauru and Manus Island.

AAP understands two other women also attempted to harm themselves on Thursday.

Two of the three women were from Iran, and one had been extremely distressed in recent weeks, crying uncontrollably.

The Department of Immigration confirmed on Friday there had been 'a small number of self-harm or attempted self-harm incidents'.

'Those involved are receiving proper and appropriate medical and other support,' it said in a statement.

'It would be inappropriate to go into further detail about the incidents or the individual circumstances of these detainees.'

AAP understands the woman who cut her stomach remains in her room at the centre.

The government remains committed to regional processing and resettlement, and those subject to regional processing would not be resettled in Australia, the department said.

'Antisocial or dangerous behaviour will not prevent people being transferred.'

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http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/03/26/cambodia-supports-australia-refugee-deal-humanitarian-grounds
A spokesman for the Cambodian Secretary of State says Cambodia supported the Abbott government's $40 million refugee resettlement agreement on "humanitarian" grounds and to strengthen ties with Australia.

Phay Siphan told SBS that Australia provided significant assistance to Cambodia and it wanted to do the same.

"Australia is open for Cambodian refugees he said. "We have to pay back something. We don't want to take from Australia."

Under the agreement, refugees on Nauru who volunteer to move to Cambodia will be resettled there by the government. The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has agreed to facilitate the resettlements.

Mr Siphan told SBS that the he understood the plight of refugees and welcomed any who chose to come to Cambodia from Nauru.

"I have experience as a refugee," he said. "Hun Sen, [the] prime minister, he has experience as a refugee. We understand how hard it is."

"They are like animals in camp. They have no nationality. They have no right to move; they have no right to do anything."

He said Australia shouldered a huge burden with refugees and was unfairly criticised over its treatment of them.



Well at least these Gooks are good for something! Actually appreciate our aid and assistance unlike bloody Indonesia!

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http://www.ntnews.com.au/news/northern-territory/increasing-number-of-callouts-to-darwin-detention-centre-puts-pressure-on-nt-ambulance-services/story-fnk0b1zt-1227283528286


AMBULANCES are straining under the pressure of an increased number of call outs to the Wickham Point Immigration Detention Facility following cuts to services, paramedics say. 
 
The cuts to medical services at the facility means there is no longer 24 hour medical care provided at the centre.

The NT News understands a large amounts of call outs to the centre has previously led to Palmerston to being without an ambulance.

The decision has left paramedics asking if funding for extra ambulances will be made available.

A Darwin paramedic told the NT News the services had "gradually been whittled down".

The paramedic said call outs to the facility were often time consuming.

"Our ambulance service is already strained as it is," the ambo said.

"When we get there there is only security personnel to deal with which means we can't get medical notes from the health service in the detention centre.

"All too often there is no translator available and it can be impossible to find out what their medical history is or what medications the patient is taking."

The paramedic said over a year ago an extra ambulance that was funded to run on a half shift basis was cut and the reason given was that with the detention centre offering 24/7 medical care there was no need to keep it running.

"It would be nice if they gave it back now there is no longer those services," he said.

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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.