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Thursday, July 28, 2005

Court undermines key immigration law.

Court undermines key immigration law.:

"The Federal Court has ruled that the Australian Government cannot deport people who are applying for renewal of their temporary protection visas (TPV) unless it can be proved the country of origin is safe."

Today the federal government allowed families with children out of detention and it has been a big surprise for us all. It has not been easy for reporters to get information and some families don't yet have a house and organisations are working on it. Then we get this federal court ruling that people cannot be deported unless the government can prove the country they will be sent back to is safe for them. In the spirit of you get what you accept, our federal court is saying it no longer accepts that Australia will put people lives in danger by seding them back to somewhere unsafe. Peter Qasim who was released a while back could be sent back because India didn't accept him and he wasn't allowed back into Afghanistan where he had said he came from and he ended up detained for 7 years because we couldn't resolve it. The government doesn't appear to be happy with the federal court's decision. The federal government has been elected to represent its people. Do we think it's a fair ruling by the court? I do. I should hate to be sent back to a place where I was in danger. I would want someone to grant me a safe haven.

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