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[Link] Former Australian foreign minister features in UK video promoting Britain’s ‘new plan for immigration’
Read: 18/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
The former Australian foreign minister Alexander Downer has appeared front-and-centre of a UK Home Office video promoting the British government’s controversial “new plan for immigration” which includes sending asylum seekers to Rwanda.
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[Link] Maya Assad's family has been stateless for generations, but that could soon change
Read: 10/4/2022 www.abc.net.au
For more than a year the engineer and her businessman husband had been jobless, as the economy in the country in which she was born and raised, Lebanon, imploded.
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[Link] ‘Thought About Going Back to Peru?’ – Council Asks Family in UK Since 2004
Read: 14/12/2021 www.vice.com
According to an audio recording from the 22nd of November obtained by VICE World News, a housing officer from the Labour-run Southwark council asks the woman, “Have you thought about going back to Peru?” during a consultation for priority social housing.
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[Link] ‘You may bring shame to your family’: Australia launches campaign to stop seasonal farm workers absconding
Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The Australian government has launched an aggressive campaign to prevent Pacific Islander farm workers from fleeing their jobs as new figures reveal more than 1,000 seasonal pickers absconded in the past year.
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[Link] Cracks in food system driven by year-round hunger for fresh produce begin to show
Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
As you consider your Christmas table – a bowl of cherries, a plump roasted bird and the cream on your pudding, you may spare a thought for the way the food gets to your table. Because three things this week signal cracks in our food production systems.
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[Link] Red Spice Road owners publish open letter about unpaid former staff
Read: 31/10/2021 www.theage.com.au
The owners of popular city restaurant Red Spice Road, which planned to reopen without contacting or paying the staff it sacked in May, have released an open letter claiming there had been a terrible misunderstanding.
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[Link] Trump Got Racist About Haiti on Fox, for Old Times’ Sake
Read: 9/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Former President Donald Trump went on Fox News Thursday night to suggest that it would be a “death wish” to allow Haitian migrants into the U.S.
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[Link] DHS Temporarily Suspends Horse Patrol in Del Rio After ‘Horrific’ Display
Read: 23/9/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Less than a week after videos and images of U.S. border patrol officers on horseback whipping Haitian migrants at the U.S.
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[Link] Peter Dutton to be sole witness in defamation case against refugee activist
Read: 22/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
The defence minister Peter Dutton intends to take the stand in his defamation trial against a refugee activist that begins next month.
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[Link] Students, holiday visas putting pressure on wages: RBA
Read: 17/8/2021 www.theage.com.au
The Reserve Bank’s own economics research department identified students, holiday makers and the partners of people brought into the country on skilled migrant visas as reasons for Australia’s sluggish wages growth ahead of the coronavirus pandemic.
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[Link] While Delta spreads, Republicans deflect and resort to Trump demagoguery
Read: 9/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
As America reaches the milestone of 70% of adults with at least one dose of a vaccine, the highly contagious Delta variant is surging. Public health officials are trying to keep the focus on the urgent need for more vaccinations.
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[Link] Why isn't the census translated into languages other than English?
Read: 9/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Back in Shanghai, Xueli Zhao was a hospital doctor. Now living alone in a public housing flat in Melbourne's inner-east, 84-year-old Dr Zhao relies heavily on her children to communicate with various authorities as she is lacking English language skills.
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[Link] DACA: Joe Biden Pledges to Fight for Program after Judge Rules Against It
Read: 30/7/2021 www.teenvogue.com
The legal fight over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program continues. The Obama-era policy has provided hundreds of thousands of migrant Dreamers with legal protections against deportation.
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