Indymedia – 9TH of December 2024
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The Albanese Government and ALP Government have recently announced amendments to migration laws that have been met with criticism and rightfully so, as the Albanese Government have introduced these draconian laws:
The Australian Government now has the power: to pay undisclosed third countries to take non-citizens, including recognised refugees with Australian citizen family members, without any safeguards to prevent any harm, detention or return to persecution; to imprison people who will not return to countries where they fear for their lives; to create travel bans on citizens trying to visit Australia for study, business, tourism or to see family, in an effort to pressure their governments into accepting forced returns; to reverse refugees’ protection findings in order to remove them from Australia, and to seize mobile phones and conduct unwarranted searches on people in immigration detention. (Refugee Council of Australia, 2024)
Ian Rintoul, Spokesperson for Refugee Action Coalition NSW and political activist, joins the show to discuss the impacts these laws will have on people in Australia and for many people who are already here.
Federico Fuentes, longtime Latin-America political correspondent, joins the show to provide us with an update, 4 months later, on the presidential elections in Venezuela. President Nicolas Maduro was re-elected to the role in July of this year, but the result was disputed as many news outlets and opposition members provided evidence to show that opposition leader, Edmundo Gonzalez, was clearly successful. President Maduro remains in power, even after the United Nations Human Rights Committee have announced the beginning of their investigation into the situation.
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