Libertarians running OZ?
Matthew X
profrv at nex.net.au
Sun May 16 06:29:23 PDT 1999
http://smh.com.au/articles/2002/08/26/1030053035292.html
Holiday at the Razorwire Hilton - at $130 a day
By Cynthia Banham
August 27 2002
Six months of sleepless nights in a tiny dormitory with four men. A worn
mattress with small blankets. Guards shining a torch in his face every
half-hour.
Shahid Qureshi thought he had seen it all when he emerged from Melbourne's
Maribyrnong detention centre last September. But the 27-year-old
Pakistani's biggest surprise was when the Federal Government presented him
with an accommodation bill for $26,460.
For this amount - about $130 a night - he had also endured undercooked
meals, a ban on sex, two-hour queues for a shower, broken toilets, and one
towel for the entire detention period.
Just $30 more a night secures a room at the Novotel, Darling Harbour, while
a little over $100 more pays for an executive suite at the Hilton.
Mr Qureshi, who is on a bridging visa and has been prohibited from working
while he awaits an appeal against rejection of his application for refugee
status, has no means of paying off the debt.
http://smh.com.au/articles/2002/08/26/1030053035443.html
New overboard claim: 'Navy told us to jump in'
By Anne Calverley and AAP
August 27 2002
Asylum seekers on the boat at the centre of the children overboard affair
were handed life jackets by the navy and told to jump into the sea as their
vessel sank, a trial of three alleged people smugglers has been told.
Iraqi national Abdul Amir Al Moudhaffir told the trial in the Perth
District Court that he and other asylum seekers were plucked from the sea a
short time later by the warship HMAS Adelaide.
The asylum seekers on the boat became notorious after the Federal
Government accused them of throwing their children overboard. The claims
were later found to be false, and the incident has been the subject of a
Senate inquiry.
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