The Australian Consulate in Auckland has been stormed by NZ protestors disgusted by Australia’s treatment of NZers at Christmas Island. The protest was organised on TDB this week.
The manner in which NZ citizens have been treated with such contempt, as Brian Rudman points out…
The comparison with Paremoremo implies the people held against their will on Christmas Island are convicted and sentenced prisoners. They’re not. They’re there because of visa issues. The majority are desperate boat people, refugees fleeing war and persecution.
Others, like the New Zealand contingent, are caught by retrospective visa law changes.
The inhumane policy the Australians have adopted of shipping these people to holding pens on remote Christmas Island, 2650 km northwest of Perth, is an outrage.
To me, Campbell Island has always seemed to be at the ends of the earth, yet it is only 700km south of Bluff. Christmas Island is more than three times that distance from Perth. From there, these captives are expected to extricate themselves, without the support of family or lawyers.
…this is extreme action using anti-terror laws against domestic targets. If Australia wants to be a serious contender for the UN Human Rights Council then it can’t abuse human rights in the way they are.
Protestors stormed the Consulate (their intelligence hadn’t picked up on this protest occurring) once it became clear only a last minute police presence had been arranged. Once inside protestors only agreed to leave once their letter to the Australian PM was taken by Consulate staff.
How come you fail to mention there were only 30 protestors?
Where you watching?
Only 30? Thirty protesters is a damn good number at short notice on a difficult, easily misrepresented issue such as this. Australia has only had 2 “terror incidents” one a mentally unstable individual the other kind of contrived by the security forces yet they use these to justify their inhuman treatment of people.
good!
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