This week's stories: Breaking And Entering to be Legalised...The 'I'd
Quite Like A Holiday In The Pacific' Solution...It's Not Assault When
Your Boss Does It...No Connection Between Refugees, and Terrorists
Trying to Enter Australia...Quote of the week.
Police will have the power to secretly break into people's homes and
cars in order to search them, under new laws proposed by Victorian
Premier Steve Bracks.
(The Age, November 23).
The government's 'Pacific Solution' to refugees has cost 34 times its
budget.
The Department of Immigration spent $71.4 million on consultants in the
12 months to June 30, up from $2.1 million the previous year.
Prime Minister John Howard's hardline stance on asylum seekers is now
the single expense in terms of hiring private consultants.
Immigration shot from the smallest spender on consultancies in 2000-01
to the biggest spender last year.
Construction of the new asylum seeker processing centre on Christmas
Island will cost $153.7 million, as well as operating costs of $34.4
million over four years.
(Courier-Mail, November 18).
No asylum seeker has been rejected for entry into Australia on 'security
grounds' (that is, because of links to terrorist groups).
(Sydney Morning Herald, November 18).
An employer who burned an employee with a cigarette and an aerosol can
has been fined only $8000.
Kenneth Joachim Wosgein, owner of Campbellfield company All About
Sheetmetal, pleaded guilty in Broadmeadows Magistrates Court of "failing
to provide a safe system of work and adequate supervision of employees",
after he attacked and racially abused one of his workers over a period
of several months.
The worker - who has not been named - said he was called a wog or a
chocolate frog and punched and burnt with cigarette butts. Mr Wosgein
admitted to burning the worker with a cigarette and to burning his
tracksuit pants with an aerosol can.
(Courier-Mail, November 19).
Quote of the week:
"Talking with a child-care consultant once, I mentioned an American
child psychologist, Ron Lally, whose research showed that the overall
size of a creche matters. For children 'small is beautiful'. She burst
out 'but Anne, those small centres are the least economic'".
Anne Manne, journalist, writing in the Age, November 23.
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