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Letters: Detention centre an insult to John Curtin
Date: 29/01/2002
John Curtin, by all accounts, was a man of humility and compassion who showed
great leadership during World War II. How galling to
hear of the Curtin Detention Centre. Could its name be changed to
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Letters: Let us hear the asylum seekers tell their stories
Date: 26/01/2002
We, the undersigned Sisters of St Joseph of the NSW Province, wish to voice our
extreme disquiet concerning asylum seekers. We
believe that the practice of indiscriminate and open-ended
The Sydney Morning Herald
Letters: Ruddock's concentration camps for kids
Date: 22/01/2002
If children were in the care of a parent who left them exposed to violence and
did not provide adequate education or a place for safe play
and development, we would remove those children and consider
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Letters
January 12, 2002
Centres open to scrutiny
A number of points in Elfy Suchet's letter (Public must see behind the wire,
Herald, January 7) require correction. Far from being
censored, Australia's detention centres are subject to extensive scrutiny with
visits by
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Letters:
Date: 10/01/2002
When are we going to avail ourselves of the wisdom and experience being offered
by Aboriginal people like Bill Lord (Letters, January 8)
to solve our nation's problems? It's embarrassing that Mr Lord even has to ask
permission of our
The Sydney Morning Herald
Letters:
Date: 08/01/2002
Cricket's black history
Regarding Peter Roebuck's article on Justin Ontong (Herald, January 3), it was
an excellent piece and very well written. But I am sorry
to say that he is plainly ignorant of our history when he says everyone agrees
The Sydney Morning Herald
Letters
5 December, 2001
The Man down, not out
Anthony Mundine, you have done Australia and yourself proud, don't let the
knockers get you down. Get up and come back even harder
- the victory will be even sweeter.
Jonathon Purbrick, Centennial Park, December 4.
[Happy birthday Mohammed! Trudy]
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Letters
November 10, 2001
There is a way to make it clear to Howard and Beazley that not all Australians
agree with their stance on refugees. You can still have a
say and ensure that your vote does count. As long as you have correctly
The Sydney Morning Herald
October 31, 2001
Letters
Accepting the past
Noel Pearson, rejecting an apology from the nation to Aboriginal people, is
absolutely right in comparing it with a coat of '70s purple
paint on a house full of white ants (Herald, October 26).
The facts are that Australia
The Sydney Morning Herald
Letters:
Date: 30/10/2001
Some families matter more than others
Am I mistaken? Am I misreading the papers? Did I misunderstand John Howard's
stated claim to support families? Is it true that refugees
who have three-year protection visas can never have family reunion
The Sydney Morning Herald
October 26, 2001
Letters
From Pacific solution to final solution?
Amid the distressing news of the drowning of some 300 boat people on Friday
was the report that 24 of them had already been granted refugee status by the
UNHCR. Would it be unreasonable to conclude
The Sydney Morning Herald
Letters
October 22, 2001
Thank you, Mr Howard and Mr Beazley, for saving Australia from the dark-skinned,
non-Christian invaders who would have overrun
this country and changed it forever. Gone would have been our tolerance, our
idea of a fair go, our support of the
The Sydney Morning Herald
Letters: How many kilojoules in a recipe for disaster?
Date: 15/10/2001
We hear that the aged King of Afghanistan, deposed in 1973, is to be recycled as
a peacemaking figurehead. It's very heartening to see
the British have just begun a third century of political
The Sydney Morning Herald
Letters: After tiny islands and gunfire, what next?
Date: 13/10/2001
I don't believe it. First, we talk New Zealand into accepting refugees. Then we
talk to, and pay, tiny Nauru to take two more groups of
refugees. Now, despite trying to ward off more with gunfire, we
The Sydney Morning Herald
October 5, 2001
Letters
Don't tar all Muslims with the same brush
I am thoroughly sick and tired of hearing of the nastiness being forced upon
this world by a group of people termed Muslims, as if people
meeting this description were a homogenous group with no
The Sydney Morning Herald
Letters
Sep 27, 2001
No hard evidence
Keith Windschuttle's search for evidence of Aboriginal killings is bound to be
difficult due to the self-evident lack of solid evidence of a
kind that he finds acceptable (Herald, September 22).
Aboriginal oral history may be
The Sydney Morning Herald
September 18, 2001
Letters
To all my Australian friends: my mother is Christian and my father is Muslim. I
come from Sarajevo, a town where these (and other)
faiths co-existed peacefully. Our society was very similar to Australian society
- it was multicultural and we
The Sydney Morning Herald
Letters
September 7, 2001
Judiciary is not the fount of all wisdom
It is a bit rich that Justice Mary Gaudron accuses the Attorney-General, who
granted a fiat to the Catholic Church to intervene in the IVF
case before the High Court, as close to an abuse of process
These seemed pretty supportive of asylum seekers Trudy. Is this an edited
list of letters?
Liam
on 4/9/01 12:01 AM, Trudy Bray at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Letters: Skipper heard mayday - so should Australia
For those who wonder why migrants would condemn asylum seekers one needs to
understand the position in which migrants to Australia find themselves. For a
migrant (other than those who are white and speak English) Australia is, on the
whole, a very unaccepting place. Differences are not allowed to
This particular time it was. I thought it was pretty clear - they don't publish
them that way. :-)
Trudy
Liam wrote:
These seemed pretty supportive of asylum seekers Trudy. Is this an edited
list of letters?
Liam
on 4/9/01 12:01 AM, Trudy Bray at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The
The Sydney Morning Herald
Letters: Skipper heard mayday - so should Australia
Date: 04/09/2001
In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, 3,200 kilometres from Panama (during our
19,300-kilometre voyage from England to Australia by
sailing boat), my wife, two teenage daughters and I had the great
The Sydney Morning Herald
Letters
August 31, 2001
Su Carter mentions the SS St Louis incident (Letters, August 29). It reminded me
of a recent visit to Washington D.C. where I attended
the Holocaust Museum. Among many solemn reminders of mankind's inhumanity was a
letter to the Australian
The Sydney Morning Herald
August 17, 2001
Letters
What a funny mob we are. We howl with righteous anger at a murderous regime
which would execute people for promoting
unacceptable religious beliefs. When its desperate citizens flee that same
murderous regime, we put them in jail.
Cara Minns,
The Sydney Morning Herald
Letters: Whatever happened to compassion?
Date: 16/08/2001
What has happened to fairness and decency in this country? An escapee's family
from Villawood is deported as a retaliatory act of
revenge. The parents of a traumatised six-year-old boy are blamed by the
The Sydney Morning Herald
Letters: Compassion for whales but not refugees
Date: 15/08/2001
When a dog is mistreated, the RSPCA is called. Hundreds of concerned Australians
rush to help stranded whales. A six-year-old Iraqi
asylum seeker slips silently towards death through post-traumatic
The Sydney Morning Herald
Letters
August 15, 2001
Conservation first, then land rights
NSW has a maze of complex legislation designed to transfer public land to the
ownership of Aboriginal organisations. Although I support
economic compensation for the Aboriginal community, I cannot support it
Interesting to see what kind of people the Right attracts ... Trudy
The Sydney Morning Herald
Letters: We're living in a free land ... free to go without
Date: 12/07/2001
Tony Abbott's simplistic comments on the working poor and freedom reminded me of
a verse I once heard: Australia is a free
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The Sydney Morning Herald
12/03/2001
Letters
A concerted effort to distort
The Sydney Morning Herald
June 22, 2001
Letters: More care needed when criticising Aboriginal leaders
Date: 22/06/2001
Your newspaper should not have published the rape allegations concerning Geoff
Clark. No person has ever been accused of criminal
activity in a reputable publication where
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The Sydney Morning Herald
June 21, 2001
Letters
Abuse must end before we can all reconcile
Danna Vale has stirred the pot with her criticism of Aboriginal leaders,
specifically Geoff Clark and Pat O'Shane
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