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Climate Change voices from communities - Australian Cities and towns, generally concentrated near the coast, will be affected by sea-level rise and storms and, in the North, by more intense cyclones. Heat related deaths in Australia's urban centres will become five times more frequent by 2050.
Human Rights Watch: the Anti-Terrorism Bill - Human Rights Watch believes that protecting human rights during counter-terrorist efforts is more than a legal requirement, and integral to the success of the campaign against terrorism itself, Terrorism will not be defeated by military means.
Asylum under Rudd: tough, or just shonky? - Labor is being tougher and more ruthless with asylum seekers than the Howard Government, according to an analysis of decisions made by Immigration Minister Chris Evans, where he rejected 97.6% of intervention applications since coming to power.
Labor chooses John Howard's Excision Zone - 'Refugee advocates have accused the Federal Government of abandoning its softer approach to asylum seekers.' An expose of Labor's ambivalence about John Howard's shocking refugee exclusion zone.
Coal Industry overheats Kevin's Climate - Anna Rose at the 2020 Summit: I found myself in the climate stream with representatives of coal mining companies including Xstrata and Shell, yet not a single person from an environment NGO such as Greenpeace ...
Burnside: Citizens rights and the rule of law - "Personally, I would have preferred to see the [Howard] Government removed because of its lamentable approach to human rights and the rule of law. But perhaps Australia is not ready to embrace such notions: not just yet."
Dear Mr Rudd: Ideas for a Better Australia - During the period of the Howard government, the nation's critical intelligentsia [...] has been, by one means or another, marginalised or silenced. Writers who stood against the predominant neo-liberal, neo-conservative tide now present...
The unthrown kids - All the photographs of the "children overboard" incident in 2001 - leaked to Project SafeCom after the incident: they show gratefulness. They show fathers who are tired, but moved. They show mothers who smile, in deep love for their children and thankfulness for the rescue...
Kevin Rudd's Motion of Apology - The very first motion put by Australia's new Prime Minister under Government Business was the speech to The Motion Of Apology to Australia's Indigenous people. "The time has now come for the nation to turn a new page..."
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2005 Press Clippings

Once again, just like during 2004 (see the page), thanks to the folks at Rural Australians for Refugees, who, while we at Project SafeCom doggedly edited and published our Almost Daily News and Updates since TAMPA in 2001, subscribed, read and noted the online weblinks of those articles, we are now able to bring you all the news we saw below, as one-line links to their original locations.

NOTE: some, or over time, several or many, of the links may be or become outdated. For that we apologize. We're unlikely to find the time to update this page beyond December 2005 in the future.

See also the immigration section in The Age, and in the Sydney Morning Herald for an up-to-date source of news items on asylum seekers and detainees.

December 2005

November 2005

October 2005

September 2005