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Teuila Fuatai: NZ needs to step up fight against Australia's 501 deportations


Teuila Fuatai: NZ needs to step up fight against Australia's 501 deportations
16 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM
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An Australian deportee at the Ramada hotel MIQ facility in central Auckland on July 14, 2020. Photo / Dean Purcell
An Australian deportee at the Ramada hotel MIQ facility in central Auckland on July 14, 2020. Photo / Dean Purcell
The transtasman punch-downs are likely to worsen.
Currently, there's a piece of proposed legislation before the Australian Senate aimed at increasing visa cancellation powers, specifically under section 501 of the Migration Act.
This part
of the act, used frequently in deportation cases to New Zealand, already enables the responsible minister to cancel visas if they are satisfied the holder does not meet requirements of the "character test". Being sentenced to 12 months or more in prison means you'll fail.

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Open mike 23/12/2020


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The conclusion of the article you cite is that
"…with the spirit of ‘60s utopianism: maybe we should ask not what other countries can do for us, but what we might do for them … And yet – when the alternative is watching with pity and smugness as infection rates rise elsewhere, when nationalism has led us into the binary of winners and losers in a pandemic that affects us all, perhaps that spirit is precisely what we need."
New Zealand will start 2021 with an economic acceleration greater than most other countries in the world. It's a socialist moment because we have been united together in common cause. And it's a conservative moment because we have given up just the minimum degree of temporary freedom in order to gain the greatest liberty.

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Open mike 22/12/2020


This is the latest ride on the merry-go-round of legal shit-fuckery that penalises community groups who dare to face off in opposition to the rape and pillage of the environment. Less than a decade ago, voluntary community organisations were able to apply for Government financed grants, now no longer available, when challenging the likes of Councils, big-moneyed developers, international consortiums and Government agencies in respect of environmental concerns. In almost all but the most frivolous of cases, legal costs were never awarded against community groups but left to lie where they may. This was in the interests of justice being seen to be done in both quasi and full legal proceedings that were being tested by those who were committed to upholding the incrementally unfolding joke of ‘A Clean Green New Zealand’ by their works and deeds. Up and down the country, these communities of voluntary environmental workers and supporters of the notion that we are only caretakers of the land for future generations attempted to mount cases on hard come by donations fund raising efforts and their own knowledge and informational resources that are now regarded as unqualified opinions in hearings, even if they are unpaid witnesses or presenters who are acknowledged experts in their fields. These usually unheralded challengers of 'the system' are rapidly learning that you don’t fuck with rapacious wealth accumulators, Councils, and Government without risking eye-wateringly heavy sanctions and financial penalties. With stuff-all resources, the would-be protectors now not only have to somehow engage expensive lawyers and 'experts' but will be denigrated during hearings by the paid liars who the vested interests can munificently reward, the snide demeaning attitudes of the assembled ‘specialist’ legal teams of the ‘I want brigade’ and usually associated local bodies, various intended beneficiaries of the primary parties and, as in the Coromandel case, the Government, all of who are backed by very deep pockets, often, in part, paid for by the various charges, rates or taxes of the challengers. This could end up a long dissertation of examples and bitter experience from the bottom end of the disenchanted 'protest' chain but no doubt, the shit-fuckery and perversion of environmental legal protection is already sufficiently evident!

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Emergency Housing Standards Urgent


Community Law Centres O Aotearoa (CLCA) is
calling on Government agencies to ensure emergency housing
providers meet basic standards as competing pressures mount
over the Summer holidays.
“Handing over
millions of dollars of taxpayer funding to private providers
without any requirement for a decent level of service and
basic human rights to be adhered to is unacceptable, “says
CLCA CEO Sue Moroney. “It amounts to no care and no
responsibility to protect families when they are at their
most vulnerable.”
Community Law Centres have
supported clients who have been placed into unsafe emergency
housing and others who have been treated unfairly by

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Emergency Housing Standards Urgent – Community Law Centres Aotearoa


Community Law Centres O Aotearoa (CLCA) is calling on Government agencies to ensure emergency housing providers meet basic standards as competing pressures mount over the Summer holidays.
“Handing over millions of dollars of taxpayer funding to private providers without any requirement for a decent level of service and basic human rights to be adhered to is unacceptable, “says CLCA CEO Sue Moroney. “It amounts to no care and no responsibility to protect families when they are at their most vulnerable.”
Community Law Centres have supported clients who have been placed into unsafe emergency housing and others who have been treated unfairly by emergency housing providers.

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Community Scoop » Emergency Housing Standards Urgent


Press Release – Community Law Centres Aotearoa
Community Law Centres O Aotearoa (CLCA) is calling on Government agencies to ensure emergency housing providers meet basic standards as competing pressures mount over the Summer holidays. Handing over millions of dollars of taxpayer funding to private …
Community Law Centres O Aotearoa (CLCA) is calling on Government agencies to ensure emergency housing providers meet basic standards as competing pressures mount over the Summer holidays.
“Handing over millions of dollars of taxpayer funding to private providers without any requirement for a decent level of service and basic human rights to be adhered to is unacceptable, “says CLCA CEO Sue Moroney. “It amounts to no care and no responsibility to protect families when they are at their most vulnerable.”

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Daily review 21/12/2020


Budget 2021 will be delivered on Thursday 20 May, Finance Minister Grant Robertson announced today. “My focus continues to be on making sure spending is targeted at the areas and people that need it the most. “We will manage the books carefully including ensuring we are getting value for money ...
5 days ago
Morena ki a tatau, Tena tatau i nga kaupapa hauora, E tuitui nei i a tatau i tēnei ata, Ka nui te mihi ki a koutou katoa. When we were re-elected with a clear mandate for change, our Government made three promises: To keep New Zealanders safe from COVID-19 To ...

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