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Bezig met laden... Reluctant rescuers : an exploration of the Australian border protection system's safety record in detecting and intercepting asylum-seeker boats, 1998-2011door Tony Kevin
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This book contains a very detailed investigation into Australia’s intelligence-based border protection system. Tony Kevin seeks to uncover the truth about refugees and boat journeys, and discovers that much of what we are led to believe is simply not true – for example, politicians would have us believe that refugees put themselves and their families at great risk by putting them on boats to come to Australia. In fact, 97% of refugees who have come to Australia by boat since 1998, when the boats first started to arrive, have done so safely. However, as we know, there have also been some great tragedies at sea with boats sinking and disappearing and people’s lives being lost. Tony looks into Australia’s role in these tragedies and finds that Australian maritime border protection policy is sliding by degrees towards a callous indifference to the obligation to strive to protect all human life at sea. I found some of this hard to ‘hear’ but it is important information that all Australians should be aware of. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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In recent years, time-hallowed rescue at sea obligations have been constrained and corroded by an increasingly ruthless and cynical Australian maritime border security system. This system routinely collects large amounts of human and signals intelligence on boats that may be on their way towards Australia's territorial waters. But it sometimes declines to acknowledge and act on that intelligence when it indicates the possibility of a 'suspected irregular entry vessel' -- a SIEV -- in peril at sea. In five major separate boat sinkings or disappearances since SIEV X in 2001, more than 400 asylum seekers bound for Australia have been lost at sea. In Reluctant Rescuers, Tony Kevin forensically examines what can be learned from exploring the public record on the four more recent tragedies in 2009-2011. His main conclusion: that the Australian border security system has lost its moral compass. Safety of life at sea must now be reaffirmed as a declared core responsibility of the system. Reluctant Rescuers will interest anyone concerned with Australian border security and the challenge of irregular arrivals of boat people, from whatever side of this debate they come. Its starting point is the obligation of any civilised government to maintain border policing regimes that respect and care for all human life in peril. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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