Newsletter of Brigidine Asylum Seekers Project

(Under the auspices of the Brigidine Justice Community)

Stop Using Asylum Seekers as Political Footballs

What Australia needs is principled and intelligent decision-making on asylum seekers. We believe this is not happening. Instead, the reasons for the latest policy changes and directions seem to have been inspired by the fact that refugees are unpopular in certain parts of the electorate.

Bill Hay's art work-donated to the Project a few years ago - is a graphic reminder of the way people can be used for political ends, in this case Dr Haneef...

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