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 Re: الحكومة الاسترالية توقف اعادة توطين الافارقة وتخص السودانيين (Re: ABUKHALID)
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But Opposition immigration spokesman Tony Burke said the decision should not have been based on allegations that Africans were not integrating into society.
"It is tremendously difficult to apply an integration test on a whole continent," he said.
Questions about each person's ability to integrate should be addressed when they applied for a visa, he said.
Mr Burke's comments come after a study found that discrimination, language barriers, poor job opportunities and a lack of support are making it harder for African refugees to settle in Australia.
The study by psychology researcher Renu Narchal, from the University of Western Sydney, examined the personal stories of 35 people who had moved from war-torn Somalia to Australia over the past eight years. Most were living in Sydney's west.
It found increasing numbers of Somali refugees were battling extreme loneliness that could lead to depression as they struggled to build a new life in Australia.
Dr Narchal found discrimination on religious grounds and in the workplace was a common problem facing new arrivals from Africa.
"It's important that we have an understanding that immigration is a social experience that encompasses identity challenges and adjustments that often result in a struggle to make a new country feel like home," she said.
Uniting Church leaders say they are deeply concerned and disappointed by the federal government's decision to cut the quota of Africans into Australia under the humanitarian refugee program.
The Reverend David Pargeter, director of the Commission for Mission at the Uniting Church, Synod of Victoria and Tasmania says the refugees need support, not vilification.
"When a government minister, on the eve of an election, connects violent action with one particular cultural group, we know we have reached deeply into the darkness of racial politics," Mr Pargeter said.
"This, coupled with punitive action against one of the most traumatised refugee groups in Australia, exposes once again this government's lack of understanding of what life is like for a refugee.
"African refugees need a break, not a smear campaign against them."
Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews yesterday denied discriminating against Africans.
He said the 30 per cent quota for African refugees had been filled in the first three months of the new financial year.
But many of the 9,000 places the government has set aside for Middle Eastern and Asian refugees until June 2008 are still free.
"This notion that we are seeking to demonise people from a particular country is just wrong-headed," he said.
"It's a false compassion to say, 'just keep on bringing more and more people' when we know they've got challenges."
Mr Howard said the slashing of the African refugee intake to 30 per cent from 70 per cent two years ago was decided on the basis of need.
"Well, what we've done in relation to the refugee program is to rebalance it in favour of the Middle East and the South-East Asian area," he said. "It's not in any way racially based."
Mr Andrews said integration problems were also a factor.
"We have detected that there have been additional challenges in relation to some of the people that have come from Africa over the last few years," Mr Andrews said.
But he refused to release top level advice, which he used when slashing the quota, saying it was confidential.
Prepared by a number of government departments, the advice is said to detail integration problems among African communities across Australia.
The refugee stoush, just weeks before a federal election, follows yesterday's Herald Sun report revealing the Government had already filled a reduced quota for African refugees this year.
Mr Brumby yesterday spoke out in support of African arrivals, particularly the Sudanese, who have attracted accusations of being violent and unable to integrate into Australian society.
"If the Federal Government were to terminate this program I, for one, would be very upset about that," he said.
As reaction to the African refugee ban grew:
AFRICAN refugees said they were being used as political footballs before the election.
VICTORIA Police commissioner Christine Nixon said Sudanese immigrants were not over-represented in crime figures.
THE Refugee Action Collective said the Government was playing the race card.
THE Greens compared the issue to the 2001 Tampa crisis.
DEMOGRAPHER Bob Birrell said refugees often endured hardship because of a lack of services in the outer suburbs.
About 12,000 Africans have settled in Victoria under the humanitarian program since 2000 – the largest number of any state.
Ms Nixon said Sudanese were a visible minority but they were not over-represented in crime figures for their population.
However, frontline police said many young African men held no respect for the law or the police enforcing it.
Officers in and around Dandenong, Broadmeadows, Flemington and Footscray were being taunted by groups involved in street robberies, sex attacks and gang violence.
One police source said: "They have no fear of the police."
Refugee activist Pamela Curr accused the Government of trying to generate a refugee backlash before the election.
"They are drawing the race card. Why Africans? Because they are black," she said.
She said cutting the African intake would have terrible consequences for those trying to reunite with loved ones now waiting in squalid and dangerous overseas camps.
"By cutting off the Sudanese group, what they are saying is, 'You're here, you can stay. But don't think you can ever have your kids join you."'
Greens candidate for the seat of Melbourne, Adam Bandt, said the Government was playing the race card to win back voter support.
"This is Tampa '07. This is John Howard's attempt to deal himself into the polls," Mr Bandt said.
The Reverend Dennis Hawkey, minister at St James Uniting Church, Box Hill South said his congregation established a Travel Loan Fund four years ago that has subsidised 700 southern Sudanese refugees.
"We are a country that has set such store on helping those who need help and then finding a way, like the Good Samaritan did," Mr Hawkey said.
"The government's response now mimics that of the two high and mighty people in the story of the Good Samaritan, who just walked past.
"Australia is going to leave these refugees to be cared for by another Good Samaritan."
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 الحكومة الاسترالية توقف اعادة توطين الافارقة وتخص السودانيين | ABUKHALID | 10-03-07, 11:54 AM |
| Re: الحكومة الاسترالية توقف اعادة توطين الافارقة وتخص السودانيين | اسعد الريفى | 10-03-07, 12:19 PM |
| Re: الحكومة الاسترالية توقف اعادة توطين الافارقة وتخص السودانيين | أبو عبيدة البصاص | 10-03-07, 01:28 PM |
| Re: الحكومة الاسترالية توقف اعادة توطين الافارقة وتخص السودانيين | Elmuez Shayeb | 10-03-07, 02:26 PM |
| Re: الحكومة الاسترالية توقف اعادة توطين الافارقة وتخص السودانيين | Muna Khugali | 10-03-07, 02:50 PM |
| Re: الحكومة الاسترالية توقف اعادة توطين الافارقة وتخص السودانيين | ABUKHALID | 10-04-07, 09:46 AM |
| Re: الحكومة الاسترالية توقف اعادة توطين الافارقة وتخص السودانيين | اسعد الريفى | 10-04-07, 01:21 AM |
| Re: الحكومة الاسترالية توقف اعادة توطين الافارقة وتخص السودانيين | اسعد الريفى | 10-04-07, 01:32 AM |
| Re: الحكومة الاسترالية توقف اعادة توطين الافارقة وتخص السودانيين | Alfarwq | 10-04-07, 03:30 AM |
| Re: الحكومة الاسترالية توقف اعادة توطين الافارقة وتخص السودانيين | doma | 10-04-07, 04:07 AM |
| Re: الحكومة الاسترالية توقف اعادة توطين الافارقة وتخص السودانيين | ABUKHALID | 10-04-07, 09:11 AM |
| Re: الحكومة الاسترالية توقف اعادة توطين الافارقة وتخص السودانيين | ABUKHALID | 10-04-07, 09:51 AM |
| Re: الحكومة الاسترالية توقف اعادة توطين الافارقة وتخص السودانيين | ABUKHALID | 10-04-07, 10:12 AM |
| Re: الحكومة الاسترالية توقف اعادة توطين الافارقة وتخص السودانيين | wd al geran | 10-04-07, 12:19 PM |
| Re: الحكومة الاسترالية توقف اعادة توطين الافارقة وتخص السودانيين | ABUKHALID | 10-06-07, 01:28 PM |
| Re: الحكومة الاسترالية توقف اعادة توطين الافارقة وتخص السودانيين | ABUKHALID | 10-07-07, 05:55 AM |
| Re: الحكومة الاسترالية توقف اعادة توطين الافارقة وتخص السودانيين | ABUKHALID | 10-08-07, 03:11 PM |
| Re: الحكومة الاسترالية توقف اعادة توطين الافارقة وتخص السودانيين | ABUKHALID | 10-12-07, 01:38 PM |
| Re: الحكومة الاسترالية توقف اعادة توطين الافارقة وتخص السودانيين | ABUKHALID | 10-12-07, 02:10 PM |
| Re: الحكومة الاسترالية توقف اعادة توطين الافارقة وتخص السودانيين | ABUKHALID | 10-12-07, 02:10 PM |
| Re: الحكومة الاسترالية توقف اعادة توطين الافارقة وتخص السودانيين | Elmuez Shayeb | 10-12-07, 03:09 PM |
| Re: الحكومة الاسترالية توقف اعادة توطين الافارقة وتخص السودانيين | ABUKHALID | 10-13-07, 01:35 PM |
| Re: الحكومة الاسترالية توقف اعادة توطين الافارقة وتخص السودانيين | shahto | 10-13-07, 02:25 PM |
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