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Sunday, June 18, 2006
Help stop the anti-West Papuan asylum seeker law
Now is the time to lobby your Coalition MP and Senator. Urge them not to pass the new asylum seeker laws introduced after the 42 West Papuans were granted temporary protection visas.Coalition Senators contact details can be found here. Coalition House of Representative MPs contacts can be found here.
A Senate Committee handed down a report that slammed the legislation. Over 130 submissions were received and all expect the Immigration Department were critical of the legislation. Testimony made during two days of public hearings in Canberra and Sydney was also damning of the Government's proposed Bill
A Newspoll commissioned by businessman Ian Melrose found that 74% of Australians didn't want to change the laws in order to improve relations with Indonesia.
Click here to see the full details of the poll
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