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That sinking feeling : asylum seekers and the search for the lost Indonesian solution / Paul Toohey.
Publisher number: BAB 140335 | Bolinda AudioSeries: Quarterly essay (Melbourne, Vic.) ; issue 53 (2014)Publisher: Collingwood, VIC Black Inc., 2014Description: 111 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781863956468
- QE 53 2014 [Running title]
- Asylum, Right of -- Australia
- Political refugees -- Government policy -- Australia
- Asylum, Right of -- Australia
- Australia -- Emigration and immigration
- Western Australia -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
- Australia -- Emmigration and immigration
- Australia -- Politics and government -- 2001-
- Australian
- 325.210994 23
Contents:
In: Quarterly essaySummary: The first in-depth analysis of the new government's keystone policies. In Quarterly Essay 53, Paul Toohey looks at one of Tony Abbott's signature promises: to stop the boats. Has his government succeeded? If so, at what cost? In Java, Toohey observes asylum seekers heading for Australia and reports on the Indonesian response. He tells the stories of individual refugees, looks closely at people-smugglers in action, and witnesses the aftermath of a sinking at sea. Toohey also examines Australian attitudes to refugees, and what politicians have made of them.
Includes correspondence : Rowan Callick, Brain Nelson, Julie Rose, John Minford, Linda Jaivin.
| Item type | Home library | Call number | Vol info | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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| Magazine | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | QE53 -- 2014 / 53 | Mar 2014 | Available | That sinking feeling by Paul Toohey | 055567 |
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Includes correspondence : Rowan Callick, Brain Nelson, Julie Rose, John Minford, Linda Jaivin.
The first in-depth analysis of the new government's keystone policies. In Quarterly Essay 53, Paul Toohey looks at one of Tony Abbott's signature promises: to stop the boats. Has his government succeeded? If so, at what cost? In Java, Toohey observes asylum seekers heading for Australia and reports on the Indonesian response. He tells the stories of individual refugees, looks closely at people-smugglers in action, and witnesses the aftermath of a sinking at sea. Toohey also examines Australian attitudes to refugees, and what politicians have made of them.
