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Scoop Coverage: Christmas Island Detainees And NZ Parliament
Scoop Coverage: Christmas Island Detainees And NZ Parliament Uproar
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Greens: Evidence Shows John Key Misled On Detainee Appeals
“Yet this immigration form shows exactly why people are staying in detention centres. If they leave, they could lose the change to stay in the country they call home and with their families." More>>
Earlier:
- Greens - Australia and NZ Greens call for human rights inquiry - If the UN can challenge Australia, why can’t John Key?
- The Nation - Lisa Owen interviews Prime Minister John Key
After Urgent Bill Passes: 'Returning Offenders' Come To NZ From Australian Detention
Police and Corrections are working with other agencies to manage the expected arrival of a number of returning offenders from Australia... Under the new Returned Offenders (Management and Information) Act, Police will serve eligible individuals with a determination notice which informs them that they are subject to supervision, along with their obligations.
They will be required to provide Police with identifying particulars including name, date of birth, address and fingerprints... Under the new legislation, offenders returning to New Zealand from overseas will have the same obligation to provide DNA as those who have committed similar offences in New Zealand. Police will interview them individually to determine information for Offender Management Plans... More>>
Earlier:
- Parliament Today - Returning Offenders Bill Passes - Offenders Bill Passes Committee Stage - Progress on Returning Offenders Bill - House In Urgency for Three Govt Bills
- Parliament Today - Urgency for Christmas Is. Deportees Bill
- NZ Govt - Parole-like supervision regime now in place - Returning offenders Bill introduced to protect Kiwis
- Labour - Big gaps in rushed returning offenders law
- Greens - Green Party abstaining on Returning Offenders Bill
- Maori Party - Māori Party backs urgent Bill to supervise deported offender
- Public Service Association - Probation staff facing burnout
- TV3 Video - Government warned of 'high-risk' deportees 9 months ago
Gordon Campbell: On John Key’s Do’s And Don’ts List When It Comes To Detainees
(a) Key shouldn’t say that the New Zealand detainees on Christmas Island include rapists and murderers when in fact, none of them are. Such claims make him look like either a misinformed fool or a deliberate liar. Either way, its not a good look... [image link] More>>
Peter
Dunne: Australia's Detention Camp Treatment
'Appalling'
The modern concentration camp
approach Australia has taken is simply wrong. It was wrong
when the British tried it in Northern Ireland in the 1970s;
it is wrong in Guantanamo Bay, or in Israel today. Australia
is no different. The right to due process and fair and open
trials is inalienable. So New Zealand needs to be asserting
basic human rights and freedoms, not stooping to the
name-calling and abuse that has passed for debate over the
last week. More>>
ALSO:
- Parliament Today - Speaker at Centre of Dramatic Week
- Wellington.Scoop - Silenced in the House
- Human Rights Commission - NZers in Australian detention centres, and Australia's UPR - Facebook Out-Link Commissioner acknowledges the bravery of the female MPs
- TV3 Video - Has John Key really been protecting Kiwis? - Five Kiwis caught up in Christmas Island riots - Christmas Island: Transferred Kiwis 'extreme risk'
Another
Question Time Walkout: Gordon Campbell On The John Key
Smear Attack
Any way
you try to explain just why the Australians have
simply brushed you aside as you witter on about the spirit
of Anzac - and without even giving you the courtesy of
keeping you informed about what is happening – you'll
lose, big time. Simple truth is we're being kicked around by
Australians big time, and all that John Key is saying is: do
it faster. More>>
ALSO:
- Wellington.Scoop - Silenced in the House - MPs walk out of Parliament after PM accuses them of 'backing rapists'
- Out-Link - 11.11.15 - House Business - YouTube
- Parliament Today - Opposition MPs Clash With Speaker - Opposition Anger at Speaker Boils Over
- Parliament Today - Little & Hipkins Sent to Privileges - Ruling on Unparliamentary Language - Questions & Answers - Nov 12 - Questions & Answers - Nov 10 - Snap Debate on Police Declined
- TV3's 'The Nation' - On The Nation: Lisa Owen interviews Ian Macdonald - On Lisa Owen interviews Marama Fox
- Labour - Detainees belong in Australia, not New Zealand - PM has lost his moral compass over Christmas Island
- Greens - Amy Adams must clarify why New Zealanders are being detained - John Key should 'back' sexual violence survivors - Is John Key losing it?
- NZ First - Debate Needed on Aussie Deportation Law - Apology Over Accusations of Support For Rapists Required - Roast Busters Debate Refused
- Out-Link - Australia: purging the convict stain? | Pundit - Can bias be in the eye of the beholder - and can you call it like you see it? | Pundit
- Out-Link - Cold, calculated and cynical - Speaker - Public Address - My Story - Speaker - Public Address
- Out-Link - John Key doesn't care about rape victims...
- Out-Link - Notes on the politics around Australia's deportation policy | The Dim-Post
- Philip McKibbin - The Question We Need to Ask Ourselves Today
- Out-Link - It's Not OK Prime Minister - ActionStation
- Out-Link - Politics: Mayhem in NZ Parliament as Speaker Ejects MPs Who Say They've Been Sexually Abused | The Spinoff - Politics: Australia's detention policy condemned at UN from all sides. But what did NZ say? | The Spinoff
- Out-Link - Decorated soldier Ko Rutene detained in high security Australian prison despite committing no crime - National - NZ Herald News
- Out-Link - Kiwis Locked Up On Christmas Island Say They Are Being Abused By Guards - BuzzFeed News
- TV3 Video - Key wrong about Christmas Island murder claim - Former Kiwi soldier imprisoned in Australia - MPs who walked out tell their story - Christmas Island detainees transferred to Perth - Charges to be laid against Christmas Island rioters - Key: Detainees 'electing to be on Christmas Island' - Distant riot causes unrest at home - Christmas Island detainees fear repercussions from guards - Kelvin Davis: John Key 'gutless' over Christmas Island
- Pacific.Scoop - Australian authorities move in to seize 'rebel' detention centre
PM's Presser: Key Says Detainees Should Come
To NZ
Mr Key said New Zealanders at the detention
centre had been offered the opportunity to come back to New
Zealand while their cases were being processed and that to
his knowledge the ones still at the centre were there by
choice... More>>
ALSO:
- Labour - Make the right call, mate!
- Greens - John Key puts Australian politics ahead of human rights - NZ Govt cannot support Australia on UN Human Rights Council
- Maori Party - PM urged to talk tough to Aussies
- Unite Union - Support Christmas Island detainees - protest Wednesday
- Amnesty International - Missed opportunity to show leadership on refugee rights - NZ must speak out on Australia's abysmal human rights record
- TV3 Video - Prisoners fearful as chaos reigns on Christmas Island - 'Protesting' at Christmas Island detention centre - Davis
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