Filmmakers, politicians and business heavyweights are among 34 high-profile Australians who have endorsed our recent report, A New Approach: Breaking the Stalemate on Refugees & Asylum Seekers. “Australia’s asylum and refugee policy is still sadly characterised by human tragedy, political opportunism, policy failure and great cost,” the group, which includes former immigration minister Ian Macphee and writer Thomas Keneally said … more
Monthly Archives:: August 2011
Kate Gauthier | There are better alternatives to the ‘Malaysia Solution’
CPD Fellow and co-author of our report, A New Approach: Breaking the Stalemate on Refugees & Asylum Seekers, Kate Gauthier offers a detailed perspective on the present asylum seeker debate. Kate Gauthier chats to The Conversation and provides a structured categorical alternative to the Gillard government’s current ‘Malaysia Solution’. Gauthier endorses a framework divergent from classical deterrence models; promoting the … more
Gunter Pauli | The Blue Economy
Gunter Pauli has a dream. The Belgian economist and entrepreneur has a plan to develop 100 manufacturing innovations with viable business models that could generate 100 million jobs in 10 years. All with zero emissions and no waste. He calls it “The Blue Economy” with innovations covering the full gamut of industrial activity, from energy to mining, from medicine to … more
John Menadue | Our Muddy Refugee Debate
John Menadue offers his perspective on the enduring refugee debate; voicing his opposition to ‘dubious‘ statistics and imploring the Australian public to refrain from armchair activism and empathise with the plight of these desperate individuals. Governments need to be concerned when asylum-seekers use people smugglers to take them on dangerous and possibly fatal journeys. But where there is persecution and violence … more
Radio Adelaide Breakfast | Refugee Debate: Interview With Arja Keski-Nummi
Radio Adelaide Breakfast host Tim Brunero interviews Arja Keski-Nummi – one of the authors of our recent report, A New Approach: Breaking the Stalemate on Refugees & Asylum Seekers. To hear the full interview click here. Before working at the CPD Aria worked with the Department of Immigration for 30 years. She’s been a senior advisor to Hawke government immigration … more
Angela Priestley | Big Names Chase Leasership on Asylum Seeker Debate
Major business figures have come out in vocal support of our recent report A New Approach: Breaking the Stalemate on Refugees & Asylum Seekers. The emergence of prominent business leaders weighing in on this issue is anomalous but report co-author, John Menadue assures us that acquiring their backing isn’t difficult – however no one seems to ask. “They’re busy people … more
ABC Radio Australia | Plea for Compassionate Refugee Policy
ABC Radio Australia presenter Ashley Hall discusses the present state of Australian asylum seeker policy in light of the ten year anniversary of the MV Tampa rescue. Hall chats with one of the endorsers of our report, A New Approach: Breaking the Stalemate on Refugees and Asylum Seekers, University of Melbourne Professor Gustav Nossal. To hear the full interview follow … more
Australia Network News | Call for Australia to Drop Asylum Detention
The ABC Asia Pacific News Center highlighted our report A New Approach: Breaking the Stalemate of Refugee & Asylum Seekers and its broad support among political and industry leaders. Prominent Australians from a broad spectrum of industry and politics have backed a call for the scrapping of mandatory detention for asylum seekers. They support a return to a bipartisan – … more
SBS World News | Renewed calls to end mandatory detention
SBS Radio, World News Australia presented by Murray Silby covered the release of our report A New Approach: Breaking the Stalemate on Refugee and Asylum Seekers, and outlined the industry and union leaders who support the report. Listen to the complete podcast here. CPD’s new report comprehensively critiques Australia’s refugee and asylum policies and finds they are inhumane, ineffective and … more