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31.8.18

Letter to Wayne Swan Labor Party to change asylum seeker policy with 2067 signatures

31st August 2018

Dear Wayne Swan,

Please find enclosed  copies of an open letter addressed to the President of the Labor  party, which has been signed by 2,067 everyday Australians, including many members of your party. The signatures have been collected by our local Rural Australians for Refugees group and by RAR groups from around Australia.
The open letter, aimed at delegates to your upcoming conference, states:
“We urge delegates to listen to the voices of the many hundreds of groups across Australia who are pleading for a compassionate and humanitarian approach to our refugees and asylum seekers, whether languishing without hope on Manus or Nauru, or living in precarious uncertainty in our communities.
We urge delegates to heed the reports of the wide range of NGOs, human rights groups and professionals in the field who have been consistently calling for an end to the crushing and punitive treatment of people detained indefinitely offshore.
Finally, we urge delegates to commit to ending offshore detention if the Party wins the next Federal election. It is time to put this shameful chapter in our history behind us.”
We acknowledge that there is much that is positive about the Labor party’s current asylum policy. The party’s policy on offshore detention, however, cannot possibly be described as “humanitarian”. Offshore detention, which your party acknowledges is not time-limited, is morally indefensible, unlawful, utterly cruel, and immensely damaging to the detainees’ physical and mental health. It has to end, and it is surely time for the Labor party to take a principled and humanitarian stand on this issue. The refugees and asylum seekers currently languishing in offshore detention must be brought to Australia for processing and for resettlement either here or in other safe countries willing to accept them.
Please be aware that, as the federal election approaches, RAR groups around Australia will continue to campaign strongly for an end to this cruel and shocking policy.
                                                                                 Yours sincerely,

                                                                                  Mike Griffin
                                                              Bellingen and Nambucca District                                                                  RAR
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