Frank
is this new policy in Australia? This has been policy in Canada for some
time. How many other country practice this form of eugenics?
Maria Barile (MSW)
Adaptech Project
c/o Dawson College
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From: "Frank Hall-Bentick" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 3:56 AM
Subject: Australian Immigration Rejects Family as daughter has disability -
Father sets himself alight
> Friends & Colleagues,
>
> Please register your disgust at this discrimatary Policy by Australia
> Immigration Officials that has led to this tragic outcome.
>
> Also please circulate to other lists.
>
> Phillip RuddockMinister for Immigration
> mailto:[log in to unmask]
> or http://www.minister.immi.gov.au/general/contacts.htm
>
> Senator Meg Lees Democrats
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>
> Senator Chris Evans Opposition Spokesperson for Disability Services
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>
> Withholding hope from refugees
> Melbourne "Age" Editorial
>
> Thursday 5 April 2001
>
> In 1996 Shahraz Kayani from Pakistan was granted
> asylum in Australia.
> He was allowed to stay after the authorities assessing
> his case were
> satisfied that he fulfilled the provisions of the
> humanitarian program. But
> although Mr Kayani had been granted residency in a
> stable democracy,
> his troubles were far from over. His application for
> his wife and three
> children to join him under the program's "split
> family" provisions was
> denied because one of the children is disabled and it
> was deemed that she
> would place too great a burden on the taxpayer. The
> Commonwealth
> Ombudsman intervened and a new application was made
> last September
> but, on Monday, the wait had been too long and too
> painful for Mr
> Kayani. He went to Parliament House in Canberra,
> doused himself in
> accelerant and set himself alight. His burns are so
> severe that his chances
> of survival are considered to be slim but, even so,
> Immigration Minister
> Philip Ruddock has said that decisions in the Kayani
> case "are not going
> to be determined under duress".
>
> But what will make the government pay attention to the
> plight of the
> Kayanis? Five years is a significant proportion of a
> child's life, and too
> long for a father to wait to be reunited with his wife
> and children. It was
> reasonable for Mr Kayani to expect that if he was
> eligible for asylum in
> this country, his immediate family would be too. Many
> asylum seekers are
> driven by a desire to provide a better life for their
> children. Mr Kayani
> was in a more desperate situation than most because of
> his daughter's
> disability. According to the logic of the heart, such
> a situation calls for
> prompt and compassionate action, but immigration
> officials, implementing
> a policy driven chiefly by concern for the bottom
> line, decided that the
> disability meant that no more help would be extended
> to the Kayanis. This
> is cruel and discriminatory, reflects badly on
> Australia and has had a
> devastating effect on the Kayanis. Relatives of the
> Kayanis have now
> offered to pay for the disabled daughter's medical
> costs and are
> concerned that the family will be punished further
> because of Mr Kayani's
> action. "We did want to make clear that what happened
> to Mr Kayani
> was not done in a deliberate act of trying to create a
> problem," said Victor
> Rebikoff, a family representative.
>
> Australian officials have been so intent on
> discouraging asylum seekers
> from queue jumping that they have come to resemble
> those Dickensian
> villains who delight in punishing the needy and
> tormenting the vulnerable. A
> plastic surgeon has said that if Mr Kayani survives he
> will be "horribly,
> horribly scarred". The pity of it is that, if the
> government had dealt with his
> case swiftly and with compassion, his suffering could
> have been avoided.
>
>
>
> http://www.theage.com.au/news/2001/04/05/FFXAPIIY3LC.html
>
> http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/2001/04/05/FFXHHHIY3LC.html
>
> Thanks.
>
> Frank Hall-Bentick
> President
> Disability Australia Ltd
>
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