Unfortunately Maria,
This piece of discrimination has been around for a long time. It is
contained withint the federal Migration Act 1958. The regulation have
appended a list of 'disabilities' and 'diseases' to be excluded. They have
been reshuffled over time. But the belief that disability automatically
invokes a burden hasn't!
Regards
Fiona
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Queensland University of Technology
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Sent: Friday, 6 April 2001 2:51
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Subject: Re: Australian Immigration Rejects Family as daughter has
disability - Father sets himself alight
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
> mailto:[log in to unmask]
>
> 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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