{"id":240,"date":"2021-06-11T00:23:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T00:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pilgrimsj.unitingchurch.org.au\/?p=240"},"modified":"2021-06-11T00:23:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T00:23:32","slug":"indefinite-detention-becomes-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pilgrimsj.unitingchurch.org.au\/?p=240","title":{"rendered":"Indefinite detention becomes law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new bill recently passed into Australian law (Migration Amendment Bill 2021, passed on May 13) will allow the Government to detain refugees and asylum seekers indefinitely, a move human rights activists, lawyers and immigration advocates say is unethical, and illegal under international human rights law. <br>The new law will allow Australia to hold refugees in mandatory detention centres indefinitely in cases where a person has had their refugee visa cancelled but cannot be deported because they face persecution in their home country. (anyone see the irony?)<br>Immigration Minister Alex Hawke said the new bill promotes human rights because it reinforces the nation&#8217;s commitment to non-refoulment, which forbids a country from deporting refugees or asylum seekers to their country of origin if they are at risk of persecution. <br>More information on attached file. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pilgrimsj.unitingchurch.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Migration-Amendment-Bill-2021.pdf\">Migration-Amendment-Bill-2021<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/pilgrimsj.unitingchurch.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Migration-Amendment-Bill-2021.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new bill recently passed into Australian law (Migration Amendment Bill 2021, passed on May 13) will allow the Government to detain refugees and asylum seekers indefinitely, a move human rights activists, lawyers and immigration advocates say is unethical, and illegal under international human rights law. The new law will allow Australia to hold refugees&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-refugees-and-asylum-seekers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsj.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsj.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsj.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsj.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsj.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsj.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsj.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsj.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsj.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsj.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsj.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}