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Friday, 11 June 2021

With the spotlight on the Biloela family, can Australia’s rhetoric on refugees improve?

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This week the Biloela family was thrust back in the news as three-year-old Tharnicaa was airlifted to a hospital in Perth to fight pneumonia and a blood infection. Mike Ticher and Lucy Clark speak about the treatment of the Biloela family and whether it will have an impact on Australia’s immigration policy.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/audio/2021/jun/11/with-the-spotlight-on-the-biloela-family-can-australias-rhetoric-on-refugees-improve

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Presented by Gabrielle Jackson with Mike Ticher and Lucy Clark. Produced by Ryan Pemberton. Executive produced by Miles Martignoni

Fri 11 Jun 2021 03.30 AEST

Supporters of the Tamil family seeking asylum in Australia holding placards in support outside the federal court in Melbourne on 4 September  2019

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I was inspired to start this when I discovered old editions of "The Worker". "The Worker" was first published in March 1890, it was the Journal of the Associated Workers of Queensland. It was a Political Newspaper for the Labour Movement. The first Editor was William "Billy" Lane who strongly supported the iconic Shearers' Strike in 1891. He planted the seed of New Unionism in Queensland with the motto “that men should organise for the good they can do and not the benefits they hope to obtain,” he also started a Socialist colony in Paraguay. Because of the right-wing bias in some sections of the Australian media, I feel compelled to counter their negative and one-sided version of events. The disgraceful conduct of the Murdoch owned Newspapers in the 2013 Federal Election towards the Labor Party shows how unrepresentative some of the Australian media has become.
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