Changes to (Australian) Migration Law Called Cruel and Unncessary

SYDNEY, May 12, 2006 (anglicare.org.au): Anglicare Sydney�s Chief Executive Officer, Peter Kell says that the system of off-shore mandatory detention is cruel and unnecessary. �Placing asylum seekers in off-shore detention centres is an unnecessarily punitive way to treat these people and tantamount to punishing them for no crime�.
Anglicare, the welfare arm of the Sydney Diocese of the Anglican Church issued a Media Report on May 12 expressing its grave concern at proposed changes to the Migration Act that would excise the Australian mainland from the migration zone. The changes would see all asylum seekers who arrive by boat, regardless of whether they reach the Australian mainland or not, sent to off-shore immigration detention centres in places like Nauru or Manus Island in Papua New Guinea.

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