Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!CALA-MUZIK!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeeds.ihug.co.nz!ihug.co.nz!ken-transit.news.telstra.net!lon-in.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: jwb@csse.monash.edu.au Subject: Re: Lotsa gaigins Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan References: <1148278255.750072.135200@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1148302851.206917.219020@y43g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <1148432211.759533.215180@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1148434178.091921.39910@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1148443649.241785.167370@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <1148446952.997759.23740@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com> <1148462034.333166.3670@j55g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: tin/1.4.5-20010409 ("One More Nightmare") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.16-1.2096_FC4 (i686)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 41 Message-ID: <2iWcg.9968$S7.5112@news-server.bigpond.net.au> Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 10:10:06 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 138.217.22.57 X-Complaints-To: abuse@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1148465406 138.217.22.57 (Wed, 24 May 2006 20:10:06 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 20:10:06 EST Organization: BigPond Internet Services Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:163042 Declan Murphy dixit: >I was reading John Menadue's autobiography a few years back (my mother >sends me copies of the autobiographies of just about anyone who >converts to Catholicism) Interesting criterion. >and recall him mentioning how he was still >uncovering fossilised procedures & policy when he was running >Immigration & Ethnic Affairs during the Fraser years. Wonder when (or >even if?) it actually ended. Never ended. Haven't you heard of the Cornelia Rau affair or the Vivian Alvarez Solon affair? (For non-Ozzies, these were two people who fell into the clutches of the goons in Australia's Immigration service. Rau was a schizophrenic on the run, who pretended she was an overstaying tourist from Germany (she actually had been in Oz since childhood and only spoke broken German.) The goons tossed her into detention without medical treatment while they pestered the German government to accept her as a deportee. Finally someone noticed that this person on the police missing persons list was actually locked up in Immigration's gulag. Solon's case was worse. She is a citizen, with a medical problem that has left her partly paralyzed. Somehow Immigration thought she was a Phillipina sex slave, and pressured the Phillipines government into accepting her as deportee. She spent about two years in a hospice in Manila while Immigration staff, who knew they'd stuffed up, tried to cover their tracks. Law suits are pending, and the Federal govt may have to pay megabucks in compensation.) All quite disgusting and shameful. -- Jim Breen http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/ Clayton School of Information Technology, Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia ジム・ブリーン@モナシュ大学