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Denying trafficking not the way to protect the Asylum system
Hannah Dickinson from the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) has penned an article in this Journal that is full of distraction and denial of the massive labour trafficking scam that started in 2014-15.
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That approach does nothing to help genuine asylum seekers nor help the over 70,500 unsuccessful asylum seekers currently living in Australia with no rights and no protections.
The headline of Dickinson’s article is itself misleading.
Nowhere has the Nine Network pursued a ‘tired, politicised, militaristic discourse on refugees’.
There is no negative comment whatsoever in any of the Nine coverage about asylum seekers who are securing permanent protection.
That is an…