Seeking asylum in Australia - draft program

Seeking Asylum in Australia: Draft Program

 

27th -28th November 2005: Link Theatre, Building S, Caulfield Campus, Monash University

 

Sunday 27^th November

 

9.15 – 10.00                             Registration

 

10.00 – 11.00                           Keynote Address

Julian Burnside

                                                  QC and Refugee Reform Advocate

 

11.00 -11.15                            Morning Tea

 

11.15 – 12.30                           Refugee Testimonials

                                                  Edriess

Sudanese parents, born in Kuwait, spent five years in detention in Australia

                                                  Joyce

                                                  Sudanese woman, arrived in Australia under the                                                        United Nations Humanitarian Resettlement Program

                                                  Mohamad

An Iraqi detained first at Port Hedland for nearly 4 years before being sent to Maribyrnong.

 

12.30 – 1.30                             Lunch

 

1.30 – 3.00                               Mental Health

                                                  Bernadette McSherry

Professor of Law, Monash University; Legal Member of the Mental Health Review Board of Victoria

Providing Mental Health Services and Psychiatric Care to Immigration Detainees: What the Law Requires

                                                  Guy Coffey

Clinical Psychologist, Victorian Foundation for the Survivors of Torture and South West Area Mental Health Service

Clinical and ethical dilemmas in providing mental health services to detained asylum seekers

Ida Kaplan

Refugee Health Research Centre, La Trobe University & Direct Services Manager, Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture

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3.00 – 3.15                               Afternoon Tea

 

3.15 – 4.30                               Grass Roots Campaigners                                                              Matthew Albert

Sudanese Australian Integrated Learning (SAIL) &

Young Australian of the Year 2005

Australian refugee policy from an African perspective

Anne Horrigan-Dixon

Fitzroy Learning Network

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Short Animation Film:

Created and introduced by the Southern Ladies’ Animation Group (SLAG)

It’s Like That 

                                       

 

4.30 – 5.00                               Refreshments

 

5.00 – 6.30                               Telling the stories of asylum seekers as artists

Arnold Zable (Freelance author)

Ros Horin (Theatre director and playwright)

Shahin Shafaei, (Iranian playwright)

Majid Shokur, (Iraqi actor, and former refugee)

                             

Monday 28^th November

9.00 – 9.30                               Historical perspective

                                                  Klaus Neumann

Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology and freelance historian

Seeking Asylum in Australia - A Historical Perspective

 

9.30 – 10.30                             The challenges facing government

Bob Birrell

Director of the Centre for Population and Urban Research, Monash University

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Representative TBC

The Department Of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (DIMIA)

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10.30 – 11.00                           Morning Tea

 

11.00 – 12.00                           Media

                                                  Michael Clyne

Professorial Fellow, Linguistics, University of Melbourne & Emeritus Professor, Monash Uni.

Words Excusing Exclusion

Michael Gordon

National Editor, The Age

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12.00 – 1.00                             Lunch

 

1.00 – 3.00                               Advocacy and Dissent

Kon Karapanagiotidis

Co-ordinator, Asylum Resource Centre, Melbourne

NO WORK...NO SAFETY...NO RIGHTS…NO MATTER

′the human cost of the community detention of asylum seekers′

Stancea Vichie

Community Liaison Coordinator

Hotham Mission Asylum Seeker Project, North Melbourne

 

Kate Gauthier

National coordinator of A Just Australia - former Immigration and refugee policy adviser to former

Democrats’ leader, Andrew Bartlett

Achieving change from within, or, Using their own sticks to beat them with.

 

3.00 – 4.30                               Policy

                                                  Susan Kneebone

Professor of Law, Monash University

The legal and ethical implications of extra-territorial processing of asylum seekers:  Europe follows Australia

                                                  David Corlett

                                                  Research Associate, Politics, La Trobe University

Do we have obligations to those we′ve sent back?

                                                  Deborah Zion

Faculty of Medicine, Monash University and co-editor of Monash Bioethics Review

Caring for Asylum Seekers in Australia: Ethics and Human Rights

 

4.30 – 4.45                               Afternoon Tea                      

 

 

4.45 – 5.30                               Closing Address

Spencer Zifcak

Associate Professor of Law, La Trobe University