While we are watching with deep pride the performance of Andrew Willkie, MP, who brought the government on its knees over poker machine reforms, we consider this to be clear evidence on Greens lack of determination to achieve changes on issues they promise to achieve before last elections.
“Andrew Willkie, a sole independent MP, could enforce the Labor minority government to act on spiraling gambling problem” said Jamal Daoud, spokesperson for Social Justice Network. “This raises very serious questions why 10 Greens MP and Senators cannot enforce the same minority government to stop attacks on asylum seekers rights”
“Andrew Willkie knows that poker machine reforms were the issues that put him in parliament. This is why he pursued this with arm and fist. And he delivered”
“In comparison, the Greens know very well that the asylum seekers issue was the most important issue that handed them the balance of power in both houses. Yet the Greens prefer to keep treating this issue as political football, with no achievement but to spread more lies and deceptions”
“The Greens leader can pick up the phone tonight and call the prime minister to warn her about deep consequencies if she pursued the same inhumane line on boat people. The result is almost guaranteed. The PM cannot gamble with her job, especially that all opinion polls indicate devastating election defeat if we go to election now”
“We have stressed for long time that the Greens treat the suffering of refugees and asylum seekers as a political football to win more votes. The Greens are happy to keep the debate so low between the two major parties, to distinguish the Greens from both. This would guarantee the Greens to keep the current high vote. The performance of Mr Willkie is clear evidence that support our claims”
If the Greens are serious on their crocodile tears on boat people suffering and fate, they should either call Andrew Willkie or Julia Gillard. They could get some consultation on how Andrew Willkie could achieve results. Alternatively, they should stress to the PM that they are serious on withdrawing support for the government if Labor insists to take Australia to third world countries’ club.
The Greens should cut the lies and either stop shedding crocodile tears on boat people. Or they should put their feet deep in sands and demand actions from PM, if she wants to keep her job for the next two years.
For media contact, Jamal Daoud can be contacted on 0404 447 272.
Monday, September 26, 2011
Monday, September 12, 2011
The Greens must withdraw support for this government to end inhumane treatment of refugees
Today’s announcement by Labor minority government of its intension to introduce bill to amend Migration Act to enable it to deport asylum seekers arrived by boat is a new serious race to bottom in disregarding the human rights in this country. By doing this, the Labor is going too extreme to the right. Even the Liberals are hesitant to support this extreme move to dump refugees and asylum seekers and traffic them to other countries.
While it is very highly likely that the Liberals will support amending the Migration Act, we believe that defeating these attempts to race to bottom on this issue lay within the Greens power.
“The Greens is in unique situation after the last year’s election” said Jamal Daoud, spokesperson of Social Justice Network. “The Greens not only holds the balance of power in both houses. Its sole MP, Adam Bandt, is a key member to secure Labor’s continuation in office”.
The Greens leader’s excuse not to withdrawing Greens support for Labor minority government and hence going for early election was based on his assumption that Labor’s position on this issue is more progressive than Liberals’. This view is not supported by the recent developments and Labor’s practices.
“The situation inside the immigration system is very appalling. It is far worse than it was under the regressive Liberals government”
The Greens should stop playing numbers game. Maybe the Greens do not have the power to stop Labor-Liberals alliance to keep persecuting refugees and asylum seekers. But they have great power, if used appropriately, could stop the Labor’s attacks on human rights of refugees and asylum seekers.
With Labor greatly struggling in opinion polls, it will not gamble to go for fresh new election as a result of Greens withdrawal of support. Hence, we believe that any Greens indication of this scenario will enforce Labor to back down on their path to amend the Migration Act and offshore processing.
If the Greens fail to do so, the voters will not be blamed to lose faith in the Greens and the political system altogether. The 1.5 million voters who voted for the Greens in the last election, they did so to arm the Greens with enough power to stop attacks on these vulnerable people.
If the Greens fail to use these tremendous powers (balance of power in both houses in addition to the ability to bring the government down), the Australians will have thousand questions about the Greens credibility on this issue.
The Greens verbal opposition to Amending Migration Act and against the offshore processing should be accompanied by actions. Without actions, the Greens are in fact complicit in the attacks on refugees, asylum seekers, multiculturalism and diversity in the society.
For media contact, Jamal Daoud can be contacted on 0404 447 272.
While it is very highly likely that the Liberals will support amending the Migration Act, we believe that defeating these attempts to race to bottom on this issue lay within the Greens power.
“The Greens is in unique situation after the last year’s election” said Jamal Daoud, spokesperson of Social Justice Network. “The Greens not only holds the balance of power in both houses. Its sole MP, Adam Bandt, is a key member to secure Labor’s continuation in office”.
The Greens leader’s excuse not to withdrawing Greens support for Labor minority government and hence going for early election was based on his assumption that Labor’s position on this issue is more progressive than Liberals’. This view is not supported by the recent developments and Labor’s practices.
“The situation inside the immigration system is very appalling. It is far worse than it was under the regressive Liberals government”
The Greens should stop playing numbers game. Maybe the Greens do not have the power to stop Labor-Liberals alliance to keep persecuting refugees and asylum seekers. But they have great power, if used appropriately, could stop the Labor’s attacks on human rights of refugees and asylum seekers.
With Labor greatly struggling in opinion polls, it will not gamble to go for fresh new election as a result of Greens withdrawal of support. Hence, we believe that any Greens indication of this scenario will enforce Labor to back down on their path to amend the Migration Act and offshore processing.
If the Greens fail to do so, the voters will not be blamed to lose faith in the Greens and the political system altogether. The 1.5 million voters who voted for the Greens in the last election, they did so to arm the Greens with enough power to stop attacks on these vulnerable people.
If the Greens fail to use these tremendous powers (balance of power in both houses in addition to the ability to bring the government down), the Australians will have thousand questions about the Greens credibility on this issue.
The Greens verbal opposition to Amending Migration Act and against the offshore processing should be accompanied by actions. Without actions, the Greens are in fact complicit in the attacks on refugees, asylum seekers, multiculturalism and diversity in the society.
For media contact, Jamal Daoud can be contacted on 0404 447 272.
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Letter to Greens Adam Bandt: Actions, and not talks, are needed tomorrow
11 September 2011
Dear Adam Bandt, member for Melbourne
In this letter we would like to urge you to take ACTION to stop the inhumane and illegal treatment of refugees and asylum seekers. We heard your leader and your party spokesperson on refugees talk extensively on several occasions opposing this treatment, but we saw no action.
We understand that the Labor government (backed by you) will move tomorrow to change the Migration Act to enable them legislating for Offshore Processing. The offshore processing was found recently to be illegal by High Court ruling.
For the last year, we have witnessed serious deteriorations to human rights in Australia. This includes, but not exclusive of, treatment of refugees. Such treatment that made Australia a headline for international criticism and embarrassment. Not only this. Such treatment that resulted in loss of 5 human lives inside detention centres, mass riots and protests inside many detention centres and self harm attempts of detainees almost on daily basis.
All these atrocities and human rights violations happened under your party (the Greens Party) auspices. Without your party’s support for Labor, the current government would not continue to govern more than few months.
Not only this. We did not witness serious calls from your party to the current minister for immigration to end these criminal and detrimental practices in the migration system.
We know very well that the current government is very vulnerable to any serious threat of withdrawing support, which would lead to government collapse and subsequent change of government. This was the reaosn why your party was successful in enforcing the government to introduce the highly unpopular Carbon Tax laws, which was consistently opposed by all previous Labor leaders.
We deeply believe that tomorrow is the time for action. If the government (backed by your party) will decide to amend the Migration Law, Australian politics will enter new very serious low moment of disrespect to human rights and international laws. Not only this. Multiculturalism and diversity in society will be deeply compromised.
We urge you to use the unique position you personally hold in parliament to stop this disaster. While we know that you and your party will lose if we go to fresh double dissolution election, we believe that Labor will not go this path. The Labor simply does not think that you and your party are serious about opposing this low path of attacking refugees, asylum seekers, multiculturalism and diversity. If they will be sure that your party is very serious on threats of withdrawing support, the Labor will back down.
We think that tomorrow is a historic day. If you allow the government you are part of to go this path, Australians should have thousand questions about you and your party credibility on election promises and policies.
Thanks and if you need to discuss these issues further, I can be contacted on 0404 447 272
Yours sincerely
Jamal Daoud
Spokesperson, SJN
Dear Adam Bandt, member for Melbourne
In this letter we would like to urge you to take ACTION to stop the inhumane and illegal treatment of refugees and asylum seekers. We heard your leader and your party spokesperson on refugees talk extensively on several occasions opposing this treatment, but we saw no action.
We understand that the Labor government (backed by you) will move tomorrow to change the Migration Act to enable them legislating for Offshore Processing. The offshore processing was found recently to be illegal by High Court ruling.
For the last year, we have witnessed serious deteriorations to human rights in Australia. This includes, but not exclusive of, treatment of refugees. Such treatment that made Australia a headline for international criticism and embarrassment. Not only this. Such treatment that resulted in loss of 5 human lives inside detention centres, mass riots and protests inside many detention centres and self harm attempts of detainees almost on daily basis.
All these atrocities and human rights violations happened under your party (the Greens Party) auspices. Without your party’s support for Labor, the current government would not continue to govern more than few months.
Not only this. We did not witness serious calls from your party to the current minister for immigration to end these criminal and detrimental practices in the migration system.
We know very well that the current government is very vulnerable to any serious threat of withdrawing support, which would lead to government collapse and subsequent change of government. This was the reaosn why your party was successful in enforcing the government to introduce the highly unpopular Carbon Tax laws, which was consistently opposed by all previous Labor leaders.
We deeply believe that tomorrow is the time for action. If the government (backed by your party) will decide to amend the Migration Law, Australian politics will enter new very serious low moment of disrespect to human rights and international laws. Not only this. Multiculturalism and diversity in society will be deeply compromised.
We urge you to use the unique position you personally hold in parliament to stop this disaster. While we know that you and your party will lose if we go to fresh double dissolution election, we believe that Labor will not go this path. The Labor simply does not think that you and your party are serious about opposing this low path of attacking refugees, asylum seekers, multiculturalism and diversity. If they will be sure that your party is very serious on threats of withdrawing support, the Labor will back down.
We think that tomorrow is a historic day. If you allow the government you are part of to go this path, Australians should have thousand questions about you and your party credibility on election promises and policies.
Thanks and if you need to discuss these issues further, I can be contacted on 0404 447 272
Yours sincerely
Jamal Daoud
Spokesperson, SJN
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
The mandatory detention has no community support: Labor-Greens government should abolish this inhumane policy
The recent poll on offshore processing system which showed that majority of Australians oppose inhumane treatment of refugees has proved our long time argument. The Social Justice Network has argued for the few years that Australians are decent people and does not support illegal inhumane treatment of vulnerable people seeking asylum in our great nation. Even during the turbulent times where riots and mass protest hit our detention centres and the political parties represented in the parliament showed no leadership, we were arguing that Australians, while oppose such desperate actions, but understand its origin and reasons.
“The poll has showed very clearly that the majority of Australians opposes Australia give up its commitments and dishonor its obligation under Geneva Convention on Refugees Status 1951” said Jamal Daoud, spokesperson for SJN. “Not only this. This poll came after media and political hysteria came after serious desperate actions where parts of Christmas Island and Villawood detention centres were burnt and mass protests of detainees”.
Not only this. We have today the department secretary telling us that the mandatory detention is not working and there were some serious complications for this system. These serious complications include high rate of self-harm, mental health epidemics, high cost and harm to workers.
“Two months ago the minister blamed our organisation to orchestrate and organize all these. The minister and his SERCO contractors were so naive to accuse us of causing the endemics of self-harm, riots, protests and all other complications” added Jamal Daoud. “I was arrested, humiliated on the hands of police officers, banned from entering any detention centre with no written notice and accused of urging people to burn detention centres and self-harm”
“Now, we have the head of the department admit that I and my colleagues are not to be blamed for all these desperate actions. And he urged politicians to exercise the same options we gave this minister and previous minister, to solve the tremendous troubles inside our system”.
“We were the first to suggest using community accommodation for asylum seekers. We were the first to warn the minister of deep consequencies, even before the riots and mass self harm attempts happened. Instead of listening, the authorities were quick to blame us of causing all these troubles and desperate acts”.
While we are happy for the Liberal-Greens move to initiate the enquiry about the crisis in the system, we think that they should do more to handle this crisis and start relieving it. The Greens especially, as the party that championed themselves to be pro-refugee party and won a lot of votes in the last election on this issue, can even enforce the Labor to abandon its inhumane illegal practices and policies. The Greens, as a crucial partner of Labor, can enforce the government to fundamentally change the system. We saw how the Greens did enforce the Labor to introduce Carbon Tax, re-open internal debate on same-sex marriage and on other issues. The Greens is in very good position to enforce Labor into abandoning Malaysian solution, Manus Island solution and fundamentally change the current arrangement.
The Greens is interested only in political score-pointing and vote-harvesting tactics, instead of changing fundamentally a collapsing system.
The SJN is proud to be on the front line against this policy. And we will continue to oppose inhumane and illegal policies.
For media contact, Jamal Daoud can be contacted on 0404 447 272.
“The poll has showed very clearly that the majority of Australians opposes Australia give up its commitments and dishonor its obligation under Geneva Convention on Refugees Status 1951” said Jamal Daoud, spokesperson for SJN. “Not only this. This poll came after media and political hysteria came after serious desperate actions where parts of Christmas Island and Villawood detention centres were burnt and mass protests of detainees”.
Not only this. We have today the department secretary telling us that the mandatory detention is not working and there were some serious complications for this system. These serious complications include high rate of self-harm, mental health epidemics, high cost and harm to workers.
“Two months ago the minister blamed our organisation to orchestrate and organize all these. The minister and his SERCO contractors were so naive to accuse us of causing the endemics of self-harm, riots, protests and all other complications” added Jamal Daoud. “I was arrested, humiliated on the hands of police officers, banned from entering any detention centre with no written notice and accused of urging people to burn detention centres and self-harm”
“Now, we have the head of the department admit that I and my colleagues are not to be blamed for all these desperate actions. And he urged politicians to exercise the same options we gave this minister and previous minister, to solve the tremendous troubles inside our system”.
“We were the first to suggest using community accommodation for asylum seekers. We were the first to warn the minister of deep consequencies, even before the riots and mass self harm attempts happened. Instead of listening, the authorities were quick to blame us of causing all these troubles and desperate acts”.
While we are happy for the Liberal-Greens move to initiate the enquiry about the crisis in the system, we think that they should do more to handle this crisis and start relieving it. The Greens especially, as the party that championed themselves to be pro-refugee party and won a lot of votes in the last election on this issue, can even enforce the Labor to abandon its inhumane illegal practices and policies. The Greens, as a crucial partner of Labor, can enforce the government to fundamentally change the system. We saw how the Greens did enforce the Labor to introduce Carbon Tax, re-open internal debate on same-sex marriage and on other issues. The Greens is in very good position to enforce Labor into abandoning Malaysian solution, Manus Island solution and fundamentally change the current arrangement.
The Greens is interested only in political score-pointing and vote-harvesting tactics, instead of changing fundamentally a collapsing system.
The SJN is proud to be on the front line against this policy. And we will continue to oppose inhumane and illegal policies.
For media contact, Jamal Daoud can be contacted on 0404 447 272.
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Possible devastating effects of deporting Afghanis to Malaysia on our soldiers in Afghanistan
The government’s vow to broadcast the inhumane (possibly violent) deportation of asylum seekers arrived today to Christmas Island to Malaysia could have devastating effects on our soldiers serving overseas. The Social Justice Network warns that the footage of Australian officers roughly handling women and children (all mainly Afghani) could spark fresh targeted round of deadly attacks by Afghani militia on our soldiers participating in invading that country.
“Any footage of Western soldiers roughly handling Afghani women and children would be seen as an attack on national and religious pride of the whole nation of Afghanistan” said Jamal Daoud, spokesperson of SJN. “Not only this. The government is vowing to film this rough inhumane treatment and broadcast them on local TV stations across the Middle East”.
This year, we saw increasing targeted attacks on Australian Special Forces in Afghanistan. The image of Australia is already very bad across the Middle East, especially in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now the government will send another message of hate, racism and humiliating of foreign nationals. This will have devastating effect on many aspects of Australian life, including tourism and economical relationships.
“The Australian government by sending such rough footages will encourage Afghani militia to spread hate against Australia. Consequently, we would expect that this would be translated in increased military attacks on our soldiers stationed there”.
The Australian government, again, is picking the wrong messages and the wrong circumstances. Such huge misjudgment will probably cost human lives. These lives could have spread beyond our military personnel to include Australian tourists or business people. The Australian government is again ready to sacrifice Australian interests (and this time Australian lives) in a bid to lift its very low electoral approval.
“The Australian government is not only gambling with lives of innocent asylum seekers. But it also gambles with Australian lives (soldiers and civilians)”
We hold the Australian government the full responsibility of any increasing loss of Australian lives as a result of its move to violate international laws on treating refugees and asylum seekers. We also hold the government the full responsibility of the well-being of asylum seekers who will be deported back to unknown destination in Malaysia.
For media contact, Jamal Daoud can be contacted on 0404 447 272
“Any footage of Western soldiers roughly handling Afghani women and children would be seen as an attack on national and religious pride of the whole nation of Afghanistan” said Jamal Daoud, spokesperson of SJN. “Not only this. The government is vowing to film this rough inhumane treatment and broadcast them on local TV stations across the Middle East”.
This year, we saw increasing targeted attacks on Australian Special Forces in Afghanistan. The image of Australia is already very bad across the Middle East, especially in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now the government will send another message of hate, racism and humiliating of foreign nationals. This will have devastating effect on many aspects of Australian life, including tourism and economical relationships.
“The Australian government by sending such rough footages will encourage Afghani militia to spread hate against Australia. Consequently, we would expect that this would be translated in increased military attacks on our soldiers stationed there”.
The Australian government, again, is picking the wrong messages and the wrong circumstances. Such huge misjudgment will probably cost human lives. These lives could have spread beyond our military personnel to include Australian tourists or business people. The Australian government is again ready to sacrifice Australian interests (and this time Australian lives) in a bid to lift its very low electoral approval.
“The Australian government is not only gambling with lives of innocent asylum seekers. But it also gambles with Australian lives (soldiers and civilians)”
We hold the Australian government the full responsibility of any increasing loss of Australian lives as a result of its move to violate international laws on treating refugees and asylum seekers. We also hold the government the full responsibility of the well-being of asylum seekers who will be deported back to unknown destination in Malaysia.
For media contact, Jamal Daoud can be contacted on 0404 447 272
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Malaysian “solution” deal: Labor-Greens equally responsible for rising racism and Islamophobia
The Social Justice Network (SJN) condemns unreservedly the Labor minority government’s singing on the Malaysian “solution” deal. The deal is a clear violation to many international treaties and agreements that were signed by Australia long time ago. On the top of this are the violations to many articles in the Geneva Convention on Refugees status, 1952, and subsequent protocols. The deal especially violates the “non-refoulement” principle in the Geneva Convention.
“We do not know why asylum seekers arriving by boats are treated differently to asylum seekers arriving by planes” said Jamal Daoud, spokesperson of SJN. “The deal with Malaysia means effectively that refugees arriving by boats will be denied basic rights of non-refoulement that their counterparts arriving by planes are still enjoying”.
The deal with Malaysia has more serious implications on Multiculturalism and social harmony in the society.
“We note here the irony of the singing on the deal on the next day of the massacres in Oslo by Anti-migrants Anti-Muslims extremist. The Australian government has sent the wrong message to the whole world by caving in for the extreme racists’ demands to crack down on migration, especially Muslims”
The deal with Malaysia is a bid from the current minority government to win back racist voters who deserted the Labor party in the last election on this particular issue.
“The Labor minority government cannot understand that the voters have deserted the Labor party for opposite reasons” Mr Daoud added. “The voters clearly were shocked when the Labor party did not stand up for Multiculturalism and against Islamophobia”
“We have great faith in Australian people to believe that in fact voters deserted the Labor after they did not feel any difference between them and the extreme racist Liberal party. The evidence on this is the high record of people voted for the Greens who claimed to support Multiculturalism and asylum seekers rights”
“But contrary to the Greens claims, we hold the Greens party equal responsibility on these serious setbacks of human rights in Australia. The Greens have flexed their muscles in the face of the Labor minority government on many issues, but the asylum seekers rights”
In this instance we wonder why the Greens were successful in enforcing the government to introduce Carbon Tax, re-opening of same-sex marriage debate, banning life cattle trade with Indonesia and on many other issues. But the Greens are claiming to have no muscles in the face of the Labor’s attack on boat people’s right to seek asylum in Australia.
“We are giving this issue such huge importance because we believe that it plays major role in undermining the social cohesion and social harmony. The attack on boat people are no more than attack on Multiculturalism and rights of people from minor ethnic and religious groups to live equally in the society. Such attacks that lead to the Oslo horrendous massacres 2 days ago”
The slide of the Labor and the Greens popularity in recent opinion polls are clear indications that Australians had fed up with political cowardness. The majority of Australians who voted against Howard’s government in 2007 election, actually voted for deep change in society. On the top of these issues are the attack on Multiculturalism and human rights. But for the last 4 years, no major changes to Howard’s polices were introduced by Labor - Greens. In fact, things now are worse on human rights and Multiculturalism issues than during Howard’s dark era.
We note here that the Labor-Greens government has:
1- Introduced the most racist migration laws in any Western democracies, where virtually people from Non-English speaking countries has nil chance to migrate to Australia, but on spouse visas. The English proficiency was introduced to be the main important issues for skilled, business and working migration.
2- Re-introduced Temporary protection visas.
3- Introduced Malaysian solution (which is by all experts’ opinions are far worse than Pacific solution).
4- Enforced very harsh circumstances in detentions which resulted in many deaths-suicides, mass self-harm attempts and mass riots and protests.
We hold Labor-Greens government the full responsibility of any serious Oslo-like attacks in Australia as a result of not doing much to crack down on extreme racism and Islamophobia in the society. We believe, from recent attacks and threats to us and to other human rights campaigners, that extremism, racisms and Islamophobia are on steep rise in Australia. This is a direct result of the total lack of leadership form our politicians in Canberra to stand up against extremists and racists. If things continue on this track, we believe that dark days are awaiting us.
For media comments, Jamal Daoud can be contacted on 0404 447 272
“We do not know why asylum seekers arriving by boats are treated differently to asylum seekers arriving by planes” said Jamal Daoud, spokesperson of SJN. “The deal with Malaysia means effectively that refugees arriving by boats will be denied basic rights of non-refoulement that their counterparts arriving by planes are still enjoying”.
The deal with Malaysia has more serious implications on Multiculturalism and social harmony in the society.
“We note here the irony of the singing on the deal on the next day of the massacres in Oslo by Anti-migrants Anti-Muslims extremist. The Australian government has sent the wrong message to the whole world by caving in for the extreme racists’ demands to crack down on migration, especially Muslims”
The deal with Malaysia is a bid from the current minority government to win back racist voters who deserted the Labor party in the last election on this particular issue.
“The Labor minority government cannot understand that the voters have deserted the Labor party for opposite reasons” Mr Daoud added. “The voters clearly were shocked when the Labor party did not stand up for Multiculturalism and against Islamophobia”
“We have great faith in Australian people to believe that in fact voters deserted the Labor after they did not feel any difference between them and the extreme racist Liberal party. The evidence on this is the high record of people voted for the Greens who claimed to support Multiculturalism and asylum seekers rights”
“But contrary to the Greens claims, we hold the Greens party equal responsibility on these serious setbacks of human rights in Australia. The Greens have flexed their muscles in the face of the Labor minority government on many issues, but the asylum seekers rights”
In this instance we wonder why the Greens were successful in enforcing the government to introduce Carbon Tax, re-opening of same-sex marriage debate, banning life cattle trade with Indonesia and on many other issues. But the Greens are claiming to have no muscles in the face of the Labor’s attack on boat people’s right to seek asylum in Australia.
“We are giving this issue such huge importance because we believe that it plays major role in undermining the social cohesion and social harmony. The attack on boat people are no more than attack on Multiculturalism and rights of people from minor ethnic and religious groups to live equally in the society. Such attacks that lead to the Oslo horrendous massacres 2 days ago”
The slide of the Labor and the Greens popularity in recent opinion polls are clear indications that Australians had fed up with political cowardness. The majority of Australians who voted against Howard’s government in 2007 election, actually voted for deep change in society. On the top of these issues are the attack on Multiculturalism and human rights. But for the last 4 years, no major changes to Howard’s polices were introduced by Labor - Greens. In fact, things now are worse on human rights and Multiculturalism issues than during Howard’s dark era.
We note here that the Labor-Greens government has:
1- Introduced the most racist migration laws in any Western democracies, where virtually people from Non-English speaking countries has nil chance to migrate to Australia, but on spouse visas. The English proficiency was introduced to be the main important issues for skilled, business and working migration.
2- Re-introduced Temporary protection visas.
3- Introduced Malaysian solution (which is by all experts’ opinions are far worse than Pacific solution).
4- Enforced very harsh circumstances in detentions which resulted in many deaths-suicides, mass self-harm attempts and mass riots and protests.
We hold Labor-Greens government the full responsibility of any serious Oslo-like attacks in Australia as a result of not doing much to crack down on extreme racism and Islamophobia in the society. We believe, from recent attacks and threats to us and to other human rights campaigners, that extremism, racisms and Islamophobia are on steep rise in Australia. This is a direct result of the total lack of leadership form our politicians in Canberra to stand up against extremists and racists. If things continue on this track, we believe that dark days are awaiting us.
For media comments, Jamal Daoud can be contacted on 0404 447 272
Friday, June 17, 2011
Refugees Day should see practical support for them and not propaganda for electoral gains
While we never agreed with the right conservative Liberal party, but we have no choice but to agree with Tony Abbot’s demands. Tony Abbot demanded yesterday that the Greens stop talking about opposing Malaysian solution and instead take actions to enforce the government to abandon Malaysian solution and all steps to undermine the refugees and asylum seekers rights.
This year’s celebration of World Refugees Day is coming where the government of Australia supposed to be Left-Centre collation of Labor-Greens-Independents. But instead of celebrating any progress on ending scapegoating of asylum seekers and attacks on Multiculturalism, the attacks indeed intensified. Such intensification of attacks was met with no meaningful opposition from the Greens, which promoted itself as “progressive”, “Left” and “pro-refugees”.
“The Social Justice Network (SJN) will boycott the rally tomorrow as we view the rally to be no more than a cheap media stunt to promote the Greens and its political opportunism” said Jamal Daoud, spokesperson for SJN. “We note here that the Greens senator is the only politician invited to speak at the rally. We also note that the list of organisations endorsing the rally have every Greens local group on it, with no other political endorsement of other political parties or organisations supporting refugees rights”
“We will have no problem to give the Greens space to outline to Australians and protestors the practical steps taken by the Greens to end the attack on the refugees and asylum seekers. But instead, the rally will give a platform for the Greens senator to vend more lies about the Greens declared policies on these issues”
We note that there is big difference between policies and politics. The Greens currently have huge influence on the Labor’s decision, if they were genuine to enforce change of current Labor politics. The Greens in fact a partner in this minority government and with one call from Bob Brown or Sarah Hanson-Young to Julia Gillard, they can in fact enforce total change of current politics. The Greens can demand abandoning of Malaysian solution and all harsh Labor policies, if Julia wants to continue governing the country.
Without Adam Bandit, the minority government will collapse and fresh election will be called. The Labor definitely is not ready for such election and will definitely budge to such demands. The government could refuse or resist demands of sole independent MP, Andrew Willkie, when he demanded dramatic changes to big and influential pokies industry. The Greens should follow the footsteps of Andrew Willkie.
The SJN calls on all community members to ignore the rally tomorrow, such rally that wants to give the Greens progressive blanket they do not deserve. We believe that progressiveness should be practical steps to achieve solutions and results, and not only a set of code words.
We, as a group that fights on the frontline for the rights of refugees and asylum seekers, cannot endorse a rally that aims to deceive masses and give them misleading sense of comfort that there are politicians inside the parliament defending these rights. The Greens, as part of minority government that persecute asylum seekers and refugees, became part of the problem and not part of any solution.
When the Greens take any practical step to stop the asylum seekers persecution, we will be the first to promote these steps to be progressive and things to be praised and promoted. But for now, the Greens should be condemned for making this highly humanitarian issue an issue for electoral gains.
We should also note that we, in the SJN, were ahead of Tony Abbot to demand practical steps from the Greens to stop the Labor’s attack on refugees and asylum seekers rights.
Instead of participating in the media circus and stunt tomorrow, the SJN will continue to take practical steps to highlight the suffering of refugees and asylum seekers.
For media contact, Jamal Daoud can be contacted on 0404 447 272
This year’s celebration of World Refugees Day is coming where the government of Australia supposed to be Left-Centre collation of Labor-Greens-Independents. But instead of celebrating any progress on ending scapegoating of asylum seekers and attacks on Multiculturalism, the attacks indeed intensified. Such intensification of attacks was met with no meaningful opposition from the Greens, which promoted itself as “progressive”, “Left” and “pro-refugees”.
“The Social Justice Network (SJN) will boycott the rally tomorrow as we view the rally to be no more than a cheap media stunt to promote the Greens and its political opportunism” said Jamal Daoud, spokesperson for SJN. “We note here that the Greens senator is the only politician invited to speak at the rally. We also note that the list of organisations endorsing the rally have every Greens local group on it, with no other political endorsement of other political parties or organisations supporting refugees rights”
“We will have no problem to give the Greens space to outline to Australians and protestors the practical steps taken by the Greens to end the attack on the refugees and asylum seekers. But instead, the rally will give a platform for the Greens senator to vend more lies about the Greens declared policies on these issues”
We note that there is big difference between policies and politics. The Greens currently have huge influence on the Labor’s decision, if they were genuine to enforce change of current Labor politics. The Greens in fact a partner in this minority government and with one call from Bob Brown or Sarah Hanson-Young to Julia Gillard, they can in fact enforce total change of current politics. The Greens can demand abandoning of Malaysian solution and all harsh Labor policies, if Julia wants to continue governing the country.
Without Adam Bandit, the minority government will collapse and fresh election will be called. The Labor definitely is not ready for such election and will definitely budge to such demands. The government could refuse or resist demands of sole independent MP, Andrew Willkie, when he demanded dramatic changes to big and influential pokies industry. The Greens should follow the footsteps of Andrew Willkie.
The SJN calls on all community members to ignore the rally tomorrow, such rally that wants to give the Greens progressive blanket they do not deserve. We believe that progressiveness should be practical steps to achieve solutions and results, and not only a set of code words.
We, as a group that fights on the frontline for the rights of refugees and asylum seekers, cannot endorse a rally that aims to deceive masses and give them misleading sense of comfort that there are politicians inside the parliament defending these rights. The Greens, as part of minority government that persecute asylum seekers and refugees, became part of the problem and not part of any solution.
When the Greens take any practical step to stop the asylum seekers persecution, we will be the first to promote these steps to be progressive and things to be praised and promoted. But for now, the Greens should be condemned for making this highly humanitarian issue an issue for electoral gains.
We should also note that we, in the SJN, were ahead of Tony Abbot to demand practical steps from the Greens to stop the Labor’s attack on refugees and asylum seekers rights.
Instead of participating in the media circus and stunt tomorrow, the SJN will continue to take practical steps to highlight the suffering of refugees and asylum seekers.
For media contact, Jamal Daoud can be contacted on 0404 447 272
Friday, June 3, 2011
Malaysian solution could and should be killed by the Greens
While the devastating impacts of the Malaysian deal to ship asylum seekers between Malaysia and Australia are well known, we are disappointing of comments and actions by many so-called pro-refugees activists. The activists are calling on wide range of sides to the debate to stop the deal from going ahead, but ignoring to demand the Greens to take decisive and practical action to stop this horrific deal.
“Some pro-refugees activists, who are mainly either open or subtle Greens members, are cowardly demanding actions from Malaysian parliament, UNHCR, Labor party or even the Liberals to kill the deal, but stop short of demand the same from the Greens” said Jamal Daoud, spokesperson for Social Justice Network. “These activists know very well that the Greens is in the position to kill this deal almost immediately”.
The Greens politicians need to stop their campaign of lies and deceptions by calling on the Labor government to abandon the deal, while they are part of this minority government, one way or other. The Greens is equally responsible of all gross human rights abuses the asylum seekers could suffer if the deal goes ahead.
“It is shameful to see the Greens lagging behind the Liberals in demanding to kill this deal, on human rights basis. While we know that the Liberals are trying to squeeze the government in the corner mainly for political scoring reasons, we understand that the Greens has the ultimate power to kill this deal and preserve Australian reputation as country that respects basic human rights”
“It is deeply alarming that the Greens is resorting to the cheap “numbers’ game” when dealing with this highly humanitarian issue. The Greens allegation that they do not have enough politicians in the parliament to kill the deal is not more than a cheap lie. The Greens sole MP, Adam Bandit, could kill the government altogether if the Labor insists to go ahead with its highly regressive and highly inhumane policies. On the other hands, if the record numbers of Greens politicians in Federal parliament is not enough to kill this issue that was opposed by all opposition politicians, would not this send clear signal to voters that voting for the Greens is not more than a waste of vote?!”
The SJN condemns the cowardnece of the so-called pro-refugees activists who stop short of naming and targeting the Greens to enforce them to act to end highly inhumane practices. These activists are in fact serving Greens interests to grab more power but not serving the interests of asylum seekers or to strengthen the real Multiculturalism.
If these activists are seriously concerned about the devastating impact of this deal, they should target the Greens to honor their pre-election commitments. These activists should start target Greens politicians by all means to enforce them to kill this deal, even if it would mean killing the government. We may start organizing such campaigns and possibly rallies outside Greens offices.
On the other hand, we will make sure that voters know about these coward action of the Greens in the next election.
For media contact, Jamal Daoud can be contacted on 0404 447 272.
“Some pro-refugees activists, who are mainly either open or subtle Greens members, are cowardly demanding actions from Malaysian parliament, UNHCR, Labor party or even the Liberals to kill the deal, but stop short of demand the same from the Greens” said Jamal Daoud, spokesperson for Social Justice Network. “These activists know very well that the Greens is in the position to kill this deal almost immediately”.
The Greens politicians need to stop their campaign of lies and deceptions by calling on the Labor government to abandon the deal, while they are part of this minority government, one way or other. The Greens is equally responsible of all gross human rights abuses the asylum seekers could suffer if the deal goes ahead.
“It is shameful to see the Greens lagging behind the Liberals in demanding to kill this deal, on human rights basis. While we know that the Liberals are trying to squeeze the government in the corner mainly for political scoring reasons, we understand that the Greens has the ultimate power to kill this deal and preserve Australian reputation as country that respects basic human rights”
“It is deeply alarming that the Greens is resorting to the cheap “numbers’ game” when dealing with this highly humanitarian issue. The Greens allegation that they do not have enough politicians in the parliament to kill the deal is not more than a cheap lie. The Greens sole MP, Adam Bandit, could kill the government altogether if the Labor insists to go ahead with its highly regressive and highly inhumane policies. On the other hands, if the record numbers of Greens politicians in Federal parliament is not enough to kill this issue that was opposed by all opposition politicians, would not this send clear signal to voters that voting for the Greens is not more than a waste of vote?!”
The SJN condemns the cowardnece of the so-called pro-refugees activists who stop short of naming and targeting the Greens to enforce them to act to end highly inhumane practices. These activists are in fact serving Greens interests to grab more power but not serving the interests of asylum seekers or to strengthen the real Multiculturalism.
If these activists are seriously concerned about the devastating impact of this deal, they should target the Greens to honor their pre-election commitments. These activists should start target Greens politicians by all means to enforce them to kill this deal, even if it would mean killing the government. We may start organizing such campaigns and possibly rallies outside Greens offices.
On the other hand, we will make sure that voters know about these coward action of the Greens in the next election.
For media contact, Jamal Daoud can be contacted on 0404 447 272.
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Social Justice Network condemns the Israeli killing of Palestinian peaceful protestors
The Social Justice Network condemns in the strongest words the Israeli killings of dozens of Palestinian demonstrators while demonstrating to mark the 63 rd anniversary of Palestinian Nakba (Catastrophe) day. The demonstrators who were peaceful and unarmed were killed in cold blood by Israeli army when they tried to march to the border of historical Palestine demanding their right of return to their homeland, as per international conventions and resolutions.
“The world has watched yesterday how Israeli army killed in cold blood dozens of peaceful protestors demanding basic rights of return to homeland. The rights is guaranteed under UN resolution 194 and many articles in the Universal Human Rights Declaration, 1948” said Jamal Daoud, spokesperson of SJN. “Yet, the “Free World” of “Western Democracies” failed to rise up and demand Israel to honour international law and resolutions”.
“We see the Western democracies’ double standard here. These democracies were quick to condemn Libyan regime for oppressing its own people and were quick to impose sanctions and no-fly zone, including NATO bombing of Libyan cities. But when Israel is killing dozens of unarmed protestors and deny refugees from returning to their homeland, these democracies are silent, if not supporting Israeli illegal and criminal actions”
Israel is blocking the return of more than 7 millions Palestinian refugees from returning to their villages, towns and cities. The western democracies, including Australian government and all opposition parties in Federal parliament, are keeping blind eye on these gross violations to human rights.
Yesterday, the SJN with many community members sent strong message of support for the Palestinian refugees’ demands to be allowed back to their homeland when they held vigil outside the American consulate in Sydney. The network is discussing with other community organizations and organizations concerned about human rights to take further actions to condemn the latest Israeli killing of peaceful demonstrators.
The network hold Israel and its allies of Western democracies the full responsibility of the latest violence and bloodshed. This violence and bloodshed that could intensify the cycle of violence in the Middle East and neighbouring regions.
To stop this vicious cycle of violence, Israel should stop being treated as above-the-law state. For the last 63 years, Israel was never held accountable for the crimes it committed. Despite many international reports of Israeli crimes, no actions were taken to discipline Israel and hold its leaders accountable for these crimes. Australians politicians, especially the ones claim to be progressive, should start demanding actions against Israeli crimes. These actions should include sanctions against Israel and suspending diplomatic and economic ties.
For media contact, Jamal Daoud can be contacted on 0404 447 272
“The world has watched yesterday how Israeli army killed in cold blood dozens of peaceful protestors demanding basic rights of return to homeland. The rights is guaranteed under UN resolution 194 and many articles in the Universal Human Rights Declaration, 1948” said Jamal Daoud, spokesperson of SJN. “Yet, the “Free World” of “Western Democracies” failed to rise up and demand Israel to honour international law and resolutions”.
“We see the Western democracies’ double standard here. These democracies were quick to condemn Libyan regime for oppressing its own people and were quick to impose sanctions and no-fly zone, including NATO bombing of Libyan cities. But when Israel is killing dozens of unarmed protestors and deny refugees from returning to their homeland, these democracies are silent, if not supporting Israeli illegal and criminal actions”
Israel is blocking the return of more than 7 millions Palestinian refugees from returning to their villages, towns and cities. The western democracies, including Australian government and all opposition parties in Federal parliament, are keeping blind eye on these gross violations to human rights.
Yesterday, the SJN with many community members sent strong message of support for the Palestinian refugees’ demands to be allowed back to their homeland when they held vigil outside the American consulate in Sydney. The network is discussing with other community organizations and organizations concerned about human rights to take further actions to condemn the latest Israeli killing of peaceful demonstrators.
The network hold Israel and its allies of Western democracies the full responsibility of the latest violence and bloodshed. This violence and bloodshed that could intensify the cycle of violence in the Middle East and neighbouring regions.
To stop this vicious cycle of violence, Israel should stop being treated as above-the-law state. For the last 63 years, Israel was never held accountable for the crimes it committed. Despite many international reports of Israeli crimes, no actions were taken to discipline Israel and hold its leaders accountable for these crimes. Australians politicians, especially the ones claim to be progressive, should start demanding actions against Israeli crimes. These actions should include sanctions against Israel and suspending diplomatic and economic ties.
For media contact, Jamal Daoud can be contacted on 0404 447 272
13 May 2011
Vigil to commemorate 63rd anniversary of Palestinian Nakba: SJN supports the Palestinian refugees’ rights to return to their homeland
The Social Justice Network has called for a vigil to commemorate the 63rd anniversary of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, 15 May 1948. The Israeli occupation resulted in destroying hundreds of villages, towns and neighborhoods and created more than 750,000 refugees. To date, the Israeli authorities are refusing to accept implementing UN resolutions to allow millions of Palestinian refugees returning to their homeland.
“The SJN called the vigil as response to the many calls from Palestinian organisations to organise mass walk of Palestinian refugees to the borders of Palestine with its neighbouring countries” said Jamal Daoud, spokesperson of SJN. “It is expected that millions of Palestinian refugees and thousands of international supporters will arrive to the borders of historical Palestine with neighboring countries on Sunday 15 May 2011”
The masses will demand that Israel should allow their return to their homeland immediately. UN resolution 194 calls on Israeli authorities to facilitate the immediate return of Palestinian refugees to their villages, towns and cities.
The Palestinian refugees are inspired by the successful revolutions by Arab nations against the dictatorships. They are hoping that the walk of millions of refugees to the borders and their protest of the millions for days there will enforce Israeli occupation authorities to allow them to return to their homeland. It will at least highlight the plight of the Palestinian refugees, which lasts for 63 years now.
The SJN hopes to send strong message of support for the Palestinian refugees’ demands to allow them back to their homeland, as per UN resolutions. The SJN also hopes to send strong message to the Australian politicians that their blind support of Israel is not acceptable anymore.
The vigil will be the first activity the network is intending to organise or participate in. In the next few weeks we will announce the further steps we will take to increase the Australian awareness of this highly humanitarian issue. We will announce about them in due time.
The vigil will be next Sunday 15 May 2011, from 2 – 4 pm outside the American Consulate in Sydney – Martin Place. The SJN decided to hold the vigil outside the American Consulate in protest of continued American blind support of Israeli aggressions and wars.
For media contact, Jamal Daoud can be contacted on 0404 447 272
The Social Justice Network has called for a vigil to commemorate the 63rd anniversary of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, 15 May 1948. The Israeli occupation resulted in destroying hundreds of villages, towns and neighborhoods and created more than 750,000 refugees. To date, the Israeli authorities are refusing to accept implementing UN resolutions to allow millions of Palestinian refugees returning to their homeland.
“The SJN called the vigil as response to the many calls from Palestinian organisations to organise mass walk of Palestinian refugees to the borders of Palestine with its neighbouring countries” said Jamal Daoud, spokesperson of SJN. “It is expected that millions of Palestinian refugees and thousands of international supporters will arrive to the borders of historical Palestine with neighboring countries on Sunday 15 May 2011”
The masses will demand that Israel should allow their return to their homeland immediately. UN resolution 194 calls on Israeli authorities to facilitate the immediate return of Palestinian refugees to their villages, towns and cities.
The Palestinian refugees are inspired by the successful revolutions by Arab nations against the dictatorships. They are hoping that the walk of millions of refugees to the borders and their protest of the millions for days there will enforce Israeli occupation authorities to allow them to return to their homeland. It will at least highlight the plight of the Palestinian refugees, which lasts for 63 years now.
The SJN hopes to send strong message of support for the Palestinian refugees’ demands to allow them back to their homeland, as per UN resolutions. The SJN also hopes to send strong message to the Australian politicians that their blind support of Israel is not acceptable anymore.
The vigil will be the first activity the network is intending to organise or participate in. In the next few weeks we will announce the further steps we will take to increase the Australian awareness of this highly humanitarian issue. We will announce about them in due time.
The vigil will be next Sunday 15 May 2011, from 2 – 4 pm outside the American Consulate in Sydney – Martin Place. The SJN decided to hold the vigil outside the American Consulate in protest of continued American blind support of Israeli aggressions and wars.
For media contact, Jamal Daoud can be contacted on 0404 447 272
Thursday, April 21, 2011
The Labor-Greens government is responsible for riots in Villawood
The Social Justice Network has warned for long time of expected wide spread riots in detention centres if the current Labor-Greens coalition government continues with its regressive politics. The coalition government was sending conflicting signals in different directions. The Labor was selling itself as tough government on boat arrivals to stop “people smuggling activities”. While the smaller partner, the Greens, was selling empty rhetoric about the need for more humane approach. The Greens did not give one principled vision on how to deal with this highly humanitarian issue.
At last night’s ABC Lateline, the Greens joined both the Labor and the Liberals to condemn and blame the detainees for their “violent” actions that will “cost tax-payers a lot of money”. The Greens also retreated from their election promises to work on totally abolishing of the mandatory detention system to replace it with demands to cosmetically make the system looks like prettier and less inhumane.
“The Greens senator and spokesperson on the issue rightly pointed to the fact that the continued detention of thousands of asylum seekers for indefinite periods and the vague process of the rejected applications had caused desperate asylum seekers to riot inside detention centers” said Jamal Daoud, spokesperson for the SJN. “But she did not give any practical steps taken by her Greens party to enforce the Labor to change these inhumane practices that causes huge losses of tax-payers money”
“Ms Hanson - Young failed to answer question about her party’s practical commitment to honour its policy on working towards abolishing mandatory detention system. From Ms Hanson - Young indications, we understood that the Greens supports convicting desperate asylum seekers for their desperate actions”
“We understand that abolishing mandatory detention system should include dismantling detention centres, including Villawood detention centre”
“It is alarming that the former Liberal PM, Malcolm Fraser, supports dismantling the “hell-holes”, when the Labor-Greens coalition government is moving to prosecute the people who work to dismantle them”.
“The citizens who voted to the Greens in the last elections on perception that they will work to dismantle this inhumane system need some explanations form the Greens officials. These voters need to hear from the Greens why they were very effective to enforce Labor to change its position on many important issues, like introducing Carbon Tax and considering changing the constitution on marriage definition to introduce same-sex marriage, but they are unable to change Labor’s position on mandatory detention issues”
“We deeply believe that the Greens is enjoying the crisis in detention system. Such crisis that depletes the Labor from progressive votes for the Greens benefits”.
The Social Justice Network supports any attempts to dismantle the mandatory detention system. This includes supporting any attempts to dismantle any of the “hell-holes”, including Viallwood DC. If the Labor-Greens coalition has deep concerns about tax-payers money, they should work quickly to dismantle this system that causes waste of millions of dollars every year.
For media contact, Jamal Daoud can be contacted on 0404 447 272
At last night’s ABC Lateline, the Greens joined both the Labor and the Liberals to condemn and blame the detainees for their “violent” actions that will “cost tax-payers a lot of money”. The Greens also retreated from their election promises to work on totally abolishing of the mandatory detention system to replace it with demands to cosmetically make the system looks like prettier and less inhumane.
“The Greens senator and spokesperson on the issue rightly pointed to the fact that the continued detention of thousands of asylum seekers for indefinite periods and the vague process of the rejected applications had caused desperate asylum seekers to riot inside detention centers” said Jamal Daoud, spokesperson for the SJN. “But she did not give any practical steps taken by her Greens party to enforce the Labor to change these inhumane practices that causes huge losses of tax-payers money”
“Ms Hanson - Young failed to answer question about her party’s practical commitment to honour its policy on working towards abolishing mandatory detention system. From Ms Hanson - Young indications, we understood that the Greens supports convicting desperate asylum seekers for their desperate actions”
“We understand that abolishing mandatory detention system should include dismantling detention centres, including Villawood detention centre”
“It is alarming that the former Liberal PM, Malcolm Fraser, supports dismantling the “hell-holes”, when the Labor-Greens coalition government is moving to prosecute the people who work to dismantle them”.
“The citizens who voted to the Greens in the last elections on perception that they will work to dismantle this inhumane system need some explanations form the Greens officials. These voters need to hear from the Greens why they were very effective to enforce Labor to change its position on many important issues, like introducing Carbon Tax and considering changing the constitution on marriage definition to introduce same-sex marriage, but they are unable to change Labor’s position on mandatory detention issues”
“We deeply believe that the Greens is enjoying the crisis in detention system. Such crisis that depletes the Labor from progressive votes for the Greens benefits”.
The Social Justice Network supports any attempts to dismantle the mandatory detention system. This includes supporting any attempts to dismantle any of the “hell-holes”, including Viallwood DC. If the Labor-Greens coalition has deep concerns about tax-payers money, they should work quickly to dismantle this system that causes waste of millions of dollars every year.
For media contact, Jamal Daoud can be contacted on 0404 447 272
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
The Greens backdown on boycotting Israel: another Greens political whoring!
Marrickville council has decided last night to overturn its original decision to endorse campaign to boycott Israeli products, known internationally as BDS campaign. The motion was introduced to the council last December by Greens councilors. The decision to overturn the original one was not possible without the support of the introducing party, the Greens.
The Social Justice Network (SJN) condemns in the strongest words the Greens political whoring attitude tonight.
“The Greens had done it again. In the last few months, the Greens has sent too many conflicting messages in too many directions that the message was lost at the end” said Jamal Daoud, the spokesperson of SJN. “Three Greens councilors opposed withdrawing the original motion. While two have supported the withdrawal. The Greens deliberately misled the Australians by splitting the vote on the motion last night”
“From the first day, we knew and we expressed our pessimism of the real agenda behind the original motion. We have questioned many aspects of the motion, including its timing just few months before the NSW election”
“The draft of the motion was clear that it was designed for electoral use. The Greens had big hope to snatch Marrickville seat from Labor. They wanted to do so on a sea of Palestinian bloods”.
“The Greens political whoring has great negative impact. It divided the community, divided the movement for Palestine Freedom and demoralised the activists and community members”
“We have warned from day one of the original motion that the Greens enthusiasm for this campaign will be evaporated once the election dust settles. This is what exactly happened last night”.
“The Greens is not new for such political whoring attitude. The Greens party has backflipped on many issues in the last decade to the point that no politician or analysts know where they are really standing on issues”.
“The Greens has vowed to abolish private health rebate. This is the party’s official policy. But in fact, the Greens has voted against partially abolishing the rebate when it was introduced by Kevin Rudd’s government”.
“It also backflipped on political donations, refugees rights, selling public assets, Afghanistan war, Multiculturalism and issue of Israeli occupation of Palestine”.
The Greens mouthpiece on Palestine – Israel issue, the Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine (CJPP) should come up with convincing argument if they want to keep fooling Australians on the Greens progressiveness on this issue. The CJPP should issue media release explaining what we can expect from them and their party.
We will continue exposing this highly opportunistic party on all levels. We are very concerned that continued Greens chameleonic attitude of constantly changing skin colours, will affect the communities’ faith in the political system. We have witnessed in the last decade growing decrease of marginalised communities participation in the political process. The total lack of any alternative party on issues important for large section of community will deepen this feeling of hopelessness among growing numbers of Australians.
For media contact, Jamal Daoud can be contacted on 0404 447 272
The Social Justice Network (SJN) condemns in the strongest words the Greens political whoring attitude tonight.
“The Greens had done it again. In the last few months, the Greens has sent too many conflicting messages in too many directions that the message was lost at the end” said Jamal Daoud, the spokesperson of SJN. “Three Greens councilors opposed withdrawing the original motion. While two have supported the withdrawal. The Greens deliberately misled the Australians by splitting the vote on the motion last night”
“From the first day, we knew and we expressed our pessimism of the real agenda behind the original motion. We have questioned many aspects of the motion, including its timing just few months before the NSW election”
“The draft of the motion was clear that it was designed for electoral use. The Greens had big hope to snatch Marrickville seat from Labor. They wanted to do so on a sea of Palestinian bloods”.
“The Greens political whoring has great negative impact. It divided the community, divided the movement for Palestine Freedom and demoralised the activists and community members”
“We have warned from day one of the original motion that the Greens enthusiasm for this campaign will be evaporated once the election dust settles. This is what exactly happened last night”.
“The Greens is not new for such political whoring attitude. The Greens party has backflipped on many issues in the last decade to the point that no politician or analysts know where they are really standing on issues”.
“The Greens has vowed to abolish private health rebate. This is the party’s official policy. But in fact, the Greens has voted against partially abolishing the rebate when it was introduced by Kevin Rudd’s government”.
“It also backflipped on political donations, refugees rights, selling public assets, Afghanistan war, Multiculturalism and issue of Israeli occupation of Palestine”.
The Greens mouthpiece on Palestine – Israel issue, the Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine (CJPP) should come up with convincing argument if they want to keep fooling Australians on the Greens progressiveness on this issue. The CJPP should issue media release explaining what we can expect from them and their party.
We will continue exposing this highly opportunistic party on all levels. We are very concerned that continued Greens chameleonic attitude of constantly changing skin colours, will affect the communities’ faith in the political system. We have witnessed in the last decade growing decrease of marginalised communities participation in the political process. The total lack of any alternative party on issues important for large section of community will deepen this feeling of hopelessness among growing numbers of Australians.
For media contact, Jamal Daoud can be contacted on 0404 447 272
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Brief analysis of NSW Election results: SJN proud of its campaign and achievements
The Social Justice Network ran 3 candidates for the NSW state election, 2011. The candidates scored the average of 2.2 across the seats of Auburn, Lakemba and Fairfield. Despite all circumstances (which we will mention later in the release), we could score this result in the first state campaign we ever participated in.
Recently, we have been receiving phone calls from people known to us and others not known to us. The tone of the callers has a mixture of joy and gloating. What is deeply depressing for us is that these callers were having Lebanese accent, and we are sure that they are Muslims.
In the election where the Liberal party started its campaign with vicious attack on Multiculturalism and Muslim community, where we saw many Liberal shadow ministers launched Islamophobic comments, to the point of demanding ban of Muslim migration for initial period of 10 years. We were deeply shocked and depressed when we saw that many “Muslim” organizations urged Muslim NSW residents to reward the Liberal party for its Islamophobic campaigns by urging them to vote for this extreme party.
In the aftermath of this campaign we should stress that we are proud of our achievements. We also very proud that we participated in aborting the agenda of some opportunistic Muslim “leaders” to get Liberals elected in the highly multicultural seats with high Muslim presence. We also very proud that we did not compromise our principles for any reason or in return for any deal.
Maybe we did not get a lot of votes. But we got our message through in this election in the targeted areas. Not only this. We left our fingerprints on this election, especially in high multicultural seats with high Muslim presence.
Despite the following facts, we did succeed in sending strong message about the lack of real multiculturalism in Australian politics:
1- Our campaign had no budget and we operated with self-funds..
2- Our campaign was subjected to vicious dirty tricks from many rival candidates, many of them has big budget to spread lies, deception and roumers about our campaigns and our candidates. We are well aware about the house-to-house and shop-to-shop campaign to spread lies about our campaign and candidates.
3- Our campaign challenged high-profile religious and community “leaders” who sold the interests and rights of their communities for individual benefits.
Maybe we did not get many votes, but we can claim comfortably and safely the highest moral ground among rival candidates and political opponents. During the many “Meet the candidate” forums and meetings, we demonstrated that we have both real commitments to social justice, and we have clear vision how to address the injustices in the society.
In this campaign we could accumulate more knowledge about how to conduct future campaigns in more efficient way. We should stress again that this was the first time we ran candidates for state parliament. And we have learnt a lot. And we have better exposure and better networks now. We should mention here that our candidates got more votes than political forces which were established long before our group and ran tens of candidates before.
When we decided to run candidates, our aim was not to win seats. We knew very well that we will not win any seat. We wanted to send a message to different sides. We wanted to send message to mainstream political groups that it is highly unacceptable to keep ignoring the lack of multiculturalism and the lack of equal representation of new migrants in decision making bodies. We also wanted to send a message of hope to marginalised groups and give them some hints about alternative way to deal with complacency of mainstream parties in racism and Islamopbohia.
With very limited financial resources, we have achieved a lot. We did not get a lot of votes. But we affected the way voters voted in this election. We are proud that we participated in:
1- Minimizing the swing to Liberals in high multicultural seats, especially with high Muslim presence.
2- Minimizing the Greens votes, including aborting the Greens dream of wining high multicultural seat of Marrickville and minimizing the increase of Greens votes in the Legislative Council.
3- Making the low representation of Non-English speaking people in parliament an election matter.
4- We were the only political group that campaigned on true progressive platform, where progressiveness meant siding with marginalized in their fight for equality. Unlike other “progressive” groups who were preaching progressiveness but practicing regressive ideas of excluding marginalized and promote Anti-family and Anti-moral values. Such campaigns that would result in deepening marginalization by increasing socio-economic problems as a result of deteriorating social bond of families and communities, increase individualism and increase depending on substances.
Our high moral ground includes our refusal to participate in Islamophobic campaigns through high restraint in dealing with sheikh Fayez fiasco. We were more restraint in dealing with this issue (despite the fact that we do not agree with any comment or teaching Mr Fayez launched or preached) than many Muslim religious figures and Muslim radio stations, who participated in fueling these campaigns by vending fiery comments.
In the next few weeks we will take further steps to capitalize on the already achieved goals and achievements. We will announce about them in due time.
Jamal Daoud
Spokesperson, Social Justice Network
Recently, we have been receiving phone calls from people known to us and others not known to us. The tone of the callers has a mixture of joy and gloating. What is deeply depressing for us is that these callers were having Lebanese accent, and we are sure that they are Muslims.
In the election where the Liberal party started its campaign with vicious attack on Multiculturalism and Muslim community, where we saw many Liberal shadow ministers launched Islamophobic comments, to the point of demanding ban of Muslim migration for initial period of 10 years. We were deeply shocked and depressed when we saw that many “Muslim” organizations urged Muslim NSW residents to reward the Liberal party for its Islamophobic campaigns by urging them to vote for this extreme party.
In the aftermath of this campaign we should stress that we are proud of our achievements. We also very proud that we participated in aborting the agenda of some opportunistic Muslim “leaders” to get Liberals elected in the highly multicultural seats with high Muslim presence. We also very proud that we did not compromise our principles for any reason or in return for any deal.
Maybe we did not get a lot of votes. But we got our message through in this election in the targeted areas. Not only this. We left our fingerprints on this election, especially in high multicultural seats with high Muslim presence.
Despite the following facts, we did succeed in sending strong message about the lack of real multiculturalism in Australian politics:
1- Our campaign had no budget and we operated with self-funds..
2- Our campaign was subjected to vicious dirty tricks from many rival candidates, many of them has big budget to spread lies, deception and roumers about our campaigns and our candidates. We are well aware about the house-to-house and shop-to-shop campaign to spread lies about our campaign and candidates.
3- Our campaign challenged high-profile religious and community “leaders” who sold the interests and rights of their communities for individual benefits.
Maybe we did not get many votes, but we can claim comfortably and safely the highest moral ground among rival candidates and political opponents. During the many “Meet the candidate” forums and meetings, we demonstrated that we have both real commitments to social justice, and we have clear vision how to address the injustices in the society.
In this campaign we could accumulate more knowledge about how to conduct future campaigns in more efficient way. We should stress again that this was the first time we ran candidates for state parliament. And we have learnt a lot. And we have better exposure and better networks now. We should mention here that our candidates got more votes than political forces which were established long before our group and ran tens of candidates before.
When we decided to run candidates, our aim was not to win seats. We knew very well that we will not win any seat. We wanted to send a message to different sides. We wanted to send message to mainstream political groups that it is highly unacceptable to keep ignoring the lack of multiculturalism and the lack of equal representation of new migrants in decision making bodies. We also wanted to send a message of hope to marginalised groups and give them some hints about alternative way to deal with complacency of mainstream parties in racism and Islamopbohia.
With very limited financial resources, we have achieved a lot. We did not get a lot of votes. But we affected the way voters voted in this election. We are proud that we participated in:
1- Minimizing the swing to Liberals in high multicultural seats, especially with high Muslim presence.
2- Minimizing the Greens votes, including aborting the Greens dream of wining high multicultural seat of Marrickville and minimizing the increase of Greens votes in the Legislative Council.
3- Making the low representation of Non-English speaking people in parliament an election matter.
4- We were the only political group that campaigned on true progressive platform, where progressiveness meant siding with marginalized in their fight for equality. Unlike other “progressive” groups who were preaching progressiveness but practicing regressive ideas of excluding marginalized and promote Anti-family and Anti-moral values. Such campaigns that would result in deepening marginalization by increasing socio-economic problems as a result of deteriorating social bond of families and communities, increase individualism and increase depending on substances.
Our high moral ground includes our refusal to participate in Islamophobic campaigns through high restraint in dealing with sheikh Fayez fiasco. We were more restraint in dealing with this issue (despite the fact that we do not agree with any comment or teaching Mr Fayez launched or preached) than many Muslim religious figures and Muslim radio stations, who participated in fueling these campaigns by vending fiery comments.
In the next few weeks we will take further steps to capitalize on the already achieved goals and achievements. We will announce about them in due time.
Jamal Daoud
Spokesperson, Social Justice Network
Thursday, February 17, 2011
In the face of attack on boat people: SJN runs refugees arrived by boat for coming state election.
14 February 2011
In the face of growing attacks on the rights of refugees arriving by boats and the campaigns to demonise them by political parties, the Social Justice Network has decided to run refugee arrived by boat as candidate for highly multicultural seat of Lakemba. The main reason for this move is to give true picture about the successful integration of these people.
“Omar Quiader’s candidacy for the seat of Lakemba is a clear message to all conservative forces in the society that boat people is no threat to our society” said Jamal Daoud, spokesperson for the SJN and coordinator of the election campaign. “On the contrary. Despite the big obstacles put in front of their acceptance and successful integration in the society, they proved to be no different than any other Australian”
“Our campaign aims to put some human face on the issue of boat arrivals to this country. We want to demonstrate that Omar is normal person who does all in his capacity to advance the prosperity of this nation”
The candidacy will also send strong message to political parties claim to be progressive and supporting refugees rights. The simple message we aim to deliver to these politicians is that actions are always louder than talks.
“Fighting against racism and xenophobia and for real multiculturalism by media releases only is neither effective nor genuine. The so called “progressive” parties, especially the Greens, should understand that presenting to parliament a boat people would be enough to quell racist campaigns against boat arrivals”.
“On the other hand, failing to take practical step on this issue is a clear message that these political parties are using the plight of boat people (and general refugees and new migrants’) for electoral gains only. The fiery media releases during Federal campaigns with no practical steps to counteract racist campaigns are clear indication of Greens lack of any commitments to any social justice issue, including rights of refugees and asylum seekers”
“Such clear indications would be guiding us when discussing how to allocate our preferences in this election”.
Omar Quiader, who returned recently from trip to Gaza participating in Viva Palestina 5, is committed political campaigner for equal rights of marginalised groups. Omar will attend this Tuesday the funeral of victims of boat crashed off Christmas Island to pay his respect for the victims died en route to Australia seeking protection and better life.
For more information, Jamal Daoud can be contacted on 0404 447 272. Omar can be contacted on 0403 624 564.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Social-Justice-Networks-candidates-for-NSW-election-March-2011/129158060486055?sk=wall
In the face of growing attacks on the rights of refugees arriving by boats and the campaigns to demonise them by political parties, the Social Justice Network has decided to run refugee arrived by boat as candidate for highly multicultural seat of Lakemba. The main reason for this move is to give true picture about the successful integration of these people.
“Omar Quiader’s candidacy for the seat of Lakemba is a clear message to all conservative forces in the society that boat people is no threat to our society” said Jamal Daoud, spokesperson for the SJN and coordinator of the election campaign. “On the contrary. Despite the big obstacles put in front of their acceptance and successful integration in the society, they proved to be no different than any other Australian”
“Our campaign aims to put some human face on the issue of boat arrivals to this country. We want to demonstrate that Omar is normal person who does all in his capacity to advance the prosperity of this nation”
The candidacy will also send strong message to political parties claim to be progressive and supporting refugees rights. The simple message we aim to deliver to these politicians is that actions are always louder than talks.
“Fighting against racism and xenophobia and for real multiculturalism by media releases only is neither effective nor genuine. The so called “progressive” parties, especially the Greens, should understand that presenting to parliament a boat people would be enough to quell racist campaigns against boat arrivals”.
“On the other hand, failing to take practical step on this issue is a clear message that these political parties are using the plight of boat people (and general refugees and new migrants’) for electoral gains only. The fiery media releases during Federal campaigns with no practical steps to counteract racist campaigns are clear indication of Greens lack of any commitments to any social justice issue, including rights of refugees and asylum seekers”
“Such clear indications would be guiding us when discussing how to allocate our preferences in this election”.
Omar Quiader, who returned recently from trip to Gaza participating in Viva Palestina 5, is committed political campaigner for equal rights of marginalised groups. Omar will attend this Tuesday the funeral of victims of boat crashed off Christmas Island to pay his respect for the victims died en route to Australia seeking protection and better life.
For more information, Jamal Daoud can be contacted on 0404 447 272. Omar can be contacted on 0403 624 564.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Social-Justice-Networks-candidates-for-NSW-election-March-2011/129158060486055?sk=wall
Thursday, January 13, 2011
SJN runs candidates in NSW election on Real Multiculturalism and public services platforms
After deep disappointment of mainstream parties’ failures to field candidates from marginalised communities, the Social Justice Network decided to run candidates from these communities in the coming NSW election, March 2011.
“The SJN finds it very alarming that the mainstream parties represented in the state parliament failed to field new migrants as candidates for the next state election. Even the so-called progressive parties will run mainly English speaking candidates, despite the fact that NSW is the most multicultural state in Australia” said Jamal Daoud, spokesperson for the SJN and candidate for Auburn in the next election. “We find it difficult to believe that these parties could not find suitable candidates who speaks English as second language to run them in the election to represent the needs of new migrant voters”
“We run candidates to give practical example that the non-English speaking NSW residents have comprehensive understanding of political process and can be good politicians if given chance. Not only this. We want to demonstrate that new migrants who speaks English as second language are good citizens who will do everything they can to participate in advancing the prosperity of this nation”
In the wake of constant attacks on Multiculturalism in the society, we expected that “progressive” and “semi-progressive” political forces will take courageous steps to counteract these attacks. We believe that the best steps to achieve this would be by presenting non-English speaking politicians to lead the fight against racism and Islamophobia.
“Attacks on multiculturalism do not result in growing racism and Islamophobia only. It affects the successful integration of these groups and consequently affects their life style. We note the many researches about the growing discrimination in employment, for example, that prevents access of new migrants to jobs equal to their qualifications and expertise”
“Our repeated campaigns in the last few years during elections proved that NSW residents have great concerns over attacks on Multiculturalism and the lack of real multiculturalism in the society. It also demonstrates very clearly that voters are very disappointed from the mainstream parties (especially the Labor, Liberals and the Greens) on these issues”
The network will run its spokesperson and co-founder, the human rights campaigner, Jamal Daoud, for the seat of Auburn. There are discussions to run other candidates from marginalised communities in other high multicultural seats of Lakemba, Bankstown and Fairfield. The group will announce the names of candidates later on in the campaign.
The three mainstream parties should expect hard campaign and should come with some convincing arguments why their tickets lack new migrants names.
For more information or to arrange media talks, Jamal Daoud can be contacted on 0404 447 272
“The SJN finds it very alarming that the mainstream parties represented in the state parliament failed to field new migrants as candidates for the next state election. Even the so-called progressive parties will run mainly English speaking candidates, despite the fact that NSW is the most multicultural state in Australia” said Jamal Daoud, spokesperson for the SJN and candidate for Auburn in the next election. “We find it difficult to believe that these parties could not find suitable candidates who speaks English as second language to run them in the election to represent the needs of new migrant voters”
“We run candidates to give practical example that the non-English speaking NSW residents have comprehensive understanding of political process and can be good politicians if given chance. Not only this. We want to demonstrate that new migrants who speaks English as second language are good citizens who will do everything they can to participate in advancing the prosperity of this nation”
In the wake of constant attacks on Multiculturalism in the society, we expected that “progressive” and “semi-progressive” political forces will take courageous steps to counteract these attacks. We believe that the best steps to achieve this would be by presenting non-English speaking politicians to lead the fight against racism and Islamophobia.
“Attacks on multiculturalism do not result in growing racism and Islamophobia only. It affects the successful integration of these groups and consequently affects their life style. We note the many researches about the growing discrimination in employment, for example, that prevents access of new migrants to jobs equal to their qualifications and expertise”
“Our repeated campaigns in the last few years during elections proved that NSW residents have great concerns over attacks on Multiculturalism and the lack of real multiculturalism in the society. It also demonstrates very clearly that voters are very disappointed from the mainstream parties (especially the Labor, Liberals and the Greens) on these issues”
The network will run its spokesperson and co-founder, the human rights campaigner, Jamal Daoud, for the seat of Auburn. There are discussions to run other candidates from marginalised communities in other high multicultural seats of Lakemba, Bankstown and Fairfield. The group will announce the names of candidates later on in the campaign.
The three mainstream parties should expect hard campaign and should come with some convincing arguments why their tickets lack new migrants names.
For more information or to arrange media talks, Jamal Daoud can be contacted on 0404 447 272
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Chris Bowen announcement: Off-shore processing should be scraped
While the Social Justice Network is welcoming the minister for immigration’s reply to High Court ruling but consider the reply to be “so little so late” and lack any political courage. The SJN understands that the High Court ruling actually dismantled the validity of off-shore processing system, including the excision of thousands of Australian islands from migration zone.
“The minister reply was lacking any political context. He affirmed that the government will comply to the ruling, as it constitutionally and legally should” said Jamal Daoud, the spokesperson of SJN. “The minister should have gone further and declared the death of off-shore processing regimes”
“Now, regardless of the way you arrive to Australia, all asylum seekers will have access to legal system. In practical terms, the off-shore processing system is buried and cremated”
“But the minister did not tell us also how his department will deal with the lengthy delays in processing of cases. Some of these asylum seekers are in detention centers for more than 1.5 years and suffering from deep mental health issues”
We expect that ALL detainees will apply for judicial review. This will flood the judicial system with cases. But it also means that the detention centers overcrowding and flourishing of mental health troubles.
“The department should expect that it will deal with some unrest, protests and even desperate action by unstable detainees. The minister should have announced some progressive steps to avoid this”
“The minister should have considered taking some steps in this regard. Steps like releasing long time detainees and detainees with mental health problems into community on temporary visas until their cases finalized”.
“The government will have blood on their hands if more detainees will lose their lives inside detention centers waiting for judicial review and release”.
“The department’s own statistics show very clearly that the overwheliming majority of boat people arrived to Australia in the last decades are genuine refugees. The government has responsibility to insure quick status determination, as per Labor own policy to not keep any detainee more than 3 months in detention”.
Later on, and after the majority of these detainees will be found to be refugees, we will have enough time to ask the Labor immigration ministers why panic during election campaign resulted in the high rejection of genuine refugees and the consequent overcrowding and deep troubles inside detention centers, including suicide of many asylum seekers.
The government should have the courage to announce progressive steps to release the largest bulk of detainees on temporary visas until judicial system finalized. The government should have also some courage to announce the end of off-shore processing system. The smaller partners of the government (mainly the Greens, who flourished on asylum seekers’ issues) should demand change of policy now.
The SJN still believe and still fight to see the mandatory detention system scrapped altogether. Australia should end playing political football with this highly humanitarian issue. Such game costs lives and social cohesion.
Any resort from the Liberal opposition to play the game of claiming that these changes will encourage people smugglers activities should be condemned by strongest words. The people smugglers work never stopped in the history. If opposition are serious to stop people smuggling activities, they should help in ending conflicts and social injustices around the globe. Such conflicts and injusticies that are playing major role as pushing factors.
For more information or to arrange media talks, Jamal Daoud can be contacted on 0404 447 272
“The minister reply was lacking any political context. He affirmed that the government will comply to the ruling, as it constitutionally and legally should” said Jamal Daoud, the spokesperson of SJN. “The minister should have gone further and declared the death of off-shore processing regimes”
“Now, regardless of the way you arrive to Australia, all asylum seekers will have access to legal system. In practical terms, the off-shore processing system is buried and cremated”
“But the minister did not tell us also how his department will deal with the lengthy delays in processing of cases. Some of these asylum seekers are in detention centers for more than 1.5 years and suffering from deep mental health issues”
We expect that ALL detainees will apply for judicial review. This will flood the judicial system with cases. But it also means that the detention centers overcrowding and flourishing of mental health troubles.
“The department should expect that it will deal with some unrest, protests and even desperate action by unstable detainees. The minister should have announced some progressive steps to avoid this”
“The minister should have considered taking some steps in this regard. Steps like releasing long time detainees and detainees with mental health problems into community on temporary visas until their cases finalized”.
“The government will have blood on their hands if more detainees will lose their lives inside detention centers waiting for judicial review and release”.
“The department’s own statistics show very clearly that the overwheliming majority of boat people arrived to Australia in the last decades are genuine refugees. The government has responsibility to insure quick status determination, as per Labor own policy to not keep any detainee more than 3 months in detention”.
Later on, and after the majority of these detainees will be found to be refugees, we will have enough time to ask the Labor immigration ministers why panic during election campaign resulted in the high rejection of genuine refugees and the consequent overcrowding and deep troubles inside detention centers, including suicide of many asylum seekers.
The government should have the courage to announce progressive steps to release the largest bulk of detainees on temporary visas until judicial system finalized. The government should have also some courage to announce the end of off-shore processing system. The smaller partners of the government (mainly the Greens, who flourished on asylum seekers’ issues) should demand change of policy now.
The SJN still believe and still fight to see the mandatory detention system scrapped altogether. Australia should end playing political football with this highly humanitarian issue. Such game costs lives and social cohesion.
Any resort from the Liberal opposition to play the game of claiming that these changes will encourage people smugglers activities should be condemned by strongest words. The people smugglers work never stopped in the history. If opposition are serious to stop people smuggling activities, they should help in ending conflicts and social injustices around the globe. Such conflicts and injusticies that are playing major role as pushing factors.
For more information or to arrange media talks, Jamal Daoud can be contacted on 0404 447 272
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