<table id=cafe_editor_main_table_color bgColor='#e4f7ba' cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 width=100%><tr><td id=cafe_editor_main_table class=text><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><h2><span style="color: rgb(102, 75, 0); font-size: 18pt;">Australia bishops slam Canberra's new asylum seeker law</span></h2><p class="subtitles"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>New policy 'unethical' and calls into question the country's 'morality'</strong></span></p><p class="subtitles"><br></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img class="big-img" alt="<p>Boats filled with asylum seekers cross the sea towards Australia (Credit: Antonio Gonsalves/CNA)</p>" src="http://www.ucanews.com/uploads/2014/12/1418275321.jpg"> </p><span class="img-txtz"><p style="text-align: center;"><br></p><p>Boats filled with asylum seekers cross the sea towards Australia (Credit: Antonio Gonsalves/CNA)</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br></p></span><div class="country-list"><ul><li>Antonio Anup Gonsalves for CNA/EWTN News</li><li>Australia</li><li>December 11, 2014</li></ul></div><p class="sharelist"><br></p><div class="sharelist"><ul><li><div class=" fb_reset" id="fb-root" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="top: -10000px; width: 0px; height: 0px; position: absolute;"><div><iframe name="fb_xdm_frame_http" tabindex="-1" title="Facebook Cross Domain Communication Frame" id="fb_xdm_frame_http" aria-hidden="true" src="http://static.ak.facebook.com/connect/xd_arbiter/7r8gQb8MIqE.js?version=41#channel=f3e2b4fe5196f1c&origin=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ucanews.com" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="border: currentColor; border-image: none;" allowtransparency="true"></iframe><iframe name="fb_xdm_frame_https" tabindex="-1" title="Facebook Cross Domain Communication Frame" id="fb_xdm_frame_https" aria-hidden="true" src="https://s-static.ak.facebook.com/connect/xd_arbiter/7r8gQb8MIqE.js?version=41#channel=f3e2b4fe5196f1c&origin=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ucanews.com" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="border: currentColor; border-image: none;" allowtransparency="true"></iframe></div></div><div style="top: -10000px; width: 0px; height: 0px; position: absolute;"><div></div></div><span style="width: 121px; height: 20px; vertical-align: bottom;"><br></span></div></li><li style="width: 85px;">
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<br></p></li></ul></div><ul><div class="clear"></div></ul><div class="clear"></div><div class="main-txt-news"><p>The Australian bishops' office for migrants and refugees has termed “unethical” legislation signed into law last week that gives the national government unprecedented powers to deal toughly with asylum seekers.</p><p><br></p><p>The Migration and Maritime Powers Legislation Amendment (the Asylum Legacy Caseload) Bill 2014 was narrowly passed in the Australian senate on December 5, and then passed the house of representatives by a wide margin.</p><p><br></p><p>The new legislation allows Australian officials to redefine who is classified as a refugee, and allows them to push any asylum seeker boat back into the sea, leaving it there.</p><p><br></p><p>According to the new amendments in the act, the government can block an asylum seeker, detain people without charge, or deport them, and these decisions cannot be challenged.</p><p><br></p><p>Fr Maurizio Pettena, director of the Australian Catholic Migrant and Refugee Office, accused the Government of “bartering children to secure passage of Amendments to Australia's Immigration Act” and characterized this as a "new all time low for Australian politics.”</p><p><br></p><p>“Not only is the content of this bill unethical, but equally so is the nature in which it has been conducted by the Immigration Minister [Scott Morrison],” Fr Pettena continued. “Children were bartered to secure this deal.”</p><p><br></p><p>Fr Pettena said that “when a government lowers its policies to essentially bargaining vulnerable people for political gain, it raises questions about our morality as a people. Having children detained in the first instance was not an acceptable option.”

</p><p> </p><p><strong>Full Story: </strong><a href="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/australian-catholic-migrant-office-slams-new-asylum-seekers-law-50611/" target="_blank"><u><font color="#0066cc">Australian Catholic migrant office slams new asylum seekers law</font></u></a></p><p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/" target="_blank"><u><font color="#0066cc">Catholic News Agency</font></u></a></p><p><br></p><p><br></p></div><p><br></p></tr></td></table>
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14/12/11 Australia bishops slam Canberra's new asylum seeker law - New policy 'unethical' and calls into question the country's 'morality'
