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The refugee fetish

16 February 2017

3:00 PM

16 February 2017

3:00 PM

On February 8, the Australian published a full page advertisement paid for by 72 organisations calling for the evacuation of the refugee camps on Nauru and Manus Island. According to the signatories to the statement, the people in those camps should be brought immediately to Australia. Among the organisations funding the advertisement were the usual suspects such as Oxfam and Amnesty International, but others, such as ‘Grandmothers Against Detention of Refugee Children’, ‘Love Make A Way’ or ‘Mums 4 Refugees’ were less well known.

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