{"id":1857,"date":"2012-07-12T16:22:04","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T05:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/?p=1857"},"modified":"2012-07-12T16:22:04","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T05:22:04","slug":"rac-forum-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/?p=1857","title":{"rendered":"RAC forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt;color:blue;\"><strong>Deaths at sea, people smuggling and border security:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:18pt;color:blue;\"><strong>HOW &#8220;STOPPING THE BOATS&#8221; PUTS REFUGEE LIVES AT RISK<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><strong>Speakers:<a href=\"http:\/\/refugeeactioncoalitionsydney.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/rescue.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1860\" title=\"Rescue\" src=\"http:\/\/refugeeactioncoalitionsydney.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/rescue.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/rescue.jpg 500w, https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/rescue-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14pt;\"><strong>TONY KEVIN<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nAuthor new book <a href=\"http:\/\/reluctantrescuers.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Reluctant Rescuers<\/em><\/a> on \u2018border protection\u2019 and <em>A Certain Maritime Incident<\/em> on SIEV X<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:14pt;\"><strong>ROBIN DE CRESPIGNY<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nAuthor <em>The People Smuggler: The Oskar Schindler of Asia?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>6pm Monday August 6, Teachers\u2019 Federation building<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> 23-33 Mary St, Surry Hills (near Central station)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Gillard government claims offshore processing to \u201cstop the boats\u201d can save lives. But in fact it is Australia\u2019s regime of criminalising people smuggling, which forces refugees to take unsafe boats, and the instructions to customs that their aim is to stop boats, not detect and rescue those in trouble, that have cost lives. This forum hear from two speakers who have investigated how.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Kevin&#8217;s new book Reluctant Rescuers can be purchased online at <a href=\"http:\/\/reluctantrescuers.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/reluctantrescuers.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read a review of Robin de Crespigny&#8217;s book <em>The People Smuggler<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/2012\/05\/30\/ali-jenabi-smuggling-refugees-to-freedom\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deaths at sea, people smuggling and border security: HOW &#8220;STOPPING THE BOATS&#8221; PUTS REFUGEE LIVES AT RISK Speakers: TONY KEVIN Author new book Reluctant Rescuers on \u2018border protection\u2019 and A Certain Maritime Incident on SIEV X ROBIN DE CRESPIGNY Author The People Smuggler: The Oskar Schindler of Asia? 6pm Monday August 6, Teachers\u2019 Federation building [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311091,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-upcoming-events"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/311091"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}