Press Release November 3, 2010<\/p>\n
The Refugee Action Coalition today condemned Tony Abbott\u2019s visit to Inverbrackie for stirring anti-refugee and racist sentiments in the community.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe man who once like to boast about his role in undermining One Nation is now openly encouraging the racism and the re-emergence of Hanson\u2019s party,\u201d said Ian Rintoul, spokesperson for the Refugee Action Coalition.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere Abbott\u2019s mentor, John Howard, was happy to dog whistle his support for Hanson, Abbott is now openly encouraging the crackpots of the racist right.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was John Howard\u2019s anti-refugee policies that encouraged the racism and Islamophobia that led to the Cronulla riots in 2005. Now Abbott is trying to put the Liberal Party at head of inflaming those same sentiments.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe anti-refugee sentiments shamefully on display in Inverbrackie and Northam are a direct result of the race to the bottom between the Liberal and Labor parties before, during and after the election. It is not the racism in the community that is the real problem; it is the racism and dog whistling of our political leaders.<\/p>\n
\u201cRather than stand up to the Liberals fear mongering about boats, Julia Gillard caved in. Her proposal for a regional processing centre in East Timor sends the message that asylum seekers are not welcome in Australia. The unprincipled position has left the door open to the disgraceful policies espoused by Tony Abbott.<\/p>\n
\u201cJohn Howard and Pauline Hanson\u2019s anti-refugee policies were beaten by the efforts of the grassroots refugee movement exposing the myths behind the fear mongering. If Tony Abbott thinks the Liberals will win support by encouraging and appealing to racism, he better think again.<\/p>\n
\u201cA recent Red Cross poll showed that over 80 percent of Australians would be willing to assist refugees to settle in Australia. The noisy public meetings in Northam and Inverbrackie are not representative of the wider community.\u201c<\/p>\n
For more information contact Ian Rintoul 0417 275 713<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Press Release November 3, 2010 The Refugee Action Coalition today condemned Tony Abbott\u2019s visit to Inverbrackie for stirring anti-refugee and racist sentiments in the community. \u201cThe man who once like to boast about his role in undermining One Nation is now openly encouraging the racism and the re-emergence of Hanson\u2019s party,\u201d said Ian Rintoul, spokesperson […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311091,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","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=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}