2005: Seeking Asylum Conference - Institute for Public History and the Australian Centre for the Study of Jewish Civilization
Conference Papers
The conference "Seeking Asylum in Australia: 1995-2005 Experiences and Policies" was held 27-28 November 2005. Susan Aykut, Deputy Director of the Institute for Public History, Monash University, and Jessie Taylor, board member of the Justice Project and Arts/Law student at Monash, have compiled twelve papers from that conference and present them here in PDF format. The proceedings are "unedited" insofar as they have not been subject to the rigors of a review process. As Jessie Taylor points out in her introduction to the proceedings, although the papers represent a "retrospective" phase in Australia's treatment of asylum seekers, that phase very much informs the directions that treatment will take in the future. Available for download are the complete proceedings as well as each individual paper. The website links indicated in the proceedings are correct as of 8 August 2006. Some websites cited in the proceedings have either moved or are no longer available; sites that have moved since 2005 are listed on the final page of the proceedings.
- Seeking Asylum in Australia: 1995-2005 Experiences and Policies complete PDF (1.6 MB)
- Introduction to the proceedings (PDF 252 KB)
- Matthew Albert: "Australian Refugee Policy from an African Perspective" (PDF 176 KB)
- Julian Burnside: "What the Government Will Do If They Can Get Away With It" (PDF 200 KB)
- Michael Clyne: "Words Excusing Exclusion" (PDF 160 KB)
- David Corlett: "Do We Have Obligations To Those We Sent Back?" (PDF 172 KB)
- Michael Gordon: "The Media's Performance: An Insider's View" (PDF 168 KB)
- Ida Kaplan: "Pursuing Justice and Recovery for Asylum Seekers: A Psychological Perspective" (PDF 220 KB)
- Susan Kneebone: "The Legal and Ethical Implications of Extra-Territorial Processing of Asylum Seekers: Europe Follows Australia" (PDF 180 KB)
- Bernadette McSherry: "Providing Mental Health Services and Psychiatric Care to Immigration Detainees: What the Law Requires" (PDF 216 KB)
- Klaus Neumann: "Seeking Asylum in Australia: A Historical Perspective" (PDF 192 KB)
- Jessie Taylor: "Culture Shock: Australian Youth Responding to Refugees" (PDF 156 KB)
- Stancea Vichie: "Home Is Not Home Until Human Rights Are Respected" (PDF 160 KB)
- Spencer Zifcak: "No Way Out: The High Court, Asylum Seekers and Human Rights" (PDF 122 KB)
- Relevant Publications and Websites (PDF 144 KB)