Refugee royal commission petition a hit

BY PIP HINMAN

More than 10,100 people have signed an online petition supporting
a call for a royal commission into the government's treatment of asylum
seekers. Out of thousands of active petitions from all over the world listed
on the Petition Online website, it was among the top ten for several weeks
during the media exposure of the Coalition government's lies about the
“children overboard” incident.

Along with growing protests against the bipartisan laws on refugees
and various parliamentary inquiries, the petition campaign for a royal
commission is tapping a growing revulsion with Australia's racist refugee
policies. Many signatories have expressed some moving comments. Check it
out for yourself at <http://www.petitiononline.com/ausrefug/>
and also <http://www.refugee.royal.commission.org>.

From Green Left Weekly, March 20, 2002.

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