Description - Refugees, Morality and Public Policy: The Jesuit Lenten Seminars 2002 & 2000 by Mark Raper
Since 1999, the Jesuit Lenten Seminar series have drawn increasing audiences in venues around Australian. This book gathers the papers from the 2002 series- Australian's Refugee Policy: Facts, Needs and Limits- and from the related topics from 2000- Public Policy Abroad and Morality and Public Policy in Australia. 'Refugees from distant countries must be astonished that their misfortunes could make or break the fortunes of a democratically electe country in a stable, prosperous countries like Australia. Returning to Australia after 20 years, I too am quite surprised by hwat I am learning of Australian;s refugee and asylum practice'.- Mark Raper 'The goal of current asylum policy appears to be that no unvisated person will land in Australia. . The government argues that the correctness of such a goal justifies (its) measures. The argument that the end justifies the means is the antithesis of morality.'
-Mark Raper 'Now that the election is well past, surely it is time for government and all major political parties to concede that asylum seekers are not criminals and that their detention should not be any more dehumanising than their detenton should not be any more dehumanising than that imposed upon convicted criminals.' -Frank Brennan
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