Letters to Editors (2006)
The letters on these pages are sent by the department to media outlets following publication or broadcasting of items of portfolio interest.
2006
November
- Decade of Disgrace (Canterbury-Bankstown Express) 22 November
September
- Refugee aid is world-class (Blacktown Sun) 12 September
- Plenty of help for Refugees (Armidale Express) 11 September
August
- Toowoomba Bishop concerned about regional migrants’ rights (cathnews.com) 30 August
- Character taken into account (Northern Territory News) 25 August
- Detention costs fail to add up (Northern Territory News) 19 August
- Letters (West Australian) 17 August
July
- Vanstone wants strike team to tackle visa rorts (Australian Financial Review) 20 July
May
- Foreign Influx Erodes Wages (Courier Mail) 24 May
- Five lives lost (Cairns Post) 20 May
- Innocence for sale (Marie Claire) 18 May
- Government importing AIDS threat (The West Australian) 15 May
- Please Explain (The West Australian) 8 May
- Will we be a colony of the third world? (The Northern Daily Leader) 6 May
April
- DIMA's Tastan deportation (Australian Financial Review) 28 April 2006
- Moving concern (Sydney Morning Herald) 12 April 2006
- Recognising the Papuan debacle (Byron Shire Echo) 3 April 2006
March
- Migrant health tests linked to outbreaks (The West Australian) 30 March 2006
- Meeting aims to clear visa issues (The Bendigo Advertiser) 29 March 2006
- Borders breached (Herald Sun) 17 March 2006
- Former asylum seeker claims jail fear was ignored (The Age) 15 March 2006
- Recent criticism of the Trade Skills Training Visa (TSTV) is nothing more than scaremongering. (Gladstone Observer) 14 March 2006
- The Opinion piece (Desperate refugees and deadly diseases, 10/03/06) gets the facts wrong (Daily Telegraph) 10 March 2006
February
- What happens when you flee African war for Sydney Confusion (Daily Telegraph, 28 February 2006
- Turkish apprentice jockeys (The Australian Financial Review) 3 February 2006