Friday 29th of March 2024

the white supremacist...

duttonio

South Africa has demanded Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton retract his comments that the country's white farmers are being "persecuted" and deserve protection with special visas from a "civilised country".

Key points:
  • South Africa hauled in Canberra's High Commissioner for diplomatic ticking off
  • Commenting on a documentary, Mr Dutton said the farmers "need help from a civilised country like ours"
  • South African Government denies whites deliberately targeted, says farm murders part of a wider violent crime problem

 

Pretoria hauled in Canberra's High Commissioner for a diplomatic ticking off over Mr Dutton's remarks, which also included a description of white farmers facing "horrific circumstances" — a characterisation South Africa has rejected.

"The South African Government is offended by the statements which have been attributed to the Australian Home Affairs Minister and a full retraction is expected," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Commenting this week on a documentary about violent rural crime in South Africa, Mr Dutton said the farmers deserved "special attention" from Australia.

"I do think, on the information that I've seen, people do need help and they need help from a civilised country like ours," Mr Dutton said.

He also pointed to plans by new President Cyril Ramaphosa to allow expropriation of land as a solution to the massive land-ownership inequalities that remain more than two decades after the end of apartheid.

Speaking to Parliament this week, Mr Ramaphosa said South Africa was not heading down the road towards the type of violent and chaotic seizure of white-owned farms that triggered economic collapse in Zimbabwe nearly 20 years ago.

 

Read more:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-16/south-africa-wants-apology-from-du...

duttonio the offender...

Pretoria summoned Canberra’s high commissioner over Dutton’s remarks, which also included a description of white farmers facing “horrific circumstances”, a characterisation South Africa has rejected.

“The South African government is offended by the statements which have been attributed to the Australian home affairs minister and a full retraction is expected,” the foreign ministry said in a statement.

 

read more:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/mar/16/south-africa-pete...

white white white...

Bringing white South African farmers to Australia as part of a special humanitarian program would be a return to the White Australia policy, Greens leader Richard Di Natale has said.

Key points:
  • South Africa hauled in Canberra's High Commissioner for diplomatic ticking off
  • Commenting on a documentary, Mr Dutton said the farmers "need help from a civilised country like ours"
  • South African Government denies whites deliberately targeted, says farm murders part of a wider violent crime problem

 

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton said white South African farmers are being persecuted and need to be brought to safety in Australia.

Senator Di Natale called that racist.

"There's no debate as far as I'm concerned, the bloke is an out-and-out racist," Senator Di Natale said.

"According to Peter Dutton, if you're a white South African farmer you are going to make a great contribution, you're not going to bludge on welfare.

"But if you're not white, you won't do any of those things."

 

Read more:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-16/south-africa-wants-apology-from-du...

racist racist racist...

News’s campaign on the issue included reporting and two crucial columns by Miranda Devine and Caroline Marcus, which argued that the the latest moves on land reform put the country’s farmers in grave peril. 

In announcing his interest in their plight, Dutton, Australia’s home affairs minister, said “I think these people deserve special attention and we’re certainly applying that special attention now”. He described them as people who would easily “integrate into our society”.


Earlier, Devine had written about the kinship between Australians and “our oppressed white, Christian, industrious, rugby and cricket-playing Commonwealth cousins”, saying that they would “integrate seamlessly”. 

Marcus had connected the situation to a broader picture of what she described as “reverse racism”, writing that “the truth is, there are versions of this anti-white, vengeance theme swirling in movements around the western world, from Black Lives Matter in the US to Invasion Day protests back home”. 

By emphasising white kinship and white peril, the paper’s columnists may have gotten the result they were looking for. But they weren’t the only outlet on 12 March to urge their government to help the farmers.

 

Read more:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/16/peter-duttons-offe...

a racist detention by the duttonian government...

Issac Gatkuoth was born in Sudan before moving with this family to Egypt, where they spent time in refugee camps. A few years later, they were granted humanitarian visas for Australia.

“IT’S BEING USED AS A PUNITIVE AND SOCIAL CONTROL RESPONSE AGAINST CERTAIN POPULATIONS FOR POLITICAL REASONS.”

Now 20, Issac arrived in Australia along with his older siblings when he was nine years old. Margaret says he applied for Australian citizenship a few years ago, but he was denied and instead remained as a permanent resident. Other members of the family have successfully obtained their Australian citizenship.

Margaret says that about the age of 15, her brother got involved with the “wrong crowds”. He engaged in anti-social behaviour and took drugs.

“I was quite surprised when all of this happened,” she says. “He was quite normal. He would come home and eat with us and get ready for school. I was quite surprised when I found out about the things he was accused of.”

Issac became an ice addict and suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder. He started getting into trouble with the law in 2015 and by the end of May 2016 he was convicted of theft, carjacking and drug possession. He was sentenced to serve 16 months.

In the course of the carjacking, a shotgun was pointed at the driver, a young man named Sam Newman. Months later, Newman would take his own life. His mother and the Herald Sun blamed Issac. His mother would tell the paper that Issac had “forfeited his right to remain in Australia”.

There is a petition online calling for his deportation that has garnered more than 16,000 signatures.

Margaret shows me a photo of her brother and I recognise his face, which was splashed on the front pages of the Herald Sun during the height of the so-called Apex Gang coverage. He was described as a “leader of the pack”. After the paper revealed he was nearing release, Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton’s department cancelled his visa. In December, he was transferred to the detention centre on Christmas Island where he is awaiting deportation.

“There are many of them,” Margaret says of the men like her brother on Christmas Island. “More than nine South Sudanese men are there.”

These men have served jail sentences and been punished to the satisfaction of the courts. But they are now being held indefinitely, with the expectation they will be deported. This is a kind of double punishment: meted once by the courts, and then by the minister.

According to Margaret, her brother failed the character test and although he has tried to appeal Dutton’s decision to cancel his visa, the minister has refused to reinstate it. Margaret says he is considering re-appealing that decision.

Issac Gatkuoth’s visa was cancelled under section 501 of the Migration Act 1958, which gives the immigration minister the power to cancel or refuse a visa on character grounds. A visa may be cancelled if the minister reasonably suspects the visa holder fails the “character test” – a broad definition that includes everything from having a substantial criminal record to escaping immigration detention to being suspected of engaging in future “unacceptable conduct”. A conviction of more than 12 months is considered a “serious offence”.

Read more:

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-crime/2018/03/31/dutton-use...

an ambiguous retraction...

The South African Government has welcomed Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's "retraction" of his Home Affairs Minister's comments regarding "persecuted" white South African farmers.

Key points:
  • Peter Dutton said white South African farmers were facing land seizures and violence, he wanted to explore special visas for them
  • Malcolm Turnbull, Julie Bishop reiterated Australia's non-discriminatory immigration policy, ruled out special visa category
  • South African Foreign Minister interpreted statement as a "retraction" of the Home Affairs Minister's comments

 

Peter Dutton caused a diplomatic row last month when he said white farmers were facing "horrific circumstances" in South Africa and deserved "special attention" from a civilised country.

Pretoria immediately rejected Mr Dutton's concerns, demanded a retraction and called in Australia's High Commissioner to explain. 

Since then, Mr Turnbull and Foreign Minister Julie Bishop have reiterated Australia has a non-discriminatory immigration policy and ruled out a special humanitarian intake, or visa category, for white farmers.

Those remarks have been interpreted by South Africa's Foreign Minister Lindiwe Sisulu as a "retraction" of Mr Dutton's comments. 

"We welcome the assurance by the Australian Government as reported in the media that the comments made by their Home Affairs Minister are not in line with Australian immigration policy," Ms Sisulu said in a statement.

 

Read more:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-03/turnbull-clarifies-immigration-aft...

 

Nonetheless, Dutton should be sacked. Read from top.

no retraction...

The Australian home affairs minister, Peter Dutton, has denied that the Australian government retracted his offer for white South African farmers to come to Australia on humanitarian visas.

A spokesperson for Dutton reportedly issued the denial after the South African government claimed Australia had gone back on plans to offer fast-track humanitarian visas to “persecuted” white farmers.

The difference of opinion suggests Australia has attempted to smooth over offence caused by Dutton but will still consider white South African farmers for humanitarian visas, despite the United Nations high commissioner for refugees warning that refugees should be prioritised.

Dutton triggered outrage in March when he said the farmers deserved “special attention” for visas to Australia on humanitarian grounds.

He said the home affairs department was examining options to enable the farmers to flee their “horrific circumstances” for a “civilised country”.

 

Read more:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/03/south-africa-hails-retract...

 

Slowly grinding us down with crap and countercrap...

ignore him, she says...

South African foreign ministry officials say they “could not believe” Peter Dutton’s comments about immigration and that when they asked Australia’s foreign minister, Julie Bishop, about them she effectively said they should ignore him.

In comments to Guardian Australia, Dutton has again rejected claims that Australia has retracted its offer to white South African farmers to settle them in Australia on humanitarian visas.

 

Read more:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/apr/04/julie-bishop-advi...

 

Never seen such a viciously conflicted government appear calm and decontracted...