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10 Feb, 4 tweets, 2 min read
It’s me, Tharnicaa. Kopika and I brought mummy and daddy - Priya and Nades - to question time. We’ve been detained by the Australian Government for 1073 days. How many people live with you and how many bedrooms are there? #HomeToBilo #Auspol
The first time I stayed w/ my partner in the Philippines, he had one small studio room w/ his children. No shower, only cold water and a camping gas stove. My partner's door was always open to his children's friends who had no food or routine. One of the many reasons I love him.
I had never felt so at home. The happiest family I’ve met. Everyone respecting each others space, sharing what they had, tidied up after themselves. Whenever an elder came the children took the palm of the elder’s hand and put it on the the child’s forehead as a sign of respect.

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11 Feb
For the Prime Minister of Australia:

Dear Scott Morrison,

I am writing to you because I am concerned about Australia’s refugee policy and human rights record. 1/20
Australia appeared before the United Nations Human Rights Council for its Universal Periodic Review in Geneva on January 20, 2021. More than 40 nations questioned Australia’s policies toward asylum seekers and refugees. 2/20
The 2021 Human Rights Watch concluded: “It is disappointing to see Australia doubling down on policies that have caused immense harm to asylum seekers and are repeatedly condemned by the United Nations and other governments. 3/20
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10 Feb
The Andrew and Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at the University of NSW Sydney is the world’s leading research centre dedicated to the study of international refugee law. 1/10 #GameOver #HomeToBilo #Auspol
Beautifully, the Centre was founded in October 2013 by former “refugees” Andrew and Renata Kaldor who were awarded honorary doctorates by the University of NSW Sydney in November 2018. 2/10 #GameOver #HomeToBilo #Auspol
The Centre undertakes rigorous research on the most pressing displacement issues in Australia, the Asia-Pacific region and around the world, and contributes to public policy by promoting legal, sustainable and humane solutions to forced migration. 3/10 #GameOver #HomeToBilo
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10 Feb
“Give it time and we wonder why. Do what we can, laugh and we cry. And we sleep in your dust because we've seen this all before. Culture fades with tears and grace. Leaving us stunned hollow with shame. We have seen this all, seen this all before.” 1/9 @RobertArnol
“Many tribes of a modern kind, doing brand new work same spirit by side, joining hearts and hands and ancestral twine, ancestral twine. Many tribes of a modern kind, doing brand new work same spirit by side, joining hearts and hands and ancestral twine, ancestral twine.” 2/9
“And slowly it fades. Slowly we fade. And slowly you fade. Spirit bird she creaks and groans. She knows she has seen this all before. She has seen this all before, she has. Spirit bird she creaks & groans. She knows she has seen this all before. She has seen this all before.” 3/9
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9 Feb
It’s me, Tharnicaa. Kopika’s awake now! We’ve been detained by the Australian Government for 1072 days. What’s your favourite subject and why? #HomeToBilo #Auspol
That's easy! Psychology. Why? Because when you learn to make truth the only authority of your life you can always be free. People can try to take away your freedom, but no one can ever take away our greatest treasures: our mind, our hearts and our spirit.
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9 Feb
The #TimeForAHome coalition will present this petition to parliament next week requesting the immediate release of people seeking asylum and refugees from detention and into a safe home by World Refugee Day. Please sign:
1/9 #Auspol #GameOver #HomeToBilo
 action.asrc.org.au/time-for-a-home
“We call on the Government to immediately release people seeking asylum and refugees from immigration detention facilities, and commit to their resettlement in a safe, permanent home by World Refugee Day, 20 June 2021.”2/9
No matter where we’re from/how we got here, everyone needs a safe place to call home. For the past 7 years, successive governments have enacted harmful policies against people seeking asylum, including the indefinite detention of everyone who arrived by boat after July 2013.  3/9
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Australia appeared before the UN Human Rights Council for its Universal Periodic Review in Geneva on January 20, 2021. The UN review made it clear that the Australian government hasn’t followed through on some of its key past pledges to the UN Human Rights Council. 1/11
“UN member countries rightly criticized Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers and questioned why incarceration rates of First Nations peoples remain so high,” said Elaine Pearson, Australia director at Human Rights Watch. 2/11
Australia informed this review that it had carried out in full or in part 183 out of 290 recommendations from its 2015 review.
However, more than 40 nations questioned Australia’s policies toward asylum seekers and refugees, from Brazil to Germany, South Korea to the US. 3/11
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