No Phones No Life: Stop the Bill

No Phones No Life: Stop the Bill

The Government is proposing a new law that would ban mobile phones in immigration detention. 

Not only is the Government trying to fix a problem that doesn’t exist, the proposed law as it stands would violate international rules concerning the treatment of detainees. In this case, people who are being held for purely administrative purposes. They have committed no crime. 

The United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Mandela Rules) stress the need for people to be able to communicate with family and friends at regular intervals, stay connected with their community and foster an ...

The Government is proposing a new law that would ban mobile phones in immigration detention. 

Not only is the Government trying to fix a problem that doesn’t exist, the proposed law as it stands would violate international rules concerning the treatment of detainees. In this case, people who are being held for purely administrative purposes. They have committed no crime. 

The United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Mandela Rules) stress the need for people to be able to communicate with family and friends at regular intervals, stay connected with their community and foster an improved relationship with family. 

Medical experts have already expressed concern with keeping vulnerable people in detention during the COVID-19 crisis. A Bill that would force hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers to share phones and computers at this time is an extraordinary and unnecessary risk during a global pandemic.

Make your phone call today and demand that decision makers oppose the Bill in the senate.

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PHONE PETER DUTTON

Call Peter Dutton

Peter Dutton Peter Dutton Minister for Home Affairs 02 6277 7860

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  • Introduce yourself and where you live eg. Hi, I’m Tara calling from Mt Gravatt, Queensland

  • Ask to leave a message with his office. Tell them that you are concerned about the wellbeing of refugees if they are to lose access to their mobile phones and that you want Australia to uphold international rules

  • Ask him to withdraw the Prohibiting Items Bill from the Parliament 

  • Thank them for their time

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