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...Australian government, but he can't shake free of the four years he spent in detention fighting for that recognition, or forget the attempted suicides, mental illness and mistreatment he saw there. He still becomes upset when he talks of the friends he left behind. "They have to wait without any future," he says, "If you can't even write your name in English, how can you fight for your rights in the courts of Australia?" Instituted by a Labor government in the early 1990s, Australia's policy of detaining all who arrive on its shores illegally has been continued...
...decision, and Time has been told that for many of these people, Australia's system for processing visa claims is not moving quickly enough. It's claimed cases are so hampered by delays, challenged decisions and inadequate legal advice that some people who are eventually deemed genuine refugees wait in detention, often with damaging pyschological results, for years. Recently released on a temporary protection visa, Farhad doesn't want to give his real name for fear that he might jeopardize his chances of being allowed to live in Australia permanently. But when the 31-year-old Iranian was stopped nearly...
...thought it would be "two or three months and then I could be released to be a good community member for Australia." It would be four and a half years before his case was finally decided. South Australian lawyer Claire O'Connor says the Baxter detainees she represents routinely wait more than a year for court judgments, of which they may have several. The troubles of one 21-year-old Afghani who won his case late last year after four years locked up is, she says, typical: "He can't sleep, he can't eat, he has panic attacks...
...month into his tenure, Abbas is beginning to realize that if he hopes to make progress toward peace, he can't afford to wait. With last week's declaration of a truce between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, relations between the two sides have reached their warmest level in years--owing in large part to Abbas' willingness to confront the violence that wreaked havoc on Palestinian society under Yasser Arafat. But Abbas is in an excruciating bind. While he needs to move fast to accommodate Israeli demands, he also risks reprisals from his own people that could cost...
While students say they are glad to have the opportunity to play on international-size courts, some worry that with fewer courts available, they may have to wait for playing space. Post-renovation, there will only be three courts, and Robert D.A. Campbell ’08 observed that there are currently almost always at least three courts occupied...