Graham Thom
Dr Graham Thom has been Amnesty International Australia’s Refugee Coordinator since 2000, working on behalf of individual asylum seekers as well as on broader human rights issues relating to refugees.
Dr Thom has visited refugee camps and detention centres in India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Syria, Iraq and Australia. In 2009, he visited Christmas Island for the second time.
Dr Thom publishes and lectures on domestic and international refugee issues and has represented Amnesty International at UNHCR’s Annual Tripartite Consultation on Resettlement in Geneva for the past three years. He completed his doctoral thesis on post-war migration at the University of Sydney in 2000.
Articles by Graham Thom
How Labor roped Timor into asylum seeker vote-grabbing
On Monday Chris Bowen, Australia’s Minister for Immigration, flew out to East Timor, Indonesia and Malaysia to push for the…... Read more
A journalist vanishes, along with our compassion
In light of last Friday’s announcement that the Australian Government has implemented a blanket suspension on the processing of new…... Read more
Australia really has a tiny number of asylum-seekers
On Tuesday, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees released the statistics on global asylum trends for 2009. Somewhat predictably,…... Read more
There’s no such thing as a “queue”
With detention facilities on Christmas Island getting closer and closer to capacity, and a Federal election looming, the issue of…... Read more
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From: Punch on: Open thread 09/02/2012
marley says:
I'm one of the older ones, so I've certainly seen a few changes in my time. When I started school I learned to write with a nib pen, dipped in an inkwell (no, I'm not kidding). My mother became a dab hand at getting inkstains out of my clothes. Flicking ink at one another in the classroom was an essential… [read more]From: I’d rather have a piece of toast than listen to crap lyrics
Erick says:
Led Zeppelin are responsible for my all-time favourite mixed metaphor: "There you sit, sit and stare, like a book on a shelf rusting." (Misty Mountain Hop) I laugh every time I hear it. Hmmm, I believe I've decided what to play on the way to work today. [read more]Gentle jabs to the ribs
No wuckin forries. These nuckin futs are tuckin fops
Well, puck me with a fitchfork. The F-word is apparently an acceptable part of Australian speech. That’s… Read more
