{"id":416,"date":"2008-07-29T11:52:18","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T01:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/sdo\/index.php\/2008\/07\/29\/changes-to-australian-detention-system\/"},"modified":"2008-07-29T11:52:18","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T01:52:18","slug":"changes-to-australian-detention-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/2008\/07\/29\/changes-to-australian-detention-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes to Australian detention system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"word-spacing: 0px; font: 12px Verdana; text-transform: none; color: #000000; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; text-align: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; line-height: 150%; font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word\" class=\"first\"><img loading=\"lazy\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"left\" width=\"104\" src=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/reslib\/200706\/r151513_540216.jpg\" hspace=\"15\" height=\"152\" style=\"width: 104px; height: 152px\" \/>The majority of asylum seekers will no longer be detained under major immigration reforms described by Immigration Minister Chris Evans as a more compassionate approach.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; line-height: 150%; font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word\">The Government will not completely scrap mandatory detention but Senator Evans says the Department of Immigration will have to justify why a person should be detained.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; line-height: 150%; font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word\">&#8220;A person who poses no danger to the community will be able to remain in the community while their visa status is resolved,&#8221; Senator Evans said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; line-height: 150%; font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word\">Senator Evans says indefinite detention is not acceptable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; line-height: 150%; font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2008\/07\/29\/2317303.htm\">read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of asylum seekers will no longer be detained under major immigration reforms described by Immigration Minister Chris Evans as a more compassionate approach. The Government will not completely scrap mandatory detention but Senator Evans says the Department of Immigration will have to justify why a person should be detained. &#8220;A person who poses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,14,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}