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April 27, 2006

peOple’S liFeS dUriNg woRld wAR II

Filed under: Uncategorized —— christeen @ 12:50 am

. What was it like to be an evacuee? An Evacuee (children in particicular) would feel confused, because he wouild now where they sending him/her. Depressed, at leaving all their belogings, family and friends. Annoyed at being forced to live their own, home countries for their safety. Scared, because they would know what was going to happen to them next. Hopeful, to get a home and a family who would take care of them and love them.

What was the diet of people like during the war? There was rationing and people had to make the best of what was available. The menu would mainly consist on milk, bread, bacon, cheese, apples, sausages.
. What was it like during the Blitz in 1940?
At 4:56pm on 7 September 1940, the sirens wailed as the German Air Force, the luftwaffe, launched a massive raid on London. Over 350 bombers flew across the Channel from airfields in France and dropped 300 tonnes of bombs on the docks and streets of the East End of London.

 

What was the Blitz?
Heavy and frequent bombing raids carried out over Britain in 1940 and 1941. This was called The Blitz. London was bombed ever day and night, bar one, for 11 weeks.

What does ‘Blitz’ mean?
Blitz is the German word for ‘lightning’.

   buidlings world war 2.gifThe bombs destroyed many buildings.

 

 

April 18, 2006

Filed under: Uncategorized —— christeen @ 11:45 am
  1. Where are the detention centres?
  2. How do they look?
  3. How do they treat people?

*This are the questions I need to answer in this piece of writing.*

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 It is shocking the way they treat innocent  people, like children, in detention centres all around Australia. It looks as if they are some kind of criminals. Lots of these immigrants are being forced out of their home country. Some of them , like children, don’t have any choice and are being moved from their family and country to, what they are hoping for, will be a better and saffer place to live. And what do we do? We lock them up, for what could be their whole lifes.

Earlier this week a three-year-old girl, who had spent her entire life behind bars, was released from a detention centre with her mother after a psychiatrist’s warning over her mental health. Lots of other people are experiencing this same problems. Some immigrants are born in this horrifying detention centres and will eventually die in them too.
  The immigration minister has referred 201 cases of possible wrongful detention to an internal inquiry.
The inquiry, headed by former federal police chief Mick Palmer, was initially set up to investigate the wrongful detention of Cornelia Rau, an Australian resident who ended up in an immigration centre.

The Palmer Inquiry was later expanded to look into the case of Vivien Alvarez-Solon, an Australia citizen who was deported to the Philippines in 2001.

A senate inquiry learned on Wednesday that Queensland police were notified about the wrongful deportation of Ms Alvarez-Solon in 2003, by mid-ranking immigration officials who apparently did nothing.

Australia’s ABC television has claimed Mr Palmer, after concluding his investigation will recommend that the government set up a wider inquiry with judicial powers to investigate the 201 other cases of possible wrongful detention.

The immigration minister didn’t confirm the claim, but said she would take Mr Palmer’s advice on how to move forward with the investigations.

The minister has in the past resisted calls for a public inquiry into the Rau and Alvarez-Solon cases.

Australia has a policy of mandatory detention of asylum-seekers and its practice of also detaining children has drawn international criticism, including from Amnesty International.

In the wake of the apology the government reversed an earlier decision and said a Vietnamese boy born in Australia to asylum-seeker parents would not be sent back to offshore detention on Christmas Island.
I believe that that immigrants who arrive to Australia should get a proper investigation on their background before they are put into detention centres.

 

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