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Date Posted: 12:42:54 03/23/02 Sat
Author: Buffy's vampire
Subject: Fascism is destroying the remarkable nature of Oz

I wake up to days where I believe I am in hell. Look at this and think:

Five Afghan children and their mother are expecting to be ordered back to their ruined homeland this week - even though their father has a refugee visa to stay in Australia.

In a decision which highlights the cruel contradiction of the processing system, the Refugee Review Tribunal has rejected a plea by Roqiah Bakhtiyari, her three daughters and two sons, to stay.

Now the family's only hope of remaining together is an appeal to Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock.

But the tribunal used a bizarre test to determine if Mrs Bakhtiyari was really from Afghanistan, asking her to identify the local currency.

When the illiterate 31-year-old, whose home village uses barter to exchange goods, could not answer correctly, the tribunal decided she and her children must be from Pakistan and not entitled to protection.

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