Australia
What is 500 days?
Authorized the forced removal of children and indigenous people as well as a prison-like infrastructure of confinement and impoverishment on various offshore island reserves
What is Aboriginal Protection Acts?
This mining corporation operates Australia's Christmas Island detention center
What is CI Resources?
This act outlawed imported indentured labor amid a chorus of white opposition to Pacific Islander and Chinese labor
What is Pacific Island Labourers Act?
The way in which Boochani wrote No Friend but the Maintains while being detained on Manus Island
What is a smuggled cellphone?
This legal category was created by Australia to exclude some places like Christmas Island from the migration zone
What are interstitial legal categories?
This land registration system sanctioned colonizers' claims of ownership to the entire continent
What is Torrens System?
This squad was responsible for the burning down of more than 100 homes on the Ipili people's customary lands in the mining lease area of the Porgera Gold Mine
This act introduced a poll tax and restrictions on Chinese arrivals in Australia
What is The Victorian Act?
Interstitial legal categories exclude places from the migration zone to deny the rights of refugees when entering this continent to eventually detain them in offshore camps instead
What is Australia?
Australia paid "financial aid" to this country to host offshore detention centers to turn refugee control into a form of neo-colonial outsourcing to avoid legal responsibility while using violence
What is Nauru?
The doctrine introduced, in the late 1700's, to enforce the British administration's violent commercial and territorial expansion project to seize Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander lands
What is Doctrine of Terra Nullius?
This squad was linked to the repression and rapes of Indigenous Papua New Guineans opposing mining, fracking, and logging on within their lands
What is Papua New Guinea (PNG) paramilitary police squad?
This act limited non-European migration through the use of language testing
What is the Immigration Restriction Act?
The slogan that the Pacific Climate Warriors used in 2014 when blocking Australia's biggest coal port
What is "We are not drowning, we are fighting?"