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Covid in Sydney: Communities feel under siege as troops deployed
BBC, 8 August
Dai Le, a local councillor in Sydney, is speaking angrily about the deployment of 300 military personnel to the city’s streets this week.
“If the objective was to frighten the hell out of the community, I can guarantee you they have done that.”
Her constituency, Fairfield, is one of eight areas in Sydney considered the epicentre of Australia’s biggest Covid outbreak in a year.
These poorer and ethnically diverse suburbs in Sydney’s west and south west are home to about two million residents. Many are considered essential workers in food, health and other industries... more
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Afghan refugee may lose permanent residency in Australia – for supplying identity document
The Guardian, 8 August
A permanent resident of Australia – an Afghan refugee who has lived in Brisbane for a decade – has been threatened with having his visa cancelled and possible deportation, over an identity document the Australian government asked him to produce.
‘Nemat’ had been asked to provide a taskira – Afghanistan’s primary identity document – with his citizenship application. But he was then told his visa would be cancelled because the document, provided by the Afghan embassy in Canberra, could not be verified and might be counterfeit... more
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