A documentary to be screened at Odeon 5 Cinema at 6.30pm on Wednesday will follow human rights barrister Julian Burnside as he crosses the globe examining the treatment of refugees by Western democracies.
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Border Politics will look at the threat to human rights, the loss of democratic values and the increasingly heartless treatment of “the other”.
Mr Burnside is concerned with the treatment of people who attempt to arrive in Australia uninvited and the use of the “illegal” tag.
“We have a system where we are deliberately mistreating people, I think it’s a terrible indictment of our politicians,” he said.
Following metropolitan success Mr Burnside welcomed the decision to screen Border Politics in Orange.
“I think it’s terrific I think country Australians have been much much better than the rest of us, country people seem to understand how to deal with other people,” Mr Burnside said.
Tanya Marschke
I am based at Orange and cover a wide range of subjects as well as the weekly business column. I've worked consistently in the the media industry since 2006 including the past seven years at the Central Western Daily. Before moving to Orange, I worked as a journalist at weekly newspapers the Beaudesert Times and the Gold Coast Sun in Queensland, as well as the Scone Advocate in the Hunter Valley. I started my career at the Ridge News in Lightning Ridge while I completed my journalism studies remotely at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst.
I am based at Orange and cover a wide range of subjects as well as the weekly business column. I've worked consistently in the the media industry since 2006 including the past seven years at the Central Western Daily. Before moving to Orange, I worked as a journalist at weekly newspapers the Beaudesert Times and the Gold Coast Sun in Queensland, as well as the Scone Advocate in the Hunter Valley. I started my career at the Ridge News in Lightning Ridge while I completed my journalism studies remotely at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst.
