Melissa Parke: Labor cannot support the deliberate cruelty of current asylum seeker policy
Melissa Parke
Labor’s national platform supports offshore processing of asylum seekers but not at any cost. We must reconsider our support for government policy
December 2014
Aboriginal people are entitled to be treated as human beings, not just as a fiscal problem
Melissa Parke
The planned closure of 150 remote Indigenous communities will have devastating consequences. The reason behind it is hypocritical in the extreme
October 2014
Why support the TPP when it will let foreign corporations take our democracies to court?
Melissa Parke
No one should be fooled into believing security is as simple as greater surveillance and deeper silence
Melissa Parke
July 2014
In Morrison's world, good government can be sacrificed to 'stop the boats'
Melissa Parke
Melissa Parke: The immigration minister appears to revel in his self-styled role as Australia's border protector, but his secrecy risks the public's faith in government
June 2014
My motion on offshore processing was defeated. Where to now for Labor?
Melissa Parke
Melissa Parke: The Labor Caucus is genuinely concerned about drownings at sea, but if humane conditions cannot be implemented in offshore facilities, our party should not support them
