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Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry

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Year 2009 
Volume 8 
Issue 2

Uninvited and unheard: Australia’s case of post-Tampa boat arrivals

Jack Smits
Project SafeCom Inc.

2009 8 (2) Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry

Abstract

In an environment where the national government creates deliberate policies to create a blockade and a silence around the stories of uninvited refugees coming to its shores, human rights advocates have a tough time creating conditions to make the stories heard by the policy makers and the general public alike. However, the Australian experience shows that ‘breaking through the sound barrier of silence’ is possible, using creative collaborations with reporters, the tactics of subversion, smart strategies aimed at those setting reporting standards, and through an engagement with the wider audience of human rights advocates around the nation. In this article, five government-created barriers are identified and ingeniously countered.

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Smits, Jack (2009). Uninvited and unheard: Australia’s case of post-Tampa boat arrivals. (2009). Uninvited and unheard: Australia’s case of post-Tampa boat arrivals. Tamara: Journal For Critical Organization Inquiry, 8(2), 207-224. (Original work published 2009)

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Smits, Jack. “Uninvited And Unheard: Australia’S Case Of Post-Tampa Boat Arrivals”. 2009. Tamara: Journal For Critical Organization Inquiry, vol. 8, no. 2, 2009, pp. 207-224.

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Smits, Jack. “Uninvited And Unheard: Australia’S Case Of Post-Tampa Boat Arrivals”. Tamara: Journal For Critical Organization Inquiry, Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry, 8, no. 2 (2009): 207-224.