{"id":5079,"date":"2020-02-11T07:30:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T07:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=5079"},"modified":"2020-02-11T07:30:03","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T07:30:03","slug":"high-court-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/02\/11\/high-court-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"High Court ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Greens welcome the High Court\u2019s decision regarding the government\u2019s ability to deport First Nations peoples.<br \/>\n\u201cTrying to deport First Nations peoples whose country we stole is a fundamentally racist thing to do,\u201d Greens Immigration and Citizenship spokesperson Senator Nick McKim said.<br \/>\n\u201cAll First Nations peoples who are in\u00a0Immigration detention should now be immediately released.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cIt is also time to rein in the authority of both the Immigration Minister and the Minister for Home Affairs so we don&#8217;t see these kinds of gross abuses of power.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThis is a significant development for the rights of First Nations peoples.&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>Australian Greens spokesperson on First Nations issues Senator Rachel Siewert said:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cIt is deeply insulting and disrespectful that Mr Dutton thinks he can deport the Traditional Owners of this land.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u201cThis type of Government policy directly contradicts Closing the Gap objectives.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u201cWith the PM set to address the Parliament tomorrow on the Closing the Gap report I would suggest that that he use the opportunity to apologise for this racist approach.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greens welcome the High Court\u2019s decision regarding the government\u2019s ability to deport First Nations peoples. \u201cTrying to deport First Nations peoples whose country we stole is a fundamentally racist thing to do,\u201d Greens Immigration and Citizenship spokesperson Senator Nick McKim said. \u201cAll First Nations peoples who are in\u00a0Immigration detention should now be immediately released.\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/02\/11\/high-court-ruling\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;High Court ruling&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}