Advocacy Lead at Asylum Seekers Centre Sydney | Human rights & civil liberties enthusiast | Brit in Australia | Views here are my ownhttps://bsky.app/profile/markjohnson.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/markjohnson.bsky.social/post/3mtxkmuyizs2aIt's worth saying that Australians on youth visas in the UK have never been forced to do any specific work & have no work limitations as Brits do here. The Australian gvt continue to see the WHV as a way to guarantee cheap labour rather than remove barriers to travel and strengthen cultural ties. [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Aug 2026 05:03 +0000at://did:plc:noukrtup3w2bpoxfpypdwtey/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtxkmuyizs2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/markjohnson.bsky.social/post/3mtunf3qeds2x"ICE tactics, already sadistic, are looking increasingly like torture." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/24/ice-detainees-torture25 Aug 2026 01:15 +0000at://did:plc:noukrtup3w2bpoxfpypdwtey/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtunf3qeds2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/markjohnson.bsky.social/post/3msrudtnvfc2l"In the pursuit of ever stricter migration policies, the human rights protections that Europe was founded to uphold are increasingly treated as disposable." - Michael O’Flaherty, the commissioner for human rights of the Council of Europe https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/20/europe-risk-human-rights-black-hole-return-hubs-migrants?mc_cid=0675ec94d1&mc_eid=ed8d11e48d11 Aug 2026 05:16 +0000at://did:plc:noukrtup3w2bpoxfpypdwtey/app.bsky.feed.post/3msrudtnvfc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/markjohnson.bsky.social/post/3msffhmoa7k26"Rather than create an underclass of visa holders and non-residents, our approach to the housing crisis should be grounded in humanity and based on need, not visa status." - Written by the @ascsyd.bsky.social's own Elijah Buol this Homelessness Week https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/08/need-not-visa-status-should-determine-how-we-treat-the-homeless/06 Aug 2026 06:18 +0000at://did:plc:noukrtup3w2bpoxfpypdwtey/app.bsky.feed.post/3msffhmoa7k26https://bsky.app/profile/markjohnson.bsky.social/post/3mry76easqk2aSaudi Arabia are mass-executing migrants at a rapidly increasing rate. They will host the 2034 FIFA World Cup. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c80nkgdnl4no01 Aug 2026 00:21 +0000at://did:plc:noukrtup3w2bpoxfpypdwtey/app.bsky.feed.post/3mry76easqk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/markjohnson.bsky.social/post/3mr274owagk2yBeware Australians - London is awash with this technology now, with all of the human rights ramifications including misidentifications, bias and an end to privacy on the high street. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/20/western-australia-police-real-time-facial-recognition-trial-privacy-ntwnfb20 Jul 2026 02:00 +0000at://did:plc:noukrtup3w2bpoxfpypdwtey/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr274owagk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/markjohnson.bsky.social/post/3mpifbx52us2y"The Albanese Labor government accepted just 128 of the 332 recommendations it received (38 percent). This is a lower acceptance rate than at the 2021 UPR, when the former Coalition government accepted 51 percent of the recommendations." https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/06/29/australia-un-human-rights-recommendations-ignored?mc_cid=f868b00070&mc_eid=ed8d11e48d30 Jun 2026 06:37 +0000at://did:plc:noukrtup3w2bpoxfpypdwtey/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpifbx52us2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/markjohnson.bsky.social/post/3mp5jfnnvq226As a Scottish person with an English accent I thought I might give my two pence worth on this one - judge politicians on their words and their actions, not on how they speak. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cj4g1ewx1l2o25 Jun 2026 22:52 +0000at://did:plc:noukrtup3w2bpoxfpypdwtey/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp5jfnnvq226https://bsky.app/profile/markjohnson.bsky.social/post/3mmb6fstmf22w"What makes this proposal significant is not only who it excludes, but how it reshapes[...]the social contract. It suggests that contribution before citizenship matters less than formal status. That paying into a system does not necessarily guarantee access to it" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/14/angus-taylor-ndis-plan-citizens-only-bar-migrants-ntwnfb?CMP=share_btn_url20 May 2026 05:30 +0000at://did:plc:noukrtup3w2bpoxfpypdwtey/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmb6fstmf22w