Two days ago, the docket judge asked the Minister's lawyers for my whereabouts. The Minister's solicitors did not respond yesterday. It was weird. No litigator wants to make a judge wait. Today, they kept silent. I was getting worried. Something was wrong. And then in the late afternoon, they broke the silence. They wrote that they were seeking instructions from the Department of Immigration and hoped to be able to respond to the queries on Monday. Hello? Doesn't the Department know where I am?! Of course, they know. Why can't they answer the judge's query immediately? Are they scheming something? Am I safe? Everything looks suspicious now...
There is a Japanese woman in Villawood. She is a few years older than me. We often have a chat. Today, she, too, told me that the Department looked suspicious. She is an interesting person.
She came to Australia on a student visa eight years ago. She had a partner here. Her partner beat her everyday and eventually locked her up home. I did not ask her exactly how long she was locked up by her partner. But I think it was about three or four months. Then, one day, she ran away. The police arrested her partner and charged him with domestic violence. She was chucked into Villawood because she lost her student visa because having been locked up by her partner.
The next thing happened was the funniest thing I have ever heard about the Australian legal system. Her partner who was the accused of domestic violence got out of jail on bail and is now walking freely outside. She who was not accused of any wrongdoing cannot get out of detention because there is no bail for immigration detention. Not only that, because the police subpoenaed her as the main witness for the prosecution against her partner, she even cannot go back to Japan! The police made sure that the victim is locked up while the offender is walking free!!
To make the things worse, every time the trial date arrives, her partner submits a medical certificate and the trial is adjourned. Because of the repeated adjournment, the Department told her a few days ago that they would not wait for the trial and would remove her in two weeks. She thought that she would be free soon. Today, she was informed by the ABF removal officer that the planned removal was postponed so that she would testify at the trial in December. She said that she could no longer trust the Department.
There is a Japanese woman in Villawood. She is a few years older than me. We often have a chat. Today, she, too, told me that the Department looked suspicious. She is an interesting person.
She came to Australia on a student visa eight years ago. She had a partner here. Her partner beat her everyday and eventually locked her up home. I did not ask her exactly how long she was locked up by her partner. But I think it was about three or four months. Then, one day, she ran away. The police arrested her partner and charged him with domestic violence. She was chucked into Villawood because she lost her student visa because having been locked up by her partner.
The next thing happened was the funniest thing I have ever heard about the Australian legal system. Her partner who was the accused of domestic violence got out of jail on bail and is now walking freely outside. She who was not accused of any wrongdoing cannot get out of detention because there is no bail for immigration detention. Not only that, because the police subpoenaed her as the main witness for the prosecution against her partner, she even cannot go back to Japan! The police made sure that the victim is locked up while the offender is walking free!!
To make the things worse, every time the trial date arrives, her partner submits a medical certificate and the trial is adjourned. Because of the repeated adjournment, the Department told her a few days ago that they would not wait for the trial and would remove her in two weeks. She thought that she would be free soon. Today, she was informed by the ABF removal officer that the planned removal was postponed so that she would testify at the trial in December. She said that she could no longer trust the Department.