Australias Refugee Shame.
March 7th 2007 12:55
I am posting part of a reply that i made to an earlier posting by opnionatedranter here to allow peole to explore the two links that i included on the reply.
The first deals with the shameful episode of the Sivex and the other is an interview with a refugee who arrived in Australia on a boat. Both highlight the Governments horrendous treatment of people who risk their lives to seek refuge from persecuation and better lives in the most part for their families. Please read:
The treatment of refugees who come to Australia risking everything on unseaworthy boats is a fairly recent event and one that does not sit comfortably with many Australians.
We have in the past accepted many people who have arrived in this fashion and i believe Australia is a much better place for having done it. While these is often a reluctance from those who have left behind their home country and cultures to assimilate into the country the successive generations following have done nothing but to enrich this country.
Look at some of Australia's leading doctors, business people and those who make up the general population and you will find personal and family stories of how they came to Australia in harrowing circumstance. They will tell you how these events conditioned them to wanting to do so much for the country that had given them a chance at a new start.
If you believe that turning away people on unseaworthy boats and leaving them to perish is some how a noble thing to do then i feel truly sorry for your lack of compassion toward your fellow human beings. Read the story of the SIVEX and how over 300 asylum seekers drowned while the Australian government did nothing to help them. This is not the Australian spirit of a fair-go.
Do you really believe some trials and tribulations with bureaucracy is anything compared to a journey on a unseaworthy over crowded boat.
If you think that once they arrive in Australia asylum seekers are suddenly given homes upon their arrival into Australia then you are sadly mistaken as well. Thankfully there have been some changes made but in recent years women and children have been locked up behind razor wire in the middle of central Australia for years while they are processed. The majority of these people are found to be genuine refugees who then emerge from these prisons with major mental and health problems.
Not only that but the Government has also deported people who have lived here since they were children back to their country of origin because of a criminal record. They have dumped people in a country where they have no ties, no family and no language skills.
The current Governments treatment of refugee and immigrants is appalling and is a shameful page of Australia’s recent history. It sits there next to our appalling treatment of Indigenous Australia.
I am a proud Australian but I am not proud of this government at all!!!
Finally I would like you to use the following link to listen to the podcast of an interview with a former refugee Mortezza Porvadi and his story of his treatment by the Australian Government. If his story does not move you then i suggest you head to cardiologist to confirm wether you have a heart or not. Refugee Mortezza Poorvadi Link
The first deals with the shameful episode of the Sivex and the other is an interview with a refugee who arrived in Australia on a boat. Both highlight the Governments horrendous treatment of people who risk their lives to seek refuge from persecuation and better lives in the most part for their families. Please read:
The treatment of refugees who come to Australia risking everything on unseaworthy boats is a fairly recent event and one that does not sit comfortably with many Australians.
We have in the past accepted many people who have arrived in this fashion and i believe Australia is a much better place for having done it. While these is often a reluctance from those who have left behind their home country and cultures to assimilate into the country the successive generations following have done nothing but to enrich this country.
Look at some of Australia's leading doctors, business people and those who make up the general population and you will find personal and family stories of how they came to Australia in harrowing circumstance. They will tell you how these events conditioned them to wanting to do so much for the country that had given them a chance at a new start.
If you believe that turning away people on unseaworthy boats and leaving them to perish is some how a noble thing to do then i feel truly sorry for your lack of compassion toward your fellow human beings. Read the story of the SIVEX and how over 300 asylum seekers drowned while the Australian government did nothing to help them. This is not the Australian spirit of a fair-go.
Do you really believe some trials and tribulations with bureaucracy is anything compared to a journey on a unseaworthy over crowded boat.
If you think that once they arrive in Australia asylum seekers are suddenly given homes upon their arrival into Australia then you are sadly mistaken as well. Thankfully there have been some changes made but in recent years women and children have been locked up behind razor wire in the middle of central Australia for years while they are processed. The majority of these people are found to be genuine refugees who then emerge from these prisons with major mental and health problems.
Not only that but the Government has also deported people who have lived here since they were children back to their country of origin because of a criminal record. They have dumped people in a country where they have no ties, no family and no language skills.
The current Governments treatment of refugee and immigrants is appalling and is a shameful page of Australia’s recent history. It sits there next to our appalling treatment of Indigenous Australia.
I am a proud Australian but I am not proud of this government at all!!!
Finally I would like you to use the following link to listen to the podcast of an interview with a former refugee Mortezza Porvadi and his story of his treatment by the Australian Government. If his story does not move you then i suggest you head to cardiologist to confirm wether you have a heart or not. Refugee Mortezza Poorvadi Link
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Comment by Damo
For the Sake of Argument
My Apologetics
Howard, Reid and Ruddock have enforced a regressive policy to refugess with a calvinist vigour. Innocent people are sacrificed for the sake of their pathetic careers.
The irony is that Ruddock still wears his Amnesty International badge on his lapel. Amnesty will not demand he removes it because it adds to his own shame.
On top of that we have the situation of Australians being deported and put in detention.
I saw a display of drawing by children in detention camps and if those picture failedto move anyone then they are without the slightest humanity.
I am tempted to comment on the sort of person who post their own prejudices about a country they have never been to, never understood and cannot even imagine, but I will refrain.
Needless to say that Ultra Right wing pundits are like poison to any good community, even a blogging community.