We sit and listen to the "big" news item, which shouldn’t be a news item at all. Is there going to be an election? It is quite possibly the biggest beat up of a news item in the history of Australian politics. The boat people. I don't really get it? The boat people, which amount to so few people arriving in Australia each year, shouldn’t even rate as a news. It is pathetic, no really. It is completely political and it borders on racist... strums every racist cord we have and every single Australian should be completely ashamed about it.
What does it amount to? A few thousand people… who are in the most desperate of circumstances.
Ninety people die as a direct consequence of our policies of resistance.
And both sides of the political divide looked suitably horrified and both Big Ears and Big Arse claimed to want to find a solution and to stop playing politics with the issue. Finally! Then Big Ears states his answer is Nauru and Big Arse says that her answer is Malaysia and our collective mouths drop open, or should have if they didn’t, because nothing has changed and the two, and I use the term loosely, leaders continue to play politics with the issue like absolutely nothing has changed.
Big Ears reiterated Nauru despite the fact that every one who was sent to Nauru has been granted refugee status.
Big Arse reiterated Malaysia despite the High Court of Australia ruling it illegal... and despite the fact that previous to Big Ears and the Howard govt realising that it was one of the best vote raising tools, causing the labour party to cave in and lose it’s nerve and to abandon it’s long held ideals, on shore processing was Labour Policy.
The politicians of Australia don’t care about people dying, they only care to be seen to care, but really they only care about their own power, don’t be under any misapprehensions.
We need to legislate for on shore processing of refugees. There is no other humanitarian option.
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