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Nauru solution a dodgy deal : Comments
By Susan Metcalfe, published 19/7/2010Any notion of returning to our past treatment of refugees in Nauru must be taken off the table by both major parties in Australia.
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Now would I do what these people have done? On another thread someone was advocating ASIO execute people. I suspect the people to be killed were people like me. Now if there was a coup and violent people got control, would I remove my family to safety as fast as I could if my associates and their families were disapearing? Yes. It would mean abandoning our home, selling our possessions for a fraction of it's value and relying on our extended family to discreetly come up with money to pay people to help us leave, but the alternative would be worse.
Would I stop in the first country we arrived at? Yes, if it was safe, say New Zealand. A asian refugee camp I would not think safe from violence though and would likely spell death for my son who is fully dependent on medication to keep him alive. He would last about 48 hours without it I suspect. I would keep going until I had my family to safety. Hopefully I would be able to smuggle my family's documents out. But if there was militia on every street stopping people (more to rob them probably than arrest them) and my name was on a watch list, well I'd probably ditch my documents as a safety thing.
I'd recommend to that you and the turn around the boats brigade try imagine walking in the asylum seekers shoes. It's an uncomfortable place. Try for some empathy - make for a happier world.