@ Clownfish.
We might also ask why Immigration detention is being run as a "for profit" enterprise by a fairly malevolent globalist company,SERCO.
Detention is big business, it's also a "growth area".
When politicians, such as the Victorian premier talk about building "super prisons" they're not talking about state run facilities, they'll be privately owned and run for profit, most probably by British based SERCO.
Why isn't the focus of the "Refugee Advocates" on a "Send SERCO back where they came from" campaign?
As it stands the more "refugees" who arrive here the more money is transferred from the public purse into the pockets of SERCO stakeholders.
Where's the outcry? I've heard exactly Zip on this issue from "Refugee advocates" and in my book silence is consent, there's also the possibility of connivance between the two groups.
I'm 100% certain that some "refugee advocates" are in the pay of SERCO because that's the way the world works,"activist" groups are always infiltrated and corrupted by their supposed enemy, always.

I have got a better idea for a refugee TV program.

How about we get a boatload of Anglo Saxons who burn their identity papers and set out on a boat for Asia to claim "asylum" from Australian oppression? When they get intercepted by some Asian navy, they threaten to throw the kids overboard and then set fire to their boat?

After being landed on shore, and taken to a detention centre equipped with computers and being fed "Australian" food supplied by Anglo caterers, they attack each other, attack inmates of other nationalities and religions, attack the guards, set fire to the detention centre, and then sit on the roof daring the police to do anything about it.

After being granted "temporary protection visas" they immediately head for the nearest Asian Centrelink offices to load up on all of the free goodies. They are then provided with houses bought commercially by the government from the open market, or they get preference over Asians for public housing.

As more boats arrive, they congregate entirely within a suburb which soon becomes notorious for very high levels of drug trafficking, violent crime, drive by shootings, and long term welfare dependency. The spiritual head of the Church of England in that Asian country could help by implying that Asian women were "catmeat" sluts who deserve to get raped by Anglos.

The program could then concentrate on how racist and lacking in compassion the Asians are, because they object to any more Anglos barging into their countries.

Bronwyn, if Soviet troops were driving around Australian streets,
I'd suggest that a few Aussies would take a pot shots at them too.
Besides, how would it look for SBS, if one of their guests had been
shot? No doubt extreme caution was taken. Meantime around
20 million Iraqis do in fact live in Iraq and are rebuilding their
country. Given the statistics mentioned, I'd say that there
are other deserving asylum seekers such as Burmese women and
children, who should not be pushed out of the way by young Iraqi
males who could be helping to rebuild their country.

Bronwyn:"100 000 Iraqis have been killed in the American lead invasion and occupation of their country"

How many white people have been murdered,raped,assaulted,roadkilled,mentally damaged,never been born due to anti-white demographic-reduction policies since the anti-white PC religion took over?

30,000 white women a year are raped by non-whites in America alone.

Your "moral outrgae" does`nt extend to those expendable white people does it Bronwyn,Iraqis are much more deserving of your sympathies are`nt they?

Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white.

Lego,
i am unaware of this particular bjelke petersen policy. however nothing associated with that evil man would surprise me.
Your support of this particular action demonstrates your ignorance of what constitutes corrupt conduct and what is the proper role of government.
leaving that aside you have not addressed the substance of my response to your claims. there is an old rule that says when you are losing the argument attack the messenger.
I repeat. your claims about handgun crime and migrants is a beatup. the statistics from BOCSAR prove this. have the good grace to acknowledge this.

SPQR

Escape IS the primary motive of asylum-seekers and contrary to your claims very few have the luxury of shopping around. Most put their lives in the hands of people-smugglers with little idea of where they're headed. A frequent comment from the Iraqis who arrived here in the early 2000's was they'd never heard of Australia. As for the Tamils, they do live in our region and many had family here. If you were stranded on a boat with sick women and children for months on end with no country willing to assist you, I think you'd start making a few demands too.

One or two boat fires have been deliberately lit, but the majority occur as a result of clapped-out and poorly-maintained engines. The fear and helplessness generated by the fire itself, as with the water coming in, was what the show sought to highlight. The whole experience is terrifying, especially considering most are afraid of the ocean and unable to swim.

Regarding the Iraqis flying out of the country, very few do that. The interpreter did, as part of a one-off deal in recognition of the fact he'd risked his life interpreting for the Coalition forces and was subsequently in grave danger as a result. The other two most probably drove or walked to Syria or Jordan first and may have flown from there to Malaysia, but equally may not have. Arriving by plane in no way negates a person's refugee status, though I agree it tends to reduce our sympathy for their plight.

Regarding Villawood, it is a hell-hole. A few TV sets and laptops don't reduce the pain of being locked up like a criminal for months and years on end, with little or no news of your family's safety and the constant threat of being returned to danger.

Your last point is irrelevant and depends a lot on your definition of illegal. It's impossible to know the numbers of refugees in Malaysia, but estimates vary from one to two hundred thousand - a great many in other words and a fact the program depicted accurately.