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Asylum seekers, Waleed Aly and the folly of good intentions : Comments
By John Slater, published 12/2/2016The grand folly of this approach is that while it’s easy to paint offshore processing as callous and cold-hearted, we can’t pretend that this issue exists in a vacuum.
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I'm certainly not suggesting continually carrying 93% on welfare. We should aim to get them into the workforce quickly. But I notice that figure is a few years old, and I would expect more of them to be in work by now. And I've previously heard that most of those who aren't in work are in education, so will presumably become taxpayers in the future.
If refugees can't already speak english then generally they should be resettled in a country other than Australia. An exception is the small proportion of refugees who are persecuted in Indonesia.
Do you have a reference for that Senate Committee figure?
The fact remains that most refugees have no opportunity to get into "the queue".