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Asylum seekers are victims of selfishness : Comments

By Bruce Haigh, published 6/5/2016

Australia is a sick country, primarily because it has become such a selfish and self-centred country. A sense of entitlement pervades, indeed is encouraged and fostered within the ruling class and politicians.

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" Surely the right wing ideologues must be swayed by this"
Bruce not only were the right not swayed by this, most of the left have been hardened in their stance by these actions as well.

A Man who has put his wife and family in the position he had then decide that the next step is to set himself alight, is not the type of person we want here.Surely at some point even a bleeding heart such as yourself can see this mans actions were his own.

Bruce I would love to hear your explanation about why the people on Manus island deserve to come to Australia more then the people that are waiting in camps in many parts of the world?
Posted by Cobber the hound, Friday, 6 May 2016 8:27:04 AM
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I read as far as the false claims about UNHCR. UNHCR did not even speak to Omid when they were in Nauru. Shameful that false claims published as fact.
Posted by Munda, Friday, 6 May 2016 8:56:46 AM
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There are many traps in life, but one of the pitfalls of too much time on ones hands, is to overthink a situation!
Posted by diver dan, Friday, 6 May 2016 9:07:14 AM
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You are correct in that Australia has a history of accepting people fleeing from poverty and war. However, there are several distinctions.
One is that the majority of these people came from Christian backgrounds and were presumed to be prepared to assimilate into general society without problems. Which they did.
The other difference is that they were given nothing beyond the bare essentials of living for a short period. No assisted housing, no welfare, nothing. They were expected to be self supporting, and they were.
Our ancestors suffered huge sacrifices and deprivations to forge this wonderful country for their descendants.
Perhaps if the current crop of people coming here were to meet those expectations we would be more prepared to accept more of them
Posted by Big Nana, Friday, 6 May 2016 9:51:48 AM
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Big Nana,
There were literal squatter camps of migrants in the Rverina in the 1950's, people lived in humpies or sheds wherever the work was and they were at the whim of the department of manpower, the husband might have been sent to work in northern NSW and the wife to Melbourne.
Posted by Jay Of Melbourne, Friday, 6 May 2016 10:16:19 AM
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I find your risible rant offensive in the extreme Bruce! These folks who routinely destroy their documentation seem to be able to invest the equivalent of a year's salary to pay a criminal organization to smuggle them in rotting hulks from places where they have found comparative refuge!

And seek to impose themselves on Australia and immigration law haters like you Bruce try to help them!

We are a welcoming society and include folks from every nation on earth in our number. Moreover we're assured we have one of the most generous refugee resettlement programs on the planet! And it's never ever going to become one effectively controlled by a Godless criminal people smuggling, people trafficking operation.

And while it is sad, and as things stand, these folk are never ever going to be allowed to settle in Australia!

And the only means at our disposal to stop the people smuggling operation and the consequent drowning at sea.

Even so, I know of other folk who accepted repatriation in the knowledge and belief they could apply, after not less than two years, through legal channels, to migrate here and given good character, worthwhile skills, and official identifying documentation they succeeded.

Think Bruce, always providing you can tolerate the burning smell emanating from previously unused cerebral circuits? Every successful uninvited illegally smuggled arrival prevents another genuine and properly documented refugee from resettling here!

You may think that is fair on folks who have waited far longer in demonstrably far more deplorable conditions for their legitimate turn! Whereas I most certainly don't!
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Friday, 6 May 2016 10:34:58 AM
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