We may have once been one nation and one family, Jane Simpson, but with the large scale importation of unassimilatable people from every race, religion, and culture on earth, we are rapidly becoming Balkanised. Just how dumb an idea it is to fracture your nations social cohesion with "non discriminatory" immigration can be viewed on the TV in real time with these BLM protests. Australia is not as bad yet as in the US and UK, but if we keep allowing non white immigration, our day will come.

When I was in high school, Jane, there were 3.5 billion people on earth. Now there are7.5 billion and the number keeps rising exponentially. All of this rise comes from third world sheetholes because advanced nation would have a negative population growth if it was not for immigration.

The only hope that the ever growing people who live in these sheetholes have is the hope that they can barge into a white western society and pig out on our welfare. The smart Asians will not accept them at all. I know that you have a job in the government, Jane, as some sort of social worker, so you have a vested interest in having as many dysfunctional and crime prone minorities barge into Australia so that your department can look after them.

But if you bothered to see past your self interest, you should be able to figure out that Australia's social security system is in trouble and it is unsustainable. The last thing we want is more trouble and crime prone people who from the very start, break our immigration laws. Either we have a social security system or we have open borders.

So no, Jane, we don't want people barging into our country. Because as that total dimwit Kevin Rudd displayed to everybody, if you take a so called "humanitarian approach, all you do is open the floodgates. Saying "shame, shame, shame", is no substitute for reason, or protecting our own.

Many "refugees" come from countries where they wanted the white man out. Now they want to live with us.

We are not "one family and one nation"; we have never been more divided, thanks to Leftist identity politics. And the "part of this family (that) is locked up in jail, in detention", is locked up because they are NOT part of any mythical "family" in Australia, and hopefully never will be. That's why they are locked up: because they are here uninvited, or overstayed their visas. They are not wanted. Even our immigrant-crazy Prime Minister still believes that we decide who comes here.

This Mostafa Azimitabar character needs to be bounced out of his taxpayer-funded accommodation quick smart and be sent back to whence he came. And what a nice person Jane Salmon is to refer to Serco employees as "gorillas". But, isn't that anti-social extremists all over? They want to dictate other people's beliefs and behaviour. They can do and say as they please. With friends like them, so-called refugees don't need any enemies.

The "an unpopular mode of arrival" is a crime. It is illegal to enter any country without documentation, or stay in any country with an expired visa. You will be detained, and deported as soon as possible. There is nothing "innocent" about illegals.

All the 'shame' Salmon talks about belongs to her and her rabble rousing kind.

I despair over this "stupid".

What more needs saying than what has been stated by the above posters. I couldn't add to that!

Dan

Well spoken, Jane, and thank you for the advocacy shown by yourself and other caring individuals, some of whom have been fighting this thankless fight for well over two decades now.
The comments above are a clear indication of the ignorance and racism so prevalent and deeply entrenched in Australian society.
The so-called 'sheetholes' refugees flee from have largely been created by Western invasion and exploitation. We are complicit and have an obligation to assist the refugees we've helped create.
Refugees are not 'crime-prone'. 'Asylum seekers living in the community on bridging visas are about 45 times less likely to be charged with a crime than members of the general public.' (SMH)
The so-called 'floodgates' were never opened. The spike in arrivals occurred as a result of Abbot shouting his intention to 'stop the boats' and causing refugees who'd already spent years in limbo in Indonesia to end their patient waiting and try to beat the imminent cutoff. The total number of boat arrivals to Australia from 1976 to 2013 was around 70,000 which equated to an average of less than 1,900 per year. They were manageable and relatively small numbers, especially considering that for many years now Australia has averaged an annual net intake of permanent migrants of at least 150,000.
Asylum seekers are not 'illegals'. All people have the right to seek asylum. Australia's boat turnbacks contravene international law and indefinitely detaining and offshoring asylum seekers to send a message of deterrence to others is an appalling breach of human rights.
I join Jane in crying 'shame' at our apathy and cruelty towards refugees. And I despair of Australia ever adopting a more enlightened policy approach.

I disagree! These folk had to get visas and airline tickets to travel to transitional nations. And where for all particle purposes they were safe from whatever they were allegedly escaping from. Then may have paid a much as a year's salary for a one-way boat trip?

Their choices remain, a transfer to the U.S.A. a return to Narua, or repatriation. One notes, many of our so-called refugees, having settled here, regularly return to their respective homelands, for family reunions and catch-ups.

This comes over as bleeding heart humbug and not very good humbug at that.

If they could fly to transitional countries, then given would they still had to find, they could have flown here on a tourist's visa?

Then sort asylum?

As opposed to the convoluted route they took and came in sperate groups, men, then women and children as a choice!?

I can still see those women and children drowning in the water/smashed against the rocks and our defence personal almost powerless to assist!

Never again!
Alan B.

Grammarly auto-corrected practical to particle and used up one of my posts, to correct the record. particle purposes, really? This AI is so useful?
Alan B.

Anyone residing in Australia, even as waiting refugee applicants, should be treated fairly and with basic living conditions, including access to sunshine and reasonable movement.

Just imagine how such people would be treated if right wing political hard-liners were not exposed by people such as Jane.

Sorry, most Australians are decent people on both sides of politics and in-between.

Australia must always promote its image by treating all people on our shores decently.

We are not animals, albeit some are more so when they offer their hardline and heartless stances.

Being decent does not mean that Australia cannot have a tough stance towards limiting the number of refugees. That is anothe matter.

It just means all people should be treated decently while they are here in Australian territory

How can we do this to our fellow humans?
Jane Salmon,
Indeed, I watched an SBS Doco the other night on a Prison in Madagascar. Can you please ask the UN why they allow this to happen ? Can you please ask the UN why they don't put a stop to the mass production of refugees ? Please ask these refugees why they don't want to adapt to our way of life & try to force their problem causing culture onto us ? Why is it that once here, the refugees don't work on bettering the situation in their homelands & only go back for holidays when they are in fear of their lives or so they say !
Do that & let us know why this is so Jane Salmon if you don't want to become a Brown Trout !

Individual,

So you really think that the young of refugees dont try and fit in.

It is an interesting proposition.

My gut feeling is that many do try and fit in. Not as we would expect, as seen in sport, but more so in terms of getting good jobs and contributing that way.

I wish someone could quantify my generalisation, one way or another.

I think most of their young would embrace the individuality of our society in terms of having more choice and doing something about it, albeit that they may also face cultural indocrination from their parents to a greater degree than say Europeans.

So you really think that the young of refugees dont try and fit in.
Chris Lewis,
I didn't even think of the young but since you brought up the subject, aren't they mostly restrained by their respective "Culture" which they're subjected to in their enclaves ?
Trying to fit in is a misnomer because they don't try that, they're trying to force their hosts to adapt to the refugee-imported Culture.
is it any wonder nothing works ?
Our compassion is taken for granted & exploited & even demanded rather than appreciated.
Yes, there are some genuine refugees who are in dire need of help but those invaders who are literally sent to overrun & out-breed us make the original Colonisation of Australia look like a temporary picnic. Perhaps we could get Prof. Langton to give us her view on which of the invaders of her country she would like to give preference to ?

Does she believe the followers of Islam will continue the Welfare system the Europeans started & still provide ? What welfare systems to the islamic countries whose refugees we are forced to absorb, have & why do their refugees not ask for asylum along the way to Australia ? The Europeans have learnt from their failed ideas & have now been rectifying for 70 years. What's the score on that from the islamic countries ?
One good person does not make up for a thousand not so good ones !

Demonstrations never work and at this time of COVID-19 are a sure cause for further infections. It may help lift the image of the noisy protestors, but does nothing to help the victims.

What is needed instead, is a carefully-planned ingenious and precise operation to release these poor fellows from the clutches of those Serco gorillas, then to whisk them to safe hiding-places.

I am afraid that the author is only interested in her own glorification and political gain, unlike these unsung heroes who release and house the prisoners, who truly care but will never be able to tell anyone about it.

Hmh, Refugee week not sexy enough anymore ?

To care about someone in need is simply common decency. To aid someone pretending to be in need is simply misplaced vogue compassion. Insidious schemes are constantly invented to exploit vogue compassion !

this is how yet another refugee thanks the country (England) for their refuge from Libiria

'Khairi Saadallah, 25, accused of stabbing three people to death in Reading, is believed to be a Libyan refugee who was released from prison just two weeks ago and was previously known to MI5. Last October, Saadallah was sentenced to 28 months for breaching a suspended jail term, racially aggravated assault, criminal damage and affray. He was released from HMP Bullingdon, Oxfordshire,'

his brothers response was to call England racist.

runner,
Let me guess, he was released by highly educated Lawyers & Judges, not by less educated common sense people ?

'runner,
Let me guess, he was released by highly educated Lawyers & Judges, not by less educated common sense people ?'

Individual

any country with any sense would of given some sort of character test before allowing these terrorist in. Our record with the Sudanese in Victoria is atrocious. Those who warned against dangers are called racist by regressive bigots.