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Seeking Australian asylum: a well founded fear : Comments
By David Corlett, published 20/11/2008Instead of receiving protection and safety, they were detained within Australia’s Pacific Solution before being returned to Afghanistan; a country racked by violence.
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There was absolutely no evidence that any of the people returned to Afghanistan were in any more danger than the rest of the Afghans who have stayed in their own country through thick and thin. Everything was hearsay, and the programme looked like a set up to keep a few peculiar Australians in work and travel. Not to mention the saps who watch SBS regularly. The woman who refused to accept a taxi fare from her ‘dear brother’ (Glendenning) was a real weepy, proving to SBS aficionados what a stoic, brave and worthy people the Afghans are; and rotten Australians won’t help them - apart from sending our soldiers there to be killed, of course, when the pit which is Afghanistan has nothing to do with Australia.
While the author claims that the programme, “… provides a harrowing insight into the consequences of Australia’s response to people seeking protection during the Howard years”, all but the SBS-brainwashed and self-haters would have seen it as a piece of disgusting indulgence on the part of a few sad sacks intent on venting their spleens and hatred of their own country: a country which allows them to serve up such rubbish, and whose taxpayers are forced to provide the means to do it.
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