Hi friend Poirot,

Whatever, the doctor seemed to assume that the patients she was dealing with had been properly processed and, as far as she was concerned, they were bone fide refugees.

And wanted orthodontal work, and botox, and boob jobs, which struck her as somewhat out of character for genuine refugees.

Yes, she was perhaps acting on common stereotypes, that refugees are people who are in fear of their lives and those of their loved ones. And perhaps not so much for their teeth or wrinkles or boobs.

And perhaps fair enough. But can you really imagine any of those 400,000 genuine refugees in that ghastly camp in northern Kenya worrying about their teeth, first off ? or their fecking wrinkles ? or their much-spoken-of boobs ?

Refugees fleeing Nazi death-camps in Europe may have had other things on their minds besides their orthodontics. Get real, my friend.

Cheers :)

Joe

Oh come on Joe, do you honestly think many of the asylum seekers asked for cosmetic surgery?
I think we can safely assume that NO previous asylum seeker or refugee has ever been given FREE cosmetic surgery in Australia?

So why would many of them ask for it now?
Asking doesn't cost anything.

I still can't see how asylum seekers would risk their lives, or their families lives, by travelling to Australia on such deadly boats unless they were in desperate situations.

Whether or not the asylum seekers were so called 'economic refugees' or not, the fact remains that the immigration officials deemed the vast majority of them as genuine refugees.

Not to worry though guys.
Abbott will soon decimate the terrible people smuggler trade ( and the Indonesian fishing trade) by buying thousands of their fishing vessels , and all our troubles will be over...

Paul,

Making things up is the purview of the greens. I posted the link which gave the name of the health director a Dr Ling Yoong. Please read further than the first post before saying things that make you look like an idiot.

Parrot, SOL etc,

I have not claimed that everyone is jumping on a boat for a free cosmetic holiday, just that Labor's record of granting permanent residence to about 99% of illegal immigrants with welfare, housing, education, and free pass for relatives, is extremely attractive, and tens of thousands of cashed up economic refugees were flocking here.

It has been left to the coalition to fix up the myriad of Labor messes including this one. This starts with doing exactly what was promised.

Suseonline, "I still can't see how asylum seekers would risk their lives, or their families lives, by travelling to Australia on such deadly boats unless they were in desperate situations"

This from an experienced ex-Minister for Immigration, who happens to be a woman as well, so she should be a credible source for you or anyone,

<Media-Savvy Asylum Seekers Play Hardball
October 7, 2013
Having a sad story does not entitle entry to Australia.
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The people who travel through or past two, three or four other countries in order to get to the country of their preference are certainly not those most in need.

From the initial media coverage, one could be forgiven for thinking Australia was somehow to blame.

If anyone doubts that these people know full well what they are doing, all they need do is watch the TV clip of the man who claimed they had rung the Australian embassy but help had not arrived. To travel with mobiles on international roam, with the numbers in hand either of the Australian embassy or onshore colleagues ready and willing to contact it, is not the modus operandi of uninformed people who are duped by people smugglers. No, this is the work of people who are playing hardball with the Australian government and using the media to do so.

Their modus operandi is to get as many sad stories associated with asylum seekers into the Australian media as possible. They want to press our sympathy button until we can't stand it any more. That they have a sad story does not entitle them to come to Australia. There are even sadder stories in camps in Africa and northern Thailand, but those poor people don't have a media-savvy people-smuggling ring happy to engage the Australian media on their behalf.
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The people who travel through or past two, three or four other countries in order to get to the country of their preference are certainly not those most in need.
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http://tinyurl.com/asylum-hardball

Once he buys all the thousands of fishing boats in Indonesia (lol!) all these problems will stop won't they?
Suseonline,
If you haven't got the mentality to understand the situation then can you at least accept to refrain from making stupid comments like this when we advise you to ?
Abbott did not say he'll buy all indonesian fishing boats. He offered those who have been approached to take illegals to Australia to get money for their boats in return for not taking asylum seekers here. We're talking dozens of boats not thousands. Most nalayan go about their daily business instead of bringing people here.

Suseonline take heart mate, you can laugh at being told your intellect needs attention from a bloke without one.