OzAurora
Refugee
For anyone who is not aware, over the last week there has been a very heated debate happening in Australia involving a Norwegian shipping vessel that is carrying around 450 refugees that is lying, now, within Australian waters, here is the story.....
Most of the immigrants are from the Middle East, with the majority of them being from Afganistan, most of these immigrants found their way to Indonesian and it is here that it is assumed that so called 'people smugglers', would have ensured that they were placed onto a boat that would have ultimately allowed them to come to Australia, this however is illegal and these refugees would not have been given any assurances taht they would be granted entry into Australia. Most illegal immigrants make it to Australia in appaling conditions, on boats that are over crowded, disease ridden and poorly made boats. The refugees who are at the centre of what has been happening in the last week, were on their way to Australia from Indonesia in a boat that was poorly made and thus it started sinking, whilst calling out an SOS, the Norwegian ship that was close by, on the recommendation of Australian authorites came to the rescue of the people and picked them up, with the captain believing that he was going to drop these people off at Christmas Island, which is an Australian island and was close by. The Australian government, led by the most useless PM that we have ever had, John Howard, sternly warned the captain not to enter Australian waters and if he did action would be taken, John Howard believes that the immigrants should return to Indonesia as this is where they came from and the boat they were initially travelling in was Indonesian, however the Indonesian government flatly refused entry to these people, so for the last week this ship has been mored in the distance off Australian waters, waiting to learn what is going to happen to these people.
Now the reason why our PM has had such a firm stance on this issue is for many reasons, even though he has denied that this has had any relevance in his decision making, everyone knows that there is an election this year, so politics will be politics.... in the past months illegal immigrants and boat people and the fighting that has broken out at detention centres has been in the news a lot and it would appear that a lot of average Australians are annoyed at the volume of illegal people entering our country, so John Howard is trying to win over the conservative population, but really in my opinion he has shown to the world how conservative, and insensitive Australia is, I am sure the cattle leaving the country or wanting to come here has been treated better.
I do not have any answers to these questions however I do know that there will always be illegal immigrants wanting to come to countries, we have to remember that people are people, they have hearts and souls, and I know that I am very fortunate to have been born in Australia, but what if I had not????, what then, what if I am persecuted in my home country.....Australia is a huge country, we can house many, human rights are very important and in the last week our PM has once again confirmed my disgust in him, a PM who cant say sorry, will never acknowledge the importance of Australia being a republic and breaking ties with the monarchy and now as a country that is insensitive when it comes to refugees, grow up Mr Howard and stop trying to manouvere evry occurance for political gains........
Most of the immigrants are from the Middle East, with the majority of them being from Afganistan, most of these immigrants found their way to Indonesian and it is here that it is assumed that so called 'people smugglers', would have ensured that they were placed onto a boat that would have ultimately allowed them to come to Australia, this however is illegal and these refugees would not have been given any assurances taht they would be granted entry into Australia. Most illegal immigrants make it to Australia in appaling conditions, on boats that are over crowded, disease ridden and poorly made boats. The refugees who are at the centre of what has been happening in the last week, were on their way to Australia from Indonesia in a boat that was poorly made and thus it started sinking, whilst calling out an SOS, the Norwegian ship that was close by, on the recommendation of Australian authorites came to the rescue of the people and picked them up, with the captain believing that he was going to drop these people off at Christmas Island, which is an Australian island and was close by. The Australian government, led by the most useless PM that we have ever had, John Howard, sternly warned the captain not to enter Australian waters and if he did action would be taken, John Howard believes that the immigrants should return to Indonesia as this is where they came from and the boat they were initially travelling in was Indonesian, however the Indonesian government flatly refused entry to these people, so for the last week this ship has been mored in the distance off Australian waters, waiting to learn what is going to happen to these people.
Now the reason why our PM has had such a firm stance on this issue is for many reasons, even though he has denied that this has had any relevance in his decision making, everyone knows that there is an election this year, so politics will be politics.... in the past months illegal immigrants and boat people and the fighting that has broken out at detention centres has been in the news a lot and it would appear that a lot of average Australians are annoyed at the volume of illegal people entering our country, so John Howard is trying to win over the conservative population, but really in my opinion he has shown to the world how conservative, and insensitive Australia is, I am sure the cattle leaving the country or wanting to come here has been treated better.
I do not have any answers to these questions however I do know that there will always be illegal immigrants wanting to come to countries, we have to remember that people are people, they have hearts and souls, and I know that I am very fortunate to have been born in Australia, but what if I had not????, what then, what if I am persecuted in my home country.....Australia is a huge country, we can house many, human rights are very important and in the last week our PM has once again confirmed my disgust in him, a PM who cant say sorry, will never acknowledge the importance of Australia being a republic and breaking ties with the monarchy and now as a country that is insensitive when it comes to refugees, grow up Mr Howard and stop trying to manouvere evry occurance for political gains........
