Showing posts with label asylum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label asylum. Show all posts

Monday, December 20, 2010

A Restriction on Bringing Relatives Here Is Needed for Unaccompanied Boat Children

Privilege given to asylum minors must be changed. Australian immigration is giving priority to unaccompanied children so that they do not have to face the hardship of being locked up for years. However, this is being used as a stepping stone to get relatives here. The number of children on their own coming here by boat has sky rocketed. One sixth of new arrivals from Afghanistan and Iran are unaccompanied children. This is way ahead of one twelfth for Pakistan.

Like the Afghan man in Indonesia who boldly instructed Australia to hurry up and let him in so he can bring his wife and six children here, this nation is being taken for granted, as easy. Some boat people are plainly arrogant. This man had no feeling for those drowned in the recent boat sinking near Christmas island. All he could say was "at least the survivors are here now while I am stuck in Indonesia."

A restriction of say five years needs to be put on new permanent residents before they have the right to bring out other family members. Considerable time is needed before a wife can follow a husband here. We need such a deterrent. Sure there is a war in Afghanistan but not every disenchanted Afghani can come to Australia.
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A Restriction on Bringing Relatives Here Is Needed for Unaccompanied Boat Children

Privilege given to asylum minors must be changed. Australian immigration is giving priority to unaccompanied children so that they do not have to face the hardship of being locked up for years. However, this is being used as a stepping stone to get relatives here. The number of children on their own coming here by boat has sky rocketed. One sixth of new arrivals from Afghanistan and Iran are unaccompanied children. This is way ahead of one twelfth for Pakistan.

Like the Afghan man in Indonesia who boldly instructed Australia to hurry up and let him in so he can bring his wife and six children here, this nation is being taken for granted, as easy. Some boat people are plainly arrogant. This man had no feeling for those drowned in the recent boat sinking near Christmas island. All he could say was "at least the survivors are here now while I am stuck in Indonesia."

A restriction of say five years needs to be put on new permanent residents before they have the right to bring out other family members. Considerable time is needed before a wife can follow a husband here. We need such a deterrent. Sure there is a war in Afghanistan but not every disenchanted Afghani can come to Australia.
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Sunday, August 8, 2010

Asylum Seeking Is Not a Major Problem for Australia

Asylum seekers aren't the problem, those coming to Australia by air are increasing the population. The Government has put the shutter up on these applicants and net arrivals have fallen from 60,000 to 32,700 in a year. A massive 81,440 have "spit the dummy" and left to live elsewhere. When the door was open for Indians studying here to easily gain residency the future looked bleak. New Indians arriving has slowed by a third. But only 5.45 percent of Indians who study here go home. In the long term, however, they will probably have to leave. Only those doing higher degrees will be in the "required labour" category. This is not a racist view. A loop hole had to be closed.

There seems to be a general downturn not related to the crackdown. Arrivals from New Zealand fell by 40 per cent and from Britain 23.5 per cent. It is notable that permanent migrants fell by 11 per cent. People are "human" if something they want is going to be difficult most give up. Antipodeans are keeping things to themselves: the main category of migrants are from New Zealand.

As time goes by there is not much doubt that Australia will become much more Asian than it is now. Despite India being a major source of permanent migrants, comprising 15,600 of total, immigration from China was 16,600. To put the whole thing into perspective 4,450 new settlers were Sri Lankans. This is the highest ever. Nonetheless, asylum seeking from that country is not a great problem for Australia.
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Asylum Seeking Is Not a Major Problem for Australia

Asylum seekers aren't the problem, those coming to Australia by air are increasing the population. The Government has put the shutter up on these applicants and net arrivals have fallen from 60,000 to 32,700 in a year. A massive 81,440 have "spit the dummy" and left to live elsewhere. When the door was open for Indians studying here to easily gain residency the future looked bleak. New Indians arriving has slowed by a third. But only 5.45 percent of Indians who study here go home. In the long term, however, they will probably have to leave. Only those doing higher degrees will be in the "required labour" category. This is not a racist view. A loop hole had to be closed.

There seems to be a general downturn not related to the crackdown. Arrivals from New Zealand fell by 40 per cent and from Britain 23.5 per cent. It is notable that permanent migrants fell by 11 per cent. People are "human" if something they want is going to be difficult most give up. Antipodeans are keeping things to themselves: the main category of migrants are from New Zealand.

As time goes by there is not much doubt that Australia will become much more Asian than it is now. Despite India being a major source of permanent migrants, comprising 15,600 of total, immigration from China was 16,600. To put the whole thing into perspective 4,450 new settlers were Sri Lankans. This is the highest ever. Nonetheless, asylum seeking from that country is not a great problem for Australia.
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Friday, July 9, 2010

Asylum Seekers to Be Slave Labour

Colin Barnett wants to introduce slave labour. Getting something for nothing may seem to be ideal, but in the modern world some would say it is disgraceful. Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett looks quite an angry person in photo shots. There is obviously something seething away inside him. He seems to have a hatred for refugees. People seeking asylum would have toil away for next to nothing in order to get citizenship if he gets his way.

He is correct in saying that Julia Gillard's "Timor Solution" is an echo of the Pacific solution brought in by John Howard. Colin Barnett is in favor of it. However, forcing "boat People" to work in jobs they don't want is something that Julia Gillard would never contemplate. Bonding them into work contracts is just too simplistic. The UN would say it is internationally illegal. It would not get off the ground.

Mr Barnett is certainly a free thinker. He says he does not "fall into line" with anyone, referring to Opposition Leader Tony Abbot and his views on immigration. I bet Tony Abbot is a bit miffed at not thinking of the idea first. The concept is far to the right, politically, just in Tony Abbot's area. Unless potential new Australians are kept in camps well away from cities people will not support such a scheme. I can see it now - immigrants chained together guarded at gunpoint taken to labour at the nearby quarry in the hot noonday sun. No, it is pie in the sky stuff.
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Asylum Seekers to Be Slave Labour

Colin Barnett wants to introduce slave labour. Getting something for nothing may seem to be ideal, but in the modern world some would say it is disgraceful. Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett looks quite an angry person in photo shots. There is obviously something seething away inside him. He seems to have a hatred for refugees. People seeking asylum would have toil away for next to nothing in order to get citizenship if he gets his way.

He is correct in saying that Julia Gillard's "Timor Solution" is an echo of the Pacific solution brought in by John Howard. Colin Barnett is in favor of it. However, forcing "boat People" to work in jobs they don't want is something that Julia Gillard would never contemplate. Bonding them into work contracts is just too simplistic. The UN would say it is internationally illegal. It would not get off the ground.

Mr Barnett is certainly a free thinker. He says he does not "fall into line" with anyone, referring to Opposition Leader Tony Abbot and his views on immigration. I bet Tony Abbot is a bit miffed at not thinking of the idea first. The concept is far to the right, politically, just in Tony Abbot's area. Unless potential new Australians are kept in camps well away from cities people will not support such a scheme. I can see it now - immigrants chained together guarded at gunpoint taken to labour at the nearby quarry in the hot noonday sun. No, it is pie in the sky stuff.
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