I really hate things that were founded by religion

[KichigaiNeko]

I like exchanging gifts, having a great lunch with my family,and of course timing my exit before first blood..

I hate the humbuggery, the maudlin sentimentality and the need for super extra caution to maximise my chance of getting from A to B to A alive rather than being killed by some fuckwit full of faux bon homie and alcohol.

That happens EVERY FKN DAY HERE IN PERTH padraic!!

For me?? It's just another day although it is a time to catch up with a family that are not at war with each other.

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destroying their detention centres and wondering why the Aussie Publlic are up in arms against them.

Mm, yet no one,except organistations such as amnesty international, thinks to ask why they are there in the first place,instead of being processed in Australia (as were a great many more in the 1980's).

OR why a non-problem,by any realistic measurement, has been made into a tacky political issue instead of a humanitarian one.

I'd burn the fucking place down too if I was locked up in some remote place, perhaps for years, when I had done NOTHING ILLEGAL. It is NOT illegal for a person to turn up on a shore in boat and ask "please can I stay?"

The callous,inhumane treatment of refugees by our incumbent government has cost them my vote. The most recent idea is the plan to send several hundred to Malaysia,including many unaccompanied minors. Malaysia is NOT a signatory to the international convention of the treatment of refugees. We are. This brilliant idea is currently on hold,after being challenged as illegal in the high court.


This a sensitive topic for me. During the 1980's, I processed THOUSANDS of refugees, from Vietnam,Cambodia,El Salvador, Chile, Columbia and Eastern Europe, whilst working for Social Security. I saw first hand how it can and should be done. (under a conservative government too) This current treatment is based on pure bigotry and ignorant, stupid fear..

I wouldn't call Villawood NSW a remote centre. Christmas Island is very close to Western Australia.

The destruction of these places do get people angry and then to find out that there are 4000 processed people in Malaysia just makes the "boat people" and their 'People smugglers' of Indonesia another target of Aussie anger.

Like you say pad.. This Labor/Greens govt has taken a process and done what it seems to do best...Just FUBA-Retrievability