GWW wrote:So, whats the solution?
On-shore processing? Inverbrackie type arrangements? Straight into the community until processing done? What background checks to be done?
on-shore processing is the way to do it imo. that, and increasing our refugee intake a bit. not a lot, but a bit. i would think women and children could be settled in the community straight away pending their application, as they would be very low risk. and making it easier for asylum seekers to get to australia, so they dont have to resort to hopping on a boat. how we do that im not sure. if this problem was easy it would have been solved by now, but the inhumane response by this government is not the way to go.
tigerpie wrote:To fly here you must have some supporting documents. Yes they may be bullshit but at least they lob with something that immigration can deal with.
Boat arrivals in some/a lot of cases have bugger all.
if you read the article, most of them dont have access to travel documents in the first place. If you are an afghan hazara (sp?), who are being persecuted by the taliban, barely literate, from a rural area, how do you go and get a passport? I know plenty of australians that dont have a passport, i only got one in my early 20s when i wanted to travel overseas for the first time.
you cant exactly lob in at your local government office and say i want a passport, when doing so will probably identify you as someone that said government has been persecuting and will probably get you killed. so not having travel documents in some cases makes them MORE likely to be determined as genuine refugees.
now obviously that makes it bloody hard to make a determination one way or the other, and that is why we need short term processing centres. i am 100% all for making sure they are genuine refugees, and if they are not, they should be sent back straight away.
but i think that it should be done onshore.
GWW wrote: Inverbrackie type arrangements?
what is interesting about inverbrackie is that the local community were originally dead set against having a detention centre in their own backyard, but once it happened, it eventually garnered widespread support, to the point that when the libs said they would close it if they got into government, there was actually a campaign to keep it open, such was the positive impact on the community and local economy
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-30/u ... rs/4988322