Because this is an issue because people are afraid of refugees.
/eyeroll
Ricardo
14 years ago
Personally I’m not afraid of boat people but do have problems with a system that encourages people to take the extreme risk of getting into leaky boats.
Personally I think we should take lots of refugees.
However, an immigration system that had you pay a large fee for a 90% chance of acceptance but randomly shot 3 in 100 of the applicants (regardless of merit, including women and children) would not be described as compassionate I think, but that’s effectively what we’ve got.
Encouraging the boats doesn’t get more refugees into the country as we operate a cap. It just results in dead boat people (and a warm innner glow for their advocates).
Discourage the boats, take the refugees from the camps.
(note total boat arrivals to from 1991 to May 2010 15,379 – estimated dead at least 500)
BTW, arguments around small numbers are illogical. It implies that there is some larger number at which it could be a problem – would 50,000, 100,000, 250,000 be OK?
observa
14 years ago
…,just leaky ones and their arsonist scuppers!
observa
14 years ago
A special Class of boats known as ‘Indonesian Ferries’ where the OH&S message ‘Allah Akhbar!’ meaning ‘Sleep on deck only!’ is repeated constantly to passengers over loudspeakers.
observa
14 years ago
The moral of which is- Beware of cheap slogans. Nuff said.
Great slogan
Agreed, indeed!
This now graces the wall of my cubicle.
Because this is an issue because people are afraid of refugees.
/eyeroll
Personally I’m not afraid of boat people but do have problems with a system that encourages people to take the extreme risk of getting into leaky boats.
Personally I think we should take lots of refugees.
However, an immigration system that had you pay a large fee for a 90% chance of acceptance but randomly shot 3 in 100 of the applicants (regardless of merit, including women and children) would not be described as compassionate I think, but that’s effectively what we’ve got.
Encouraging the boats doesn’t get more refugees into the country as we operate a cap. It just results in dead boat people (and a warm innner glow for their advocates).
Discourage the boats, take the refugees from the camps.
(note total boat arrivals to from 1991 to May 2010 15,379 – estimated dead at least 500)
BTW, arguments around small numbers are illogical. It implies that there is some larger number at which it could be a problem – would 50,000, 100,000, 250,000 be OK?
…,just leaky ones and their arsonist scuppers!
A special Class of boats known as ‘Indonesian Ferries’ where the OH&S message ‘Allah Akhbar!’ meaning ‘Sleep on deck only!’ is repeated constantly to passengers over loudspeakers.
The moral of which is- Beware of cheap slogans. Nuff said.