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Louis Pastrami's avatar

For doesn't reason I have absolutely no doubt whatsoever that no matter how little housing, money, food, water, no matter how few jobs, school places the boats won't be smashed. The asylum seekers will not be removed. And the longer they stay, the more children they have, the more power they will yield.

Don't get me wrong! I'd be fine with that if I knew that I'd be welcomed as an equal in the countries they hail from. I wouldn't be. Im Jewish for a start, and female, and past my childbearing years. I'm also mouthy and not wearing a hijab or anything else dictated by long haired men in pyjamas.

They are determined to convert the world and anyone who doesn't realise that needs an intensive wake up call.

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Lyn Boxall's avatar

Australia had a major problem with asylum seekers during when John Howard was Prime Minister. (He was PM from 1996 to 2007, when a Labour Government was elected.)

Asylum seekers were coming by boat from Indonesia. My recollection is that Howard wanted to send a strong message to people smugglers who were profiting from their plight by selling them passage on the boats. So, in about 2001 Howard introduced a 'turn back the boats' policy with the intention that over time asylum seekers would learn that it was useless to pay people smugglers, so they wouldn't do so and the boats would stop coming. Turning back the boats caused a major political scandal so this approach was abandoned.

Next, the Australian Government established offshore facilities for asylum seeker detention while their applications for asylum were being processed. That cause a different major political scandal. Over time, these facilities were closed down. What happens now, I don't know, not least because I left Australia many years ago and no longer follow what's happening there.

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