As a human being I am not happy with this decision — it’s not about left or right, it’s about remembering that this issue is about people. Asylum seekers have a human right to seek refuge and freedom from persecution, a human right to live their lives without the fear of death. Will they find that in PNG, I do not know.
These are people, not political footballs, and Australia should be able to be a safe haven for them. Australia certainly doesn’t seem to be going out of its way to send back its true illegal immigrants, all those English and Irish boys who stay way past their expired visas.
It’s an issue that sadly Australia has never dealt with in a mature and proud manner. Whether it was clubbing Chinese immigrants to death in their beds in the 1860s, to Federation where a strong catalyst was being able to decide who we let in, to the White Australia policy that inspired apartheid and racist massacres in South Africa, to the current day, where our land of plenty is suddenly full of cars bearing stickers saying “Fuck Off We’re Full”.
It’s not about right or left, right or wrong, or us or them. It’s about fellow human beings who choose to leave their own country behind out of fear of death, wanting to find a place where they can live and possibly build a family in peace and safety.
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Will it change the way I vote, no.
Not when the other option stands for elitism, economic mismanagement, anti-public health, anti-environment, anti-small business, anti-equality (of gender, sexuality, ability, race, religion), anti-science, and anti-truth.
I am disappointed, both in the ALP for taking this stance and for the loud bigots who have made a stance like this a popular choice. But I can only change the world one idiot at a time, so am, in the vernacular, “sucking it up princess”, at least for now.
I’ve working in PNG. I couldn’t think of a worse place to go as a refugee. To put it bluntly, it is a shithole.
What makes me most angry about this policy is the fact former PM Gillard, current PM Rudd and a raft of other members of the ALP cried in 07 as they dismantled former PM Howards policies only to now create something even worse.
I’m also shocked at the same Labor diehards who I’ve seen on twitter basically come out and read the parties briefing notes line by line after the release of this policy. These were the same wonks outraged at Howards policy. They say the religious zelots blindly follow like sheep. They have nothing on some of the ALP faithful.
Saying all that, I’m like you mate. I’ll be voting ALP mostly cause the other side of the fence is worse in a lot of other ways.
I do hope however this does show a few people that both sides are really as bad as each other and the old Keating saying of “In a 2 horse race where one of the horses in names self interest, always bet on self interest”. Rudds done that, and the ALP might win. If they dont the ALP done the LNP’s dirty work for them. Given its their policy, they wont even be able to hold the moral ground in opposition and block it in the senate.
The world is a rather shitty place.