Thread: Finally the Aus Goverment have started showing some balls!

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Such a lovely poem that, it brings a lump to me throat. Inconveniently though, most of our modern asylum seekers are not exactly the wretched refuge off your teeming shores- they are the ones with the money &/or influence to get on the boat in the first place. Neither does Australia wish to be the new 'New Colossus'.

We're a bit soft in Oz- we can't exactly sink them at sea, we don't even necessarily blame them as individuals for wanting to come to the land of milk n honey. But they only come because they are pretty confident of getting in. That's why the demand is there. And it is illegal- those people are committing a crime.

So, we're removing the demand- and I believe it is an effective policy. I recently read a story from Australia about some would be asylum seekers, wailing and gnashing their teeth about having paid the traffickers to take them to Oz with their 'life savings' (maybe)- only to be put on the next plane to Malaysia. I want them to read that in Kabul and Somalia too.

It's up to Us who gets in, not You.