Refugees and asylum seekers
Dear reader,
I am
saddened by the way both the Coalition and the ALP play upon our fears in their
treatment of both refugees and asylum seekers under the pretext of border
protection. Firstly they imply that they have broken Australian laws, but won’t
test it in a court of law, secondly they try and de-humanise them by not
referring to them by name and thirdly their trauma is continued by the way they
are treated in detention. The whole aim is to desensitise us to their trauma
and to get us used to suspending our natural empathy towards someone in
distress. Yet these same people harp on about giving people a “fair go”,
hypocrites I cry.
Good leaders unite a nation, not divide it. So I
urge people to let their candidates know that if they want your vote, they need
to demonstrate some empathy to those in need.
Robin Hesketh
Bellingen
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