Treatment of refugees
This
government is prepared to spend over $100million to give the prime minister an
opportunity to make a press announcement. It employs hundreds of staff to guard
no-one. Surely this money would be better spent treating their traumas and not
heaping more traumas on them by their continued detention and besmirching their
good names with implied criminality and intent to commit acts of terror.
There
are still 915 refugees and asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru, we as a
nation are culpable of continuing the torture of these people as we knowingly
continue treatment that causes harm. There is a very clear distinction between
protecting our borders and the care of refugees and asylum seekers and it is not
as our leaders portray it.
Earlier
the prime minister alleged that there were 60 suspects, he was repeatedly asked
for a specific number, he refused to answer the question, yet the police had
told him that there was only suspect.
After
the atrocity in Christchurch by an Australian citizen who only migrated to New
Zealand in 2017 Scott Morrison is trying to distance himself from the statements
he made as border protection minister and as prime minister inciting fear and
distrust within our community. He is trying to shrug off his complicity in this
terror attack so as to gain political advantage. True leaders try to unite the
nations and not divide them, in my opinion this man and his cabinet are not fit
to govern.
Nearer
election day do not be surprised to read that a people smuggling boat has “slipped”
through the Border Protection cordon either. The old trick.
Robin
Hesketh
Bellingen
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