Originally Posted by
AerialPerspective
Well, the government's obtuse attitude toward refugees could help the situation - at least one person I know of that arrived on a boat as a genuine refugee and spent years locked up in North-Western Australia just for running away from a situation where he was to be executed if they caught him (in Iraq). It is an example of what bone-heads we have running this country (both sides of politics), as that man is none other than Dr Munjeed Al-Maduris who, thanks to him using every legal avenue to get out of detention, is now the spear-head of Australia leading the world in osseo-integration surgery. He has changed so many lives, not just in Australia but all over the world and everyone else is behind us because of him.
I wonder how many other Dr Munjeeds there are languishing on Manus Island or on their way back to their home country. Yet, we can afford to spend millions locking up two adults and 2 little children on a deserted island.
Very true. For a country that has founded itself on the basis of immigration, it’s a strange stance to take.