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). ... that man is none other than Dr Munjeed Al-Maduris
He didn't spend years locked up at all. He was detained at Curtin for 10 months while his identity and story was verified. The bloke had flown to Malaysia from Jordan on a passport that identified his occupation as Handyman. He then decided to take a people smuggler's boat from Indonesia to Christmas Island and destroyed his passport before embarking.
And contrary to your assertion that he had to use every legal avenue, he in fact availed himself of none. His application was processed without any recourse to appeals.