Japanese refugee plan to go before Prime Minister Julia Gillard By Gavin King From: The Cairns Post March 17, 2011 8:18AM

QUEENSLAND Senator Jan McLucas will meet Prime Minister Julia Gillard next week to discuss the proposal to open the Far North's doors to thousands of Japanese tsunami refugees.
Senator McLucas said the idea, floated by businessman Dean Pradal in response to the unprecedented humanitarian crisis in Japan, was worth exploring.


Under the plan, up to 5000 Japanese people left homeless by the tsunami could be housed in hotels and apartments across the Far North for up to six months, The Cairns Post said.

Up to 500,000 people are homeless after last Friday's earthquake and tsunami.

The relocation plan would need to be subsidised by the Federal Government's foreign aid budget, which is expected to contribute millions of dollars to the embattled country.

Senator McLucas applauded the Far Northern community for generating the offer of help for Japan, with similar sentiments on display in the wake of the Victorian bushfires, the floods and cyclone Yasi. "Japan is much more than a trading partner to Australia, they are our friends and they are in need of help," she said.

"The Far North has a particularly strong connection to Japan and it is heartening to see the goodwill on offer by locals.

"I will raise the offer with the Prime Minister when we're back in Parliament next week and explore whether such an idea is possible.

"Most importantly, we need to consider whether Japan would be accepting of this form of support and is something their local residents want."

Leichhardt MP Warren Entsch also supports the idea, saying he had spoken to Coalition leader Tony Ab



Now is this a worrying development if implemented?
I mean if the crisis with japans nuclear powerstations goes from bad to worse and there are meltdowns thereby contaminating large sections of japan then what?...could this japanese refugees for queensland proposal start as  a trickle and end in a flood?

cods wrote on Mar 22^nd, 2011 at 12:41pm:

Who ever thought of this idea is clinically insane.

The Australian Government and State, like the UK, Ireland, The US and most European regimes are outlaw and rogue driven by Imperialism rather than reason and law.  We in the West are the ones who require regime change, desperately for the sake of our peoples.  We deserve better than these nutjobs.

all this selling off took place under the Howard regime including the deal he proudly anounced of selling our gas to  china at a fixed price of 4 cents a litre for the next 30 years

billy the fish wrote on Mar 22^nd, 2011 at 3:38pm:



I agree that politicians from the Libs & Labs have sold Australia at garage sale prices to make themselves seem like they can manage the Australian economy, when in fact they cannot without selling off publically owned assets or fertile Agricultural land.