Lawless alright!

In case this slipped past you, the Christmas Island Immigration Reception and Processing Centre, aka Detention Centre, purpose built by Howard to handle asylum seekers,is undergoing a big change. (thought the Pacific NonSolution worked so perfectly? In the tiny minds of RWNJs perhaps.)

In May this year the government announced that due to the need to save money it was no longer to be used for it’s original purpose. Tony had stopped the boats and there was no need for it. I would think it would have been preferable to move the poor souls trapped on Manus Island and Nauru there, to wait to be processed and resettled, and save billions by closing the hellholes, but I’m not the government. Instead asylum seekers in the detention centre began to be transferred to Nauru and Manus.

The official line was parts of the place would be closed with the most prison-like section to be used as a ‘contigency’ from next year.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-13/christmas-island-detention-centre-to-close...

It soon became clear that the facility was increasingly being used as a gaol, a modern-day prison hulk, holding people who had had their visas cancelled, people the government had decided to deport or detain as part of their new purge.

Christmas Island detention centre being used to hold bikies, murderers with cancelled visas
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-28/problem-immigration-detainees-sent-to-chri...

Naturally these prisoners, many of whom had been living in Australia for decades, were not happy about being incarcerated indefinitely on an island, away from their friends, families and lawyers. Some were pretty dodgy types anyway. Things became violent. This caused a lot of worry for asylum seekers still on the island. The government is is no hurry to move them all.

Asylum seekers say they are under attack as violence erupts in detention centres
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/oct/01/influx-of-501s-into-detent...

Too many prisoners are New Zealanders.
Raised in Australia, he’s among a wave of Kiwis held on Christmas Island as visas revoked
http://www.smh.com.au/national/kiwis-held-on-christmas-island-as-visas-revoked-2...

The NZ government is very worried about all this. John Key has expressed his concerns to AllBull, who has done nothing. Our government doesn’t give a frack. Dutton, who must have got his jollies as a kid pulling wings off butterflies and torturing small animals, uses the place as his own private torture chamber while AllBull looks the other way.

One more thing – the place is run by Serco.
http://www.serco-ap.com.au/our-services/our-work/immigration-services/

Told you Mal is worse than abbott.

Jovial Monk wrote on Oct 31^st, 2015 at 1:47pm:


You expect it to work so perfectly??!!

In addition - the Pacific Solution had about 15 deaths for the period between 2003-2007 with 200 illegals arriving

So lets examine what Labor replaced the Pacific Solution with!!

Labor's plan killed over 2000 illegals dying and 55,000 illegals arriving

We can all see how Labor's plan was "worked so perfectly" to kill people

Armchair_Politician wrote on Oct 31^st, 2015 at 2:00pm:

I guess things have to be put in words of one syllable for the dunce of OzPol.

They are putting violent criminals with Asylum Seekers imprisoned there. Asylum seeker families, men, women & children. That is not a good thing. Do you need an explanation of WHY that is not a good thing?

Jovial Monk wrote on Oct 31^st, 2015 at 4:46pm:


As they attempted to enter our country illegally against our wishes, they're right at home there I reckon!

Honestly what do you think happens to refugees when they don't come to Australia? They vanish into the ether?

The fact you conservatives are trotting out the same debunked myths over and over again (Queue jumping, economic refugees, correct channels) shows that you simply don't actually care about Refugees, you use this situation as a xenophobic political club then cry crocodile tears when things don't go your way.

You could bring in every refugee that comes on a boat and stick them on welfare for decades for the cost of the Offshore detention solution. You bring up Europe, but ignore that Europe has taken vastly more people and Europe is geographically easier to get too.

Also you block climate change policy and support wars in the middle east which causes these major issues to begin with, the Syrian Civil War started with a very unusual, very harsh drought that caused the cities to be overburdened with rural people fleeing collapsing water supplies, it could easy be called the first climate conflict.

Armchair_Politician wrote on Oct 31^st, 2015 at 6:53pm:

It is not illegal to seek asylum.

Armchair_Politician wrote on Oct 31^st, 2015 at 1:08pm:


Outrageous!

Seeking a more comfortable life?

Bring back the noose.