Asylum Seekers And Refugees

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Are the asylum seekers who arrive on our shores by boat “queue jumpers” or refugees? Is Australia’s current treatment of asylum seekers a violation of human rights? Imagine yourself and your family in a country where all you are in grave of danger. Would you either fill in all the forms and wait to be processed for years which they can wait to inevitably die? Or will you spend all your money to send them on a tremendously unsafe and overcrowded leaky boat trip where they will most likely die? And if they make it, they’re be processed in safely? Those ‘boat people’ come from poor regions and spend their entire life savings trying to get on a boat to send their family off to countries to escape from oppression, war, persecution or poverty in their home nations since their won government is unable or unwilling to protect them. Therefore, they have got no other choice but to escape in haste, without the time or the accessible resources to apply for visas. It’d be the hardest decision they will ever make in their lifetime and could be something they would regret forever.…show more content…
This word was perpetuated by the media and conservative politicians. Such as in 2004, John Howard persuaded a lot of people that refugees were evil ‘queue jumpers’, where people throw their children overboard. However, after he ‘won’ the election, he admitted that he intentionally lied about the ‘children overboard’. Also, Tony Abbot was disorderly loud and disorderly in his election campaign calling: STOP THE BOAT. He recognized that majority of Australians had negative opinions on asylum seekers and therefore made it the top slogan for political gains. Therefore, Australians should open their hearts and gain their compassion to those desperate, persecuted refugees, represented as any human

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