Afghans waiting in Indonesia welcome Julia Gillard's policy. |
The
wannabe citizens are ecstatic the government has conceded detention centres are
beyond maximum capacity and that asylum seekers would need to be released into
the community while their applications for refugee status were processed.
They would
be given financial and housing support - as well as free basic health care - a
massive boost from their current financial status in Indonesia where many are
struggling to afford food.
However
the asylum seekers, based in Puncak, 80km from Jakarta, said they feared
Liberal leader Tony Abbott would be successful in his bid to become prime
minister.
"Mr
Abbott is not good for refugees and asylum seekers, he does not like us, he is
not really a nice man," said Zia Haidari, a 25-year-old Afghanistan man
who has attempted - unsuccessfully - to travel to Australia by boat seven
times. "Ms Gillard seems to understand how we feel and is trying her best.”
"Abdulah
Sulamani, 41, heaped praise on Ms Gillard: "She is a hero, you are lucky
to have this woman for your country."
Free Medical Care Waiting in Sydney!
Iranian Mother and Infant Son waiting in Indonesia. |
"If I
can get this free money and house when I come to Australia this will make life
very easy for me," Ms Khavari said. "It is very hard right now for
us, I cannot afford to buy milk formula, we are very hungry. Me and my child
need the generosity of the Australian people.
"If
that doesn't happen my baby may die." Ms Khavari - whose reasons fleeing
Iran were "private" - said the other factor to draw her towards
Australia was free medical care. "I cannot afford to have vaccinations for
my baby so I can get this in Australia.
The praise
directed at the prime minister may be unwelcome by its recipient, with voters
unlikely to be impressed with the notion asylum seekers think they are coming
to a country with soft laws.
A new
monthly record was set in November with 2443 people arriving on boats and Ms
Gillard was asked yesterday if she would bring back temporary protection visas
and tow boats back to Indonesia.
The government last month announced thousands of asylum
seekers threatened with processing in Nauru and Manus Island would be released
in the community in Australia on bridging visas with almost $440 a fortnight
plus help to pay rent.
It is
understood the government is aware large numbers of asylum seekers are rushing
to get on boats in Indonesia before the monsoon season and are undeterred by
the government's pledge to keep them waiting in the community for protection
visas for up to five years under a "no advantage" test.
Ms Gillard
said TPVs and tow backs were not policy options hours before the government
announced 75 people on two boats had been rescued by the Navy off Christmas
Island. "This is a complicated issue for our nation, for nations around
the world," Ms Gillard told Channel 10.
"Anybody
who says that there is a simple fix to you is not telling you the truth. It
takes a range of policies, and we are putting that range of policies in
place."
Indonesians helping Fellow
Muslims Invade Australia?
One of Refugee boats manned by Indonesian crew. |
They eat
their basic evening meals with rusty utensils scattered around. Their tiny
bedrooms contain no blankets and sleep up to eight people. The days are dull
with no ability to work as work visas from Indonesian officials are
non-existent for the travellers.
It is this
harsh reality of life in villages like Punchak combined with the arrival of
news about Labor's policy backflip that is bringing about party fever and the
desire to come to Australia as soon as possible.
Seventeen-year-old
Adres, who does not have a surname listed on his passport, said when he arrived
on Indonesian soil three weeks ago he planned to apply for refugee status
through UNHCR. But upon learning of the over-filled detention centres in
Australia he was determined to travel by sea.
"This
is good news for us, if we stay here and apply for status we might not be
allowed into Australia, but if we come on boat we get the money and
house," Adres said. "This is a great thing and I am very thanking to
the government in your country."
The
Afghanistan teenager, whose father was killed in Pakistan, made the journey to
Indonesia by plane. He saved for the journey and would use his money to engage
people smugglers. "It is a dangerous risk but worth it to get a new
country with opportunities.
"This
is party time."
Just $500 one-way to get $220 a week Dole
A refugee boat scuttled in Australian waters. |
Security
services are reporting instances of offers for passage from Sri Lanka to
Australia for a small portion of the usual fee of up to $10,000.
In the
past three months, more than 3500 people have arrived illegally by boat from
Sri Lanka, overwhelming the detention system and forcing the government to
concede that processing centres on Nauru and Manus Island are stretched and to
shift asylum-seekers into the community without work rights and on allowances
less than the dole.
Immigration
Minister Chris Bowen told The Australian yesterday: "People-smugglers will
continue to do everything they can to maintain their trade."
Details of
the cut-price Sri Lankan deals for passage to Australia came as the government
withdrew yesterday from a court case that was set to put its process of screening
out "illegitimate" asylum-seekers under scrutiny.
Cultural clash between women freedom and oppressive Islam on the beaches of Australia. |
Such a
move could cripple Labor's efforts to deport asylum-seekers, a key plank of its
anti-people-smuggling regime.
As Mr
Bowen yesterday inspected the detention centre in Papua New Guinea, two more
boats carrying a total of 152 people were intercepted off Cocos and Ashmore
islands, adding to a record flow that has brought about 15,000 asylum-seekers
to Australia. The government has been targeting Sri Lankans -- by far the
biggest group to arrive in the past three months -- for processing and return
to Sri Lanka.
The
government has forced back more than 600 Sri Lankans and said many were
"economic migrants" who had not sought refugee status. Although the
majority of Sri Lankans coming to Australia are from the Tamil minority that
lost the civil war, which ended three years ago, many are now Sinhalese.
For the
first time since the government announced on August 13 its policy of sending
asylum-seekers offshore for processing, the government has sent back more Sri
Lankans than have arrived over the past two weeks. In the week ended November
25, 205 Sri Lankans arrived illegally by boat and 283 were sent back; in the
week ended December 2 only 31 arrived and 100 were returned.
Cultural clash between women freedom and evil Islam. |
"No
one should doubt the government's resolve to break this pattern," Mr Bowen
said. "The message is being relayed loud and clear in Sri Lanka that
people-smugglers are telling lies and making false promises about what awaits
people . . .
"Australia
has returned a significant number, almost 600 people, to Sri Lanka
involuntarily who were clearly economic migrants and raised no issues that
engaged Australia's international obligations."
Mr Bowen
repeated the message that Australian Federal Police and Immigration officials
had delivered publicly in Sri Lanka, that "there is no special treatment
and no job on arrival, so if that's why you're coming it's not worth risking your
life or your money because you'll either be sent back, or to Nauru or Manus
Island".
Mr Bowen
would not comment on information that Sri Lankan smugglers were cutting prices
to encourage more people to flood the system in Australia.
Aussies attacking Lebanese Muslims on Cronulla Beach. |
POLICE
will aim to stamp out violence and anti-social behaviour on beaches with a new
foreshore taskforce. The 30-member taskforce will patrol more than 25km of
beach and foreshore between Elwood and Carrum during summer, while also
targeting public transport hubs.
Chelsea
Longbeach Surf Life Saving Club president Judy Silom welcomed the taskforce.
"We're
getting a lot of multicultural visitors (Muslims) from outside the area coming
to our beach and a lot of time the different cultures don't mix," she
said. "They congregate in their hundreds near the pier and unfortunately
we see fighting and damage to cars."
Kingston
Inspector Tim Hansen said police had noticed more people from surrounding
suburbs, even as far as northern suburbs visiting the beaches. "Along with
the taskforce we have an engagement program for multicultural groups,"
Insp Hansen said.
"We're
looking to engage with these youths more and run activities on the beach for
them. Hopefully some sort of sports will take away the element of boredom,
which is what can lead to trouble."
Insp
Hansen said the foreshore taskforce would work closely with lifesaving clubs. "Lifesaving
clubs will also become our eyes and ears on the ground."
(Since Labor's Kevin Rudd's defeat of John Howard's conservative government in 2007 General Elections the previous deterrent measures such as Pacific Island detention centers and short-term Protection Visas were scrapped, and the result is the deluge of illegal boat people mostly Muslims from the Middle East, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh.
Massive Gallipoli Mosque in Auburn, Sydney. |
Overflowed Lakemba Mosque in Sydney. |
(Since Labor's Kevin Rudd's defeat of John Howard's conservative government in 2007 General Elections the previous deterrent measures such as Pacific Island detention centers and short-term Protection Visas were scrapped, and the result is the deluge of illegal boat people mostly Muslims from the Middle East, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh.
Frightened by Australian public opinion against the hordes of illegal
boat-Muslims Julia Gillard's Labor government has so-far brought back the
Pacific Island detention policy last year, but the boats are still arriving
with the tacit support of Muslim Indonesia with funding from the OIC and Saudi
Arabia.
IMHO the only sure way to stop the Muslim boats illegally
entering Australia is to issue these illegal Muslims with short-term Protection
Visas instead of the current Labor government's stupid policy of generously
issuing them Permanent Resident Visas immediately and later the Australian
Citizenship within two years.
John Howard Conservative Government had done it before and
stopped the illegal Muslim flow completely till this stupid Labor mob came in
and totally flooded Australia with Muslim Illegals - who will
eventually vote for Labor once they get their citizenships and voting rights - like Labor's left wing counterparts
have been doing in the Europe and rapidly turning the continent into the
Islamic Republic of Eurabia.)
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Australia Sending Muslim Boat-people to Nauru