Please ma'am, should me how things have improved.

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I agree Ruddy has not been a huge improvement. Aus has a lot of shame to live down.

But the "Pacific Solution" is over. That is a start

Rudd must do more

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worse things could happen

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Screaming about real terrorists being subjected to the horrors of sharing their cell with a caterpillar!

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Think me a bigot? This I freely admit. I am intolerant of...
any Org that codifies religious dogma into law & a judiciary that sets a price for the murder of women & still practices institutionalized racism & slavery & stonings, & public hangings of homosexuals & genital mutilation.
Better to be an informed bigot than a politically correct dolt!

Citation please. What they are doing is not illegal - it is legal until they are proven not to be refugees. Then they are illegal immigrants. Don't confuse immigrants with asylum-seekers.

Yep - they are LEGAL asylum seekers until they are declared refugees or not.

As per the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 14)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univers...f_Human_Rights
"Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution."


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asylum_...Asylum_seekers
"Until a request for refuge has been accepted, the person is referred to as an asylum seeker. Only after the recognition of the asylum seeker's protection needs, he or she is officially referred to as a refugee and enjoys refugee status, which carries certain rights and obligations according to the legislation of the receiving country."

http://www.unhcr.org.au/basicdef.shtml
"An asylum seeker is a person who has left their country of origin, has applied for recognition as a refugee in another country, and is awaiting a decision on their application."


That's right - after assessment - not before.

He IS better. No group of politicians in the history of Australian politics will ever be worse than Howard, Ruddock, and Vanstone. When Amnesty asked Ruddock, the demoniser of refugees to stop wearing his Amnesty badge, he refused. Arrogance on top. Vanstone, the feeble-minded twit, and Howard, the PM who secretly / and not so secretly crowed and danced and looked elated when racist, Pauline Hanson arrived on the scene.

Of course Rudd is better! The fact we don't have a racist for PM any more speaks volumes. Howard's stance towards refugees was disgusting. In fact, his stance towards most things was disgusting.

When over 350 refugees died in our waters, Howard was more concerned with maintaining his vitriol and demonising of refugees - and barely acknowledged the devastating tragedy. Disgusting man.

Perhaps no one could ever come out with worse policies, but when new politicians are comming out with policies that are almost as bad, ON TOP of the awful ones from Howard (ie the gun ban), then they are no better. The duopoly is disgusting, and what's worse is that Australians are not having these atrocious policies imposed upon them, we are demanding them. This has to be the least educated country on earth when it comes to politics.

Please sir, demonstrate how things are any better with Rudd. Until we start allowing anyone into the country for work (provided we know who they are) I will not be happy with our immigration policy. Pretty dsturbing, since we aren't even natives.

There is no argument against an open border that is not racist, or just awfully unrealistic. Neither of them are racist, in my opinion, but both support racist policies by not fully allowing for the free movement of people.

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