Australia’s Offshore Cruelty
Australians will take lecture from the New York Times after The USA perfects its record.<p>This article is full of bias-pushing, including the idea that what happens to the people on Nauru is mysterious or that they are in limbo, or that they are in some type of concentration camp.<p>The families on Nauru are free to leave and return to their country of origin any time they choose.  They are free to participate in the local community and are not behind barbed wire.<p>The people who have self-harmed have been in contact with the legal industry inside Australia that prospers from their continued presence.  These refugee advocates, in full knowledge of the state of the people in Nauru, don&#x27;t seek to help them but seek to play them as pawns in their deadly game.<p>The undeniable facts of the matter was that when Australia temporarily relaxed the border protection laws, by the governments own statistics, at least 1,500 men, women and children drowned at sea.  Most well known was when a timber fishing boat smashed into rocks in front of news cameras as people drowned.<p>Since the reinstatement of the laws, the only people who have been harmed are those that have self-harmed.<p>There is zero doubt that the laws save lives, and crucially, also provide the ability for people to support genuine refugee settlement, such as the processing of 12,000 Syrian refugees, more than the USA is doing, despite the USA having 14x the population of Australia.<p>The laws have broad support amongst Australian voters, including this voter.  The advocates for open borders and a &#x27;let them in&#x27; attitude are a small but noisy minority.<p>Australia still maintains a sizeable immigrant intake every year, drawing on people from around the world.<p>Frankly, the rest of the world can call me and fellow citizens as many names as they like but border protection is an important task for a Federal government, and I&#x27;m totally comfortable with it.