Dear diligent, How do you know that they are not genuine refugees if we dont process them in an orderly fashion and besides, we now use the same criterion as the previous government, the only difference being that the Howard government rented pacific island accommodation as an interim measure.
It can take years to obtain adequate information from war torn countries on which to base refugee status and it seems perfectly good economic sense to house these people in a place like Leonora rather than paying lodging in Naru.
And when it comes to telling the truth, it would be useful for those racist apologists to come out and tell the truth rather than clouding the issue with a person loosing her job because she could not perform her job role without prejudice.
Our involvement in foreign wars is very relevent today in taking refugees from war-torn regions such as Afghanistan/Iraq just as it was accepting boat people from Vietnam in the the 1970s and despite what the racists say, Australia is a far better country because of it and it is something of which we should be all proud!
Our humanitarian treatment of refugees makes us that much more than being merely Uncle Sams leutenant.
