"Immigration Minister Scott Morrison has instructed departmental and detention centre staff to publicly refer to asylum seekers as ''illegal'' arrivals and as ''detainees'', rather than clients.
The directive has been criticised as a ''profound'' shift by a leading asylum seeker agency, which says the new terms are designed to dehumanise people.". . . one assumes that if people on a boat, phone for the taxi service, then their mind set from the start, is that they are the customer.
good strategy by morrisson - he is the man for the job. labor had heaps of relevant ministers over the years - for no other reason, than they and the government were totally weak on the matter of boat people