What are your views about the people that are kept in assylum in Australia (the Boat People refugees)?
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America kept Cuban boat people under a overpass in Miami, Florida for a year, before we let them out in society. They were mostly from Castro's prisons.
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Australia needs to get real. Your a nation of convicts who deny ex-felons the right to visit your country. You stole the land from the Aborigines and have inbred for the past 100 years, what is your problem?
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Thats like saying are all Americans stupid and unable to type in anything other that text messaging lingo.\n\nWhat a stigma, how rediculous. There are absolutely wonderful people in the outback, struggling to maintain family businesses in very hard conditions.
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They don't really!\n\npeople cant afford to live there, it is not a refugee camp.\n\nJust a title so they can feel good.
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Oustanding question! You probably wont see many liberal viewpoints here. In response, YES. People seem to want to settle with their own racial background. There is very little real diversity and this is what most people have problems with. It is these (remember that guy having a go at John Reid) 'Muslim areas' where tension between in the indiginous population and within themselves will develop. Lets just cast our minds back to july 7th 2005.  Apparently those guys were 'british'. Im sure the 52 people on those trains and buses would question that. That is merely a prelude to what could be a regular occurence. And yes it will become like baghdad. with different 'muslims' fighting amongst themselves. Meanwhile all the anglo saxons will be recreating histroy and fleeing to Australia and the USA. This is a bad time and it needs to be addressed aggresively if needs be. \n\nYou want to play on our pitch? \nYou play by our rules.
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Dear Aussiegirl,\nI was an elementary school student. Ethnical, religious and economically different of my classmates, I was a hated marginal. Unable of going on such a miserable life, I thought about suicide, in a dark corner of my street - Sao Paulo was a bit provincial then - when I saw a beautiful girl crying. She told me that she was a miserable girl because everybody hated her. So, she disappeared. I thought that I was crazy, but relatives of mine told me that she was a suicide girl who lived there in the end of XIX.th century, hated because she had african origins. You can find many references about it at our municipal library.\nBelieve me: she saved me, but it was the most terrifying event of my life.
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to be honest the British people are sick to death of our government putting foreigners before us, there is already a shortage of housing in the UK. and the government still let\nthe asylum seekers flood our country. \nthe government will turn its back on the elderly and the young homeless but will house and feed asylum seekers,\nif you are American/European/Australian you will have no problem whatsoever with the British but if you are from Africa/Pakistan/or other 3rd world countries then you will\njust not be liked!\nmaybe it is racism maybe its not but that's how it is..............
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no Aussies are warm and great people.....i was an immigrant to australia....and i find that if you are able to integrate into their society....(which is amazing).....everyone's cool
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We are still a part of the Commonwealth. We still have those in Australia who are Royalists.The Governor General is her representative here. We still pay all her costs and expenses when she visits here, well any of them that visit here, even though most times they are highly out of public reach. I have nothing against her personally but to me as an Australian, in my country she has no relevance to me.We became an independent nation at the turn of the century. We are our own people, problems and all. I have an Aboriginal mother and white father.My opinion comes from my experiences on both sides of the fence. She does nothing in Australia or for Australia or Australians. She is a figure head only that is really only a representation of ties with our past and history. I have seen my Indigenous history and ancestory destroyed and my relations including myself still feel the effects and pains of ties to Royalty and British Law. I think she is a lovely person who has sacrificed a great deal because of her heritage and responsibilities even taking all the perks she has aside. However she is not my Queen, never was and never will be. And no... I do not bow to her picture when entering a courtroom or other such place. It's not a sign of disrespect to her. It's a sign of self respect to myself and my cultural beliefs. I do not worship her. This is only my opinion and I respect if you disagree so plse don't jump all over me for voicing my opinion.\n\n\n\nTo genie81au...That statement you made re being held responsible for acts of genocide by the brits and those thereafter is a pretty pathetic excuse for remaining tied to the Queen. It's a statement of ignorance. Those past deeds are fact and while I do not hold you responsible for what happened to my people, no restoration, repatriation or apology has ever been remotely considered or implemented. Sad to see that in 2006 people still retain your attitude. Well they say ignorance is bliss. Unless you have walked in the shoes and fely the effects you wouldnt have a damn clue.
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You've kind of answered your own question...it's actually not the aborigines they were referring to, but to the alaskans....damn cold there!
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Yes. But I think its not just only about this cartoons, the political fierce between this two countries is being escalated since Australia granted temporary protection visas to 42 of 43 Papuans who arrived by boat at Cape York in January.\n\nAustralia must choose between two: Maintain bilateral ties with Indonesia, or have a relationship with the 42 Papuans raising the banner of the Free Papua Movement.\n\nThen the problem was increased, with "Cartoon's War" from both of this countries.\n\nBe Wise...:)
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I think you might of misunderstood.  I have never heard of a country deporting it's own citizens. Not recently, anyway.  England deported a bunch of it's prisoners and they formed what is now modern day Australia.  But that was a while back.  \n\nI am curious to find out if you are right though.  I can't imagine another country would accept them.\n\nAnd if they are deported to the US that doesn't make sense.  That would be like giving someone a bag of apples to punish them for stealing apples.
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Thank you.  It's nice to know who our friends are and believe me, the respect and admiration goes both ways.  Though if you want a true look at who these "anti-war" protestors are, follow the link.  The zombietime "hall of shame" is enough to make one's dinner return.  However, the photographer also highlights the good people in the counter-protests and those who oppose terrorism in the "Bus-19" event.\n\nIt's amazing to see the difference between the rabid "anti-war" leftists and those who oppose them with dignity and self-respect.\n\nJust so one knows, I use "anti-war" as these "tolerant" and "open-minded" protestors seem to support any war in which the USA and her allies are destroyed and thus are only "anti-war" when the USA and her allies are winning.  Though, ironically, these same people are the first the terrorists would kill if given the chance (the "Queers for Palastine" group obviously didn't read Islamic Law's view on homosexuality)...  A chance the Armed Forces of America, England, and Australlia not to mention police and intelligence agencies world-wide will not give the terrorists.  \n\nYes, the irony of it all is the same people the leftists hate so much are protecting those same leftists from the terrorists and dictators they seem to love.
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The land where kangaroos and koalas run through the streets, everyone is known Bruce or Sheila, G'day mate is the only greeting known and the people have close relationships with their sheep...only joking!!\n\nI think Australia is a great country, very similar to my own country South Africa- probably the reason why there are so many South Africans staying in Australia (most noticeably Perth).\n\nAussie women are great (someone like Imogen Bailey-wow) although men of Australia...that's a whole different story.\nI think its cool that Aussies put so much into their sport-especially their cricket and swimming.\nAnd the fact that they are a country that believes in their convictions and are not afraid to stand up for those convictions (even though it may make them unpopular with some other countries) is cool.\n\nAlthough maybe you could get them to stop singing Waltzing Matilda before rugby games...;-)
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I dont think that we will ever understand the way the people thier live.... I agree that it is a hornets nest....\nseems like everything that I have read about the area points towards war.......seems like the only semi stable goverment the whole area had was during the otterman empire... I like the people I met thier and I enjoyed traveling there... not sure if democracy is going to take.. \n seems like thier mindset is more of a tribal nature... where the order of alliegence is God,family , tribe. then country.......makes for some interesting interaction... a good book\nhttp://www.danielpipes.org/article/32/\nI enjoyed it .....helped me understand the area a little better.. Peace
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Just goes to show how little regard these people have for human life.   The illegals will continue to come whether the water tanks are there or not...if their own countries would not LET them leave illegally (I don't see Mexico trying to do anything on THEIR side to keep them or enforcing THEIR laws for leaving the country) while I have never been much of a humanitarian...hell I'm as likely to bust someones head in as not...BUT I have also seen someon dye of thirst and it is a gruesome sight...and even I cruel as I am would not inflict that one any but those I though truly deserved such suffering, dying of thirst is even worse than dying of hunger...far worse...and anyone that would facilitate such a thing should have to be let come close to death in taht way just to know what they are doing to someone esle...Entering the country is NOT a capital offence and these men have no right to impose it on the illegals...there are legal measn to deal with them...and they are supposed to be enforcing that...not trying to torture people, some of whom are children.
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I am already involved in the sudanese genocide in Dufor.It really broke my heart to see the story.\n\nOver a million blacks have been forced from their homes by Arab militias backed by the government, into camps if they aren't raped/killed on the way as tens of thousands have been. Now, the rainy season is coming which will worsen the sickness and malnutrition already rampant in the camps and make it tougher for aid to get in.\n\n I have sent a small but helpful donation.I wish I could go there and do some hands on help...especuially with the children who are homeless and in trouble.\n\nA big thank you for posting this and making others aware!!!