Should Australia let West Papuan refugees stay in the country even if Indonesia gets upset?
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Australia has an obligation under the 1967? (i think) UN Warsaw Human Rights agreement to allow asylum seekers into the country and thoroughly investigate their individual circumstances before deciding on their refugee status.  The feelings of the Indonesian people and / or Government should not stand in the way of our International (and humanitarian!) obligations.
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Hi I hope that you enjoy your trip to our wonderful country. I think that you will find that most Aussies like and respect all other nationalities the only thing that I will suggest is not to take yourself too seriously and to not expect us to believe that America or Americans are the be all and end all in this world. Just remember that we are Australian and not clones of America and I think that you will get along fine.  I say this to you as the manager of a backpacker hostel in Perth W.A.\nGood Luck
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Legal Immigrants should stay\n\nIllegal Immigrants - should go home and be permanently barred for not following our laws\n\nWe need law abiding citizens\n\nBy the way my wife is a LEGAL Immigrant from the Philippines\nIt took us over a year to get her here and we paid over $1000.00 \nbut we followed all the rules\n\nAm I a Racist ???   - Hardly\nLaw abiding and respecting - Yes\n\nYou need to respect another Country's laws if you want to live there
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I think he should stay in Australia or take his family back to the United States with him.  Living in separate countries is not a good idea.  Money isn't everything.  As a matter of fact, money is nothing compared to a happy, healthy family.
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try to get refugee status in any western european country ,..... but I THINK TURKEY IS ALSO IN EUROPE !!!!
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What you describe is not the way a person should act.  This type of thing is not unusual.  I see much worse in this part of the world.  If so then no he should not be allowed to stay.  I do agree with GW Bush when he said immigrants should take the values of the nation they are going to.  If I acted that way here I most likely would not live very long.  I mean that.
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Aren't there Australian consulates or embassies in Iraq? I know there were before the Gulf War, not really sure what the situation is like now.\n\nIf the situation is that bad, you can try contacting any Western embassy to see if they might provide asylum. The EU has a standing policy on asylum-seekers, so you might have luck if you contact any of their consulates.
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No, they should go home and fix THEIR country. I think our country's headed for bankruptcy if we don't change our evil ways, and since they mainly live off us, they'll be right behind us in the soup line. Except, there won't be one.
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It preserves the stability of the existing ethnic mix, at least for the time being.\n\nMore could be said, but to what purpose?  If you think about it, this is really an advantage for all existing people there.\n\nIt has been merciless to refugees en route from Afghanistan and other places, but the reality is accepting these would invite an endless stream.\n\nAustralia actually has limited habitable space, water and many other limited resources.  It is already strained in many ways.\n\nI hope you can think of what I have left out.  Problems are not solved by exporting them to new places, thus far relatively untarnished.\n\nEspecially when the list of difficulties is already long enough.
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this could help\nhttp://www.afc.gov.au/gtp/wnmnetusers.html
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Actually, doggdoc, I'd move to Canada. (They protect anyone in the country from being forcefully brought back out, FYI.) I don't call it fleeing, I call it supporting my rights.
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It depends.  If the displaced residents of NO have established new permenant resisdence in the new state and have no plans in returning to NO, then the answer is "no."\nHowever, if they are temp residents in their new city/state have intentions in returning then "yes."  As long as we set a reasonable time frame for the displacement, kind of like absentee voting.
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ONLY?  \n\nPerhaps you should come to Australia and visit Woolloomooloo.
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Australia deserves it. Kuddos.
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listen dude, Kuwait has the strongest curency in the world, it may be a bit hard for u to accept, but if it wasn't for that reason and becoz 1 KD makes a lot for most of poor people who come to kuwait for work, I can dare and say that maybe most of the ppl here would be leaving it. I lived most of my life here. mad dad even spent his whole life here, and what did he gain after 50 Years being here ? he's a 70 years old man and he has to run here and there and see 10 ppl to renew his residency every year or let's say for maximum period of 2 years ! \n-\nI love this country even more than my homeland and in fact this is my homeland now. but what if I goto the Police-Station if I had a problem with a kuwaity person ? Would they treat me as a normal human being and equal with any other human being in this country? sorry , but hell no !\n- \neven kuwaities themselves, if two kuwaity kicked each other's ass, in the police station they'll look for their roots as some families are above other families and if so on...\n-\nIf u read local newspapers, there wont be a week without seeing 3-4 cases of an indenosian or srilankan servents commiting suicide, and the Ironic reason they use as clishes to explain it is " an indenosian maid killed herself becoz of her husband's bike flat wheel back home in indonesia!!!!" \n- \nI love my country Kuwait and I wish all the best for it, but these human situations better be solved. coz it's giving a very bad and wrong image of this place worldwide.\n\nPeace :)
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The Indonesian government and the parliament consider this anti-pornography and pornoaction law is a manifestation from the culture of Eastern Nations. As an "eastern", Indonesia should preserve the decorous behavior from "Bad" behavior such as pornographies and pornoactions.\n\nIts look like "on the horns of a dilemma", one side we should preserve the heritages of our anchestors, but in another side the era of globalization has come, bundled with its "Freedom" styles.\n\nI think we should harmonized this two conditions wisely, Faster, Better.\n\nThanks....and Be Wise....
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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.