Asylum Seekers Crash on Christmas Island

[drsmith]

This might be as regional as it gets.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...open-in-tasmania/story-fn59niix-1226033937113

 

[sails]

This might be as regional as it gets.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...open-in-tasmania/story-fn59niix-1226033937113

To the best of my knowledge Wilke hasn't complained before about detention centres, but perhaps it's getting a bit too personal with this one opening in Tasmania. It makes a difference when these things happen in your suburb or in a suburb close to your own home. Too easy for pollies to remain detached when it doesn't affect them personally, IMO.

Wonder if Bob Brown will invite his new neighbours over for a barbie...

 

[sinner]

To the best of my knowledge Wilke hasn't complained before about detention centres, but perhaps it's getting a bit too personal with this one opening in Tasmania. It makes a difference when these things happen in your suburb or in a suburb close to your own home. Too easy for pollies to remain detached when it doesn't affect them personally, IMO.

Wonder if Bob Brown will invite his new neighbours over for a barbie...

Did you even read the article and what he says in it? Your post is full of it dude.

“I have long opposed mandatory detention anywhere and this facility will be no different,” Mr Wilkie said in a statement.

“These are people who have knocked on Australia's door seeking asylum and it is wrong to cage them behind wire, whether it be in Pontville or Christmas Island.

“I'll be holding the Immigration Minister, Chris Bowen, to his commitment that this centre only be temporary.”

Mr Wilkie called for a more sophisticated solution that addressed problems in the source countries from which the asylum-seekers were fleeing, and in the transit countries through which they passed to come to Australia.

 

[sails]

Did you even read the article and what he says in it? Your post is full of it dude.

Glad you enjoyed my post...

He might have said he has long opposed mandatory detention anywhere, but he's been pretty quick to speak out quickly on this one. Did he make similar comments about the other detention centres in WA, SA and Darwin - and so promptly?

I don't feel like looking it up, but if he has been entirely consistent, then my apologies...

 

[sptrawler]

People waiting for access to Australia through the normal channels must be wondering if they wouldn't be better served by going to Bali on a holiday and catching a boat over.
If Wilke wants to do away with detention centres and mandatory detention maybe he could do away with the border protection system all together. We would save a fortune and have enough workers to go around in no time.

 

[Julia]

On "PM" (ABC Radio) this evening there was an item about the small town near Hobart where an upgrade of some existing facility is going to house 400 single male asylum seekers.

The Mayor of this metropolis got a little carried away with his sense of hospitality toward his potential guests and has suggested they could be taken on lovely bus trips to the local wildlife park where they could make friends with the various unsuspecting animals.

It seems his constituents were rather less than enthusiastic about such a proposition.

Let's hope that instead, the Mayor might consider taking some disadvantaged Australian citizens on such a pleasurable outing. Might give them some relief from their homeless, mentally ill misery.

 

[sptrawler]

I am sure my mum ,79 years old would love to have some of the money being spent on these illegal imigrants spent on improving her lot. Both her and my father payed rent to the government on accomadation in outback W.A that these people would not accept. Even myself in the early 80's had to pay $60 a week for an asbestos and tin house in Exmouth with nothing but ceiling fans. Now I am supposed to subsidise people. Give me a break. Now the Government is telling me I am selfish

 

[dutchie]

Interesting figures:

“On Budget Night, 105,000 Australians are homeless. There are positive commitments in this Budget to suggest this group of marginalised Australians have not been left out in the cold once again. However there is much work yet ahead to reduce this number.”
Media release from Homelessness Australia (after 2009-2010 Budget)

“The $130.5 million in Commonwealth funding in 2010/11 for new homelessness initiatives to be implemented under the National Partnership on Homelessness will contribute to reducing the personal and social costs of homelessness”, Homelessness Australia’s Chairperson, Narelle Clay said. (May 2010)


Extrapolation $130,500,000/105,000= $1250 per person per year


Tasmanian Project
(6 month project)

$15million – upgrade housing
Food, clothing etc for 400 (for 12 months) @ $50/person/day= 400x 365x $50 = $7.28 million*
Staff wages estimate 15@ $50,000 (for 12 months) = $750,000*

Total Cost = $23 million (approximate)

Extrapolation $23,000,000/400 = $57,500 per person per year

*adjusted to annual figures for comparison

 

[Julia]

Dutchie, your calculation miserably sums up the priorities of this pathetic government.