You have to love this quote from the Minister of Immigration, Amanda Vanstone on the Government’s proposed Indonesia-appeasing asylum seeker legislation. The legislation calls to process all applicants offshore after which, if found to be refugees, they are to be settled in a third country:
The only change in relation to this legislation is that the people who, by luck of strong winds or better planning, happen to arrive on the mainland will be treated in the same way as those who land at an island just one kilometre off our northern coast.
Who ever said that the Government wasn’t fair?
Update: GetUp have a petition up calling for the legislation to be rejected, they’re aiming for 75,000 signatures, of which they have about 59,000. So if you want to sign it it’s here.
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