Ukraine – a colossal blunder by NATO
1 day ago
Friday, April 4, 2008
sad face
Well it has been quite some time, so perhaps it's about time...
I just read that Australian refugee policy is being described as 'inhumane' at a UN meeting in Darwin, and that we are going to have to cop environmental refugees fair on the chin.
I would have thought that both of these things were bleedingly obvious, but it is good to see someone vocalise this, given that it has been a non-issue for about 5 years now. Remember the Woomera and Baxter protests? I never went personally, but it made for good indymedia (another dead cause).
So now we have this wonderful new government, which does seem to have a genuine reform agenda, do you think we'll see profound change on these issues? Given that we can't get enough immigrants in on 457s to scrub our West Australian toilets, maybe we'll see another bout of populate or perish. We need Mexicans.
I know it has been said before but it would be fitting that the pacific island nations that are being submerged as a result of our disproportionate carbon stink and belch should have some right to asylum on our big, empty and at the time of writing, still-dry island.
I just went back to the ABC News Online page to link to the article and it's gone. How strange.
Maybe Rudd et al will be able to spin this as a humanitarian move, when really they're adding more human grist to the labour market mill that is our minerals and resources economy. Smart.
we all win in the end
I just read that Australian refugee policy is being described as 'inhumane' at a UN meeting in Darwin, and that we are going to have to cop environmental refugees fair on the chin.
I would have thought that both of these things were bleedingly obvious, but it is good to see someone vocalise this, given that it has been a non-issue for about 5 years now. Remember the Woomera and Baxter protests? I never went personally, but it made for good indymedia (another dead cause).
So now we have this wonderful new government, which does seem to have a genuine reform agenda, do you think we'll see profound change on these issues? Given that we can't get enough immigrants in on 457s to scrub our West Australian toilets, maybe we'll see another bout of populate or perish. We need Mexicans.
I know it has been said before but it would be fitting that the pacific island nations that are being submerged as a result of our disproportionate carbon stink and belch should have some right to asylum on our big, empty and at the time of writing, still-dry island.
I just went back to the ABC News Online page to link to the article and it's gone. How strange.
Maybe Rudd et al will be able to spin this as a humanitarian move, when really they're adding more human grist to the labour market mill that is our minerals and resources economy. Smart.
we all win in the end
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