Why Australia’s Deportation policy is an abomination
Jacinda visited our arsehole cousins across the ditch and all she got was this T-shirt…
…Malcolm Turnbull has defended his offensive deportation bullshit by describing it as fair and just…
“There is a right of appeal which a number of the deportees take up …we were both advised earlier today that just under 40 percent of those appeals are successful, so the process is in accordance with Australian law, and the process is a fair and just one.”
…what a load of crap.
There are 3 reasons this deportation policy is obscene.
The first is that these NZ ‘citizens’ are citizens in name only. The criminals Australia are deporting have lived the majority of their lives in Australia. Their crimes are a product of Australian society, not NZ society. Australia is deporting their societal failures to us, that’s not fair or just, these men are products of Australia not NZ. Some of those caught up aren’t even bloody criminals, they’ve just failed some incredibly subjective ‘character test‘.
The second reason this deportation policy is obscene is because it’s pure domestic bigotry. This policy exists because it plays to base Australian xenophobia and a deep seated anti-Kiwi resentment. We need to be brave enough to call it for what it is, racism.
The third reason this deportation policy is obscene is probably the worst one.
Australia were spooked into believing that they were about to be flooded with migrants and so built their horrible mass detention camps as their ‘Pacific Solution’. Problem was the tsunami of migrants didn’t happen, but the infrastructure for the detention camps had already been spent, so to justify their continued cost Australian politicians sated domestic xenophobia by deporting non-citizens to the Pacific Detention camps. The logic was that they are already spending the money on the detention camps, so they may as well find reasons to fill it.
It’s ugly beyond belief.
The irony of a nation founded by criminals deporting criminals shouldn’t be lost on anyone and it’s beyond time that NZ started calling Australia out for this spiteful policy.
This has become hate on an industrial level.
I lived several years in Australia, and never encountered “deep-seated anti-Kiwi resentment”. Rather, a complete and friendly acceptance.
But it is true that Aussies are unrestrained and uncharitable in giving their opinions on people like the so-called laughing one-punch Kiwi, with the public response leading to his likely deporting back to NZ. Difficult to be critical of that one, although certainly not someone we’d want to welcome back here.
Yes ,… some balance here regarding the “deep-seated anti-Kiwi resentment” comments TOM GARDNER . Thank you. However , what Mr Bradbury is saying is also correct with the three points he has raised.
As Kiwis get treated abysmally in Australia regards voting, citizenship , study grants , welfare if needed , – and on top of this deportation issue when many of these people are in fact , actually Australians . Many were born there and many more taken there as small children. But Australia uses this trivial technicality of exceptionalism to base a whole raft of exclusive legislation on.
And the results are pretty grim not only for its victims , – but also with this country.
One gang member stated ‘ He didn’t want to be here , but he has no choice’… that he gave Australia 24 years ,- basically saying he was an Australian , not a New Zealander.
Such a shame the idiot right wing politicians of Australia couldn’t use their initiatives and convert those detention centers into money earning tourist camps instead… at least then they wouldn’t have to save face and forever be known as infamous…