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"The whole refugee thing is a mess". Yep you could certainly call razor wired detention centres in some of the most hostile terrain on earth, a mess of a solution. That whole Tampa situation in 2001 made me sick. The government lying about refugees throwing their children overboard in an attempt to make them appear inhuman to the Australian public. What about that man who had been in an aus detention centre for 2 years whose wife was killed in the Bali bombing - their 2 young children (ages 3 & 7) were stranded alone in Bali and the Aus govt wouldn't give them visas to visit their father.
"all of these issues have only come about in the past two years." Australia has a long history to deal with. Some issues that come to mind are Aborigines, refugees and immigrants, Indonesia, East Timor, US and British foreign policies and Australia's role within them, to name but a few. Racism within Australia has been part of the political makeup from the beginning.
"you ask any man living here, wether he be asian, european, african Middle eastern, ask him how he likes australia and he will tell you it is a fair country and a prosperous one."
Maybe you should ask an Aborigine.
I'm not hating on Australia - I am very proud to be Australian, but I took off my rose tinted glasses a long time ago. These issues need to be dealt with before our country can truly be called a "fair" one.