poll on asylum seekers -- urgent!
Friday, 28 May 2010 08:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miriam_eThe Age newspaper is conducting a poll:
Do you agree with Tony Abbott's tougher stance on asylum seekers?
http://www.theage.com.au/polls/abbott-on-asylum-seekers/20100527-wh7z.html
You only have tonight to respond, and then it closes.
Do you agree with Tony Abbott's tougher stance on asylum seekers?
http://www.theage.com.au/polls/abbott-on-asylum-seekers/20100527-wh7z.html
You only have tonight to respond, and then it closes.
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Date: 2010-05-31 01:31 am (UTC)I am one of Miriam's friends but sadly do not have a LiveJournal account, so please excuse the anonimity of this response. (She knows who I am).
With due respect, I do not believe that Tony Abbott's stance on refugees and asylum seekers is a giggling matter. Do you think that the Holocaust was amusing? Of course not, and most of our international humanitarian laws (including the 1951 Refugee Convention, to which Australia is a state party) were a response to that mass obscenity, and an attempt to ensure that it never repeats on any scale of numbers.
Are you aware of this?:
http://www.sievxmemorial.com/
This may not have the quanititative scope of the Holocaust, but in my opinion, allowing the death of just ONE person (even if by neglect) is an obscenity. I trust that you agree.