*Not every persons statement reflects their own personal beliefs.*
For the Positive: Grace
Australia is a big, wide, glorious piece of land why shouldn’t we share it with other people? Although most asylum seekers come illegally I don’t blame them for wanting to leave their own dangerous, death trap of a country, which they have to call home and come to Australia, which is HUGE.
This being said, most Australians think the country is getting crowded but that’s really just the main cities like Melbourne and Sydney. There are parts of Australia which aren’t even inhabited because they are thought to be “unsuitable conditions” I’m sure asylum seekers would think that safe land is a lot better then the lands of shooting and death which they come from.
I would believe that asylum seekers don’t want to flee their countries, because their friends and family are there! But the harsh conditions they are living in leave them with no other option than to seek refuge in countries like Australia and the UK. When the government wants to send them back to those horrific countries don’t they feel slightly ashamed? I agree that it’s not fair for those people who want to live and work in Australia and have to complete form after form to be allowed in the country, where as illegal immigrants just waltz through the back door, but under their circumstances where their lives are in danger I don’t really blame them at all. It’s not like Australia ISN’T 7.6 MILLION square kilometers or anything, SHARE THE CHUNK OF SOIL around!
I mean SERIOUSLY most of the asylum seekers come from Afghanistan and Iraq where there are major wars going on, why can’t Australia just do a little something and care for some of the innocent people threatened by their own country? We have a large beautiful land. SHARING IS CARING.
For the Negative: Lauren
This being said, most Australians think the country is getting crowded but that’s really just the main cities like Melbourne and Sydney. There are parts of Australia which aren’t even inhabited because they are thought to be “unsuitable conditions” I’m sure asylum seekers would think that safe land is a lot better then the lands of shooting and death which they come from.
I would believe that asylum seekers don’t want to flee their countries, because their friends and family are there! But the harsh conditions they are living in leave them with no other option than to seek refuge in countries like Australia and the UK. When the government wants to send them back to those horrific countries don’t they feel slightly ashamed? I agree that it’s not fair for those people who want to live and work in Australia and have to complete form after form to be allowed in the country, where as illegal immigrants just waltz through the back door, but under their circumstances where their lives are in danger I don’t really blame them at all. It’s not like Australia ISN’T 7.6 MILLION square kilometers or anything, SHARE THE CHUNK OF SOIL around!
I mean SERIOUSLY most of the asylum seekers come from Afghanistan and Iraq where there are major wars going on, why can’t Australia just do a little something and care for some of the innocent people threatened by their own country? We have a large beautiful land. SHARING IS CARING.
For the Negative: Lauren
The asylum seeker debate has gone on for what seems like forever. I am not going to claim to know all that much about it... except that there seems to be an inherent fear among Australian’s regarding “boat people”. I suppose that that fear comes from the societal and generational fear that unites people worldwide. The fear of the unknown. I myself always feel uncertain about the unexpected and I think that is why some politicians and general citizens fear asylum seekers.
They fear what, or in this case, whom, they don’t know. Whether that fear is merited is a completely different debate. Personally, I don’t fear that asylum seekers are going to take all our jobs, because in Australia, to get a job you usually require qualifications that asylum seekers don’t have. I don’t think sending asylum seekers to Malaysia as a ‘solution’ is going to fix anything. And I don’t think being fearful of these so called “boat people” is going to do anything positive. And I don’t think we should be treating any people inhumanely.
What I do have to query is the use of rules and regulations. Australia prides itself on a legal system and a law that, quite within reason, is expected to be followed. All Australian citizens and residents are expected to abide by the law. All travellers to our country are expected to also succumb to our law, which includes the use of a passport and Visa. We’ve all seen snippets of the (terrible) Border Security programs on TV about people who don’t do this and the consequences they suffer. So with asylum seekers, where does law come into place? If we were to let all asylum seekers into Australia without citizenship, that would be illegal. And if the government is partaking in illegal activity doesn’t that just tell the rest of Australia that law doesn’t matter?
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