No no, don't be silly. According to right wing australians asylum seekers aren't afforded the same rights as every other person. They're scum and aren't even protected by the Geneva convention.

I'm of the opinion that we should deport and revoke the citizenship of anyone who refers to an asylum seeker as an "illegal immigrant" and use the proceeds of the sale of their assets to provide assistance to people who have been granted asylum.

On the subject of this particular case, it is obvious that if an asylum seeker committed this crime they will fail to be granted asylum. Being sympathetic to the plight of oppressed people does not mean we accept everyone that claims to be so. There is a real feeling of "terrorist until proven otherwise" in our society and it is sickening.

Basic human rights should not be eschewed to appease fear-mongers. Ramshackle lean-tos on remote islands wont stem the flow of asylum seekers, and whilst there is demand people smugglers will supply. The asylum seeking process needs to be safer and more accessible to limit the amount organised crime can profit from it. And, really, it is the people smugglers that are the real issue. They are the ones putting countless lives at risk for profit.

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Why does everyone always focus on Asylum Seeker's in regards to immigration/population growth? It completely ignores every important issue, infrastructure in our cities, regional development, resource consumption (currently out water consumption is totally unsustainable, especially with additional population growth)? It's all just a bloody scapegoat discussion because no one wants to discuss the difficult things.

Australia citizenship should not be a given. As a desperate person looking for a better life being a rapist is not a good start.

This person should have a choice, be sent back to wherever or go to an Australian jail if found guilty.

I support asylum seekers as long as they are not a permanent drain on the system. Living here is not and should not be a holiday. These people should be sent to our struggling regional areas to provide manual labor if they lack other useful skills. They should become tax payers so that they can pay tax for the infrastructure they require to inject some life into our struggling construction industry.

Having carried out work for an apartment unit for asylum seekers whilst the existing one operates I can tell you these people sit in the city and do nothing. Education, pffft.... what education? These people did nothing but watch us for 10 hours while we drilled holes. They could be doing many tasks which would ease the burden on the tax-payer which currently drains funds necessary for our lacking infrastructure and regional logistics.

From one extreme to the other. Well done #-o

And therefore locked.

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