A person who is held on Manus – at our expense, as taxpayers (thanks, Peter Dutton) – has written to me a couple of times setting out the hardship refugees on Manus are facing.
Bear in mind, the misery we inflict costs us, the taxpayers, $570,000 per refugee per year. And also bear in mind that New Zealand recently revived its offer to take 150 refugees per year from Manus and Nauru. Dutton made it clear that, although it is a matter for New Zealand and PNG/Nauru to consider, they should be aware of the trade implications! He might just as well have threatened reprisals directly.
This is the same Minister who claims to be a Christian, but he is inflicting misery on people who have not broken any law by trying to escape persecution.
This is the same Minister who dishonestly tells us he is concerned about people drowning at the hands of unscrupulous people-smugglers. He’s so concerned about them drowning that he punishes them if they don’t drown. So far, most of them have been held on Manus or Nauru for the past 4 years.
Peter Dutton is a dishonest hypocrite. He disfigures our nation.
Here is a snapshot of the misery inflicted on human beings by your government:
“Actually I don’t know how to start it because there has been a lot of issues since Australia government brought us in here.
We are all in a bad mental condition as we are here for such a long time and still hope for a better future.
PNG Authorities keep insulting us and use a lot of bad words when they talk to residents, for example, yesterday PNG ICSA and police brought some non refugees from Port moresby to hillside compound and tried to accomodate them and while they were doing their job they started saying that you are not a refugee and you should sleep in the rubbish bin and they said that we won’t have any good future and we should get the hell out of their country because we are non refugee.
You know we are so sick of living like that. When we were in pervious detention we were hoping that after this hell we may go to a nice and safe country but unfortunately they brought us to another camp by force and now they are making road , building new accomodation and they are hiring new security officers. This is really scary for us because we don’t know how long more they want to suffer us in here.
We know that there are a lot of Australians who are happy about what Australia is doing to us in here but please if you can spread my message to them that Australia is using their taxes for nothing in here they are just wasting money in our name and please tell them that we are trying for everything in here but not one thing and that’s coming to Australia.
Hope I didn’t make you upset but this is really true. This is current situation in our camp.”
Second message:
“About our current situation, we still do not know about our future as Australia put us in this whole shit situation and do not take any responsibility.
We don’t really know what is going on in here but what we know is PNG ICSA is deporting Bangladeshi people to their home country after 5 years which is unfair. For rest of us, we have not been told anything yet but spread the message between us that they want to bring refugees from Nuru to Manus which I believe they are bullying us.
Believe it or not, that take us as hostage in here.
There is something weird going on in here, for example PNG immigration do not provide any visa to Australian security officers to come here for work but not sure for tomorrow.
Another thing is they are slightly decreasing their services. Whatever we request in here they say NKW company is responsible then we talk to NKW staff and they say JDA company is responsible for that and at end they say Australia must look after you not us.
They are passing us to each other however they have contract with ABF and they have been paid a lot of money but these companies I told you do not provide us our necessary things. All of these companies I told you take advantage from our miserable situation.
Since the local take our this place they become so cranky and they are really rude to us. “
This repugnant treatment of those seeking asylum is reprehensible. It’s an appalling situation that should and could be rectified immediately with compassion and empathy…
The calculated cruelty to human beings by our godless politicians is a disease destroying the sanity and good health of the nation.Stop it!
I want them all to know that many Australians are horrified by what is being done in our name.
If Dutton and his cohorts are truly Christian in their belief systems there is no way that they could even remotely countenance this ongoing tragedy. It is time that right-thinking and decent people in Australia protest loudly at what is happening here. It is thanks to people like Julian, and other like-minded people, that these poor refugees (for that it what they are…..not illegal refugees or miscreants or the like) at least have a voice out there for them.
I despair of both major Australian political parties on this matter.
In particular, last week, the appalling pronouncement by Peter Dutton on ‘our need to offer safety to white South African farmers because of their plight’ was the absolute height of hypocrisy in the face the obvious and equal if not worse situations that have led to those on Maunus and Narau fleeing their homes.
In among my set of friends, there are many who are ashamed of our government’s stance on refugees. It has been said often but bears repeating, none of this is done in my name.
The electors in Peter Dutton’s electorate should be targeted to indeed not reelect the cruel man.
Coming from a place with so little transparency this quote comes to my mind. The light of lights looks on the motive, not the deed The shadow of shadows on the deed alone. The deed needs to get exposed!!
What use are words without action!!!!
Empathy quashed.
Love rejected
Corrupt Govt.
PCPLODdutton is surely the most reprehensible “christian” hypocrit to have snuck into Parlaiment.everything that comes out of mouth confirms that. Turnbull, who has no credibility because of the paranoid fear of losing his job,which he will anyway.if dutton ever were to be PM I am going to live in a democracy, say Vietnam
I am sick to my stomach how this rotten govt. is treating these people ,humans like us with the same needs.What I wonder does he labor part have the guts to bring them home??
By definition, anyone who travels through numerous safe countries in order to reach a country offering the highest standard of living is not a refugee.
The same phenomenon can be witnessed in Europe, where “refugees” travel through the poorer states to partake in Sweden’s generous welfare system.
$570,000 per detained “refugee” is a better investment of taxpayer funds than the alternative open borders scenario, which has no upper cost limit.
Sorry, but you are wrong: wrong in fact, wrong in law