Wednesday, 21 March 2007
Nauru and the offshore processing of asylum seekers
The incumbent Government should immediately dismantle the program and policy of off-shore processing of asylum seekers (no matter how they arrive to Australian territories), and every political party should make it a major area of policy to do so if they were to win office. The same should be done for a national apology to Indigenous Australians. As we battle the overseas shame of Guantanamo Bay detainees, we are still left with the morally bankrupt practices of shipping our problems to other nations and ignoring the damage and humiliation inflicted on the first people's of Australia.