True re media Banjo. My daughter is in good handshis is also an exercise because I want to know what Centrelink has put in place for those returning for family emergencies. How do they handle our residency and portability. What is the time limit allowed? How long will it take for them to act upon a request. As for dole bludgers!!! The link I sent you was about the OAP rates: An Australian Pensioner receives weekly allowance of $353 + spouse allowance $56. Total Yearly benefit $16,068. An illegal immigrant/refugee living in Australia receives: weekly allowance $472.50 Spouse weekly $472.50 Hardship allowance $145 Total yearly allowance $56,680.00 Makes me burn! This government makes me feel I have been jailed and now hanging about twiddling my thumbs waiting for parole. Another concern is how long is it going to take to process our unlimited portability and residency? ICL don't know and they should know so has anyone out there gleaned any facts.........
That story is just a chain email circulated by racists Lynne, you may want to question their motives when you consider how much money they spend on getting their message out.
www.refugeecouncil.org.au/current/myths.htmlI really don't want that type of issue discussed here anyway, it can only lead to ill feeling among members and we need to be united in our common cause, not divided on other issues.
An excellent response, Banjo. A truly excellent response.
That website should be compulsory reading for every Australian.
As well as this website:
www.boat-people.org/?page_id=148Just the simple facts: that is all that people need to stop this nonsense.
95% of asylum seekers come by aeroplane.
Australia currently accepts and welcomes about 300,000 legal immigrants each year, a hundred times the number of 'boat people'.
And this immigration program has the broad support of the Australian people.
Among those 300,000 legal immigrants who are warmly welcomed into Australia each year are more than 10,000 black Africans. And vibrant, dynamic, colourful communities of African-Australians have already been established in such places as Newtown, Enmore and Blacktown in Sydney, and in Footscray in Melbourne.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_AustralianJust the simple facts, is what people need to 'wake up and smell the coffee'.
Australia is a nation of just 23 million people. Less than 200 kilometres off Australia's north coast begin the first islands of South East Asia, where 620 million people live. And not much further away are China, with 1340 million, and India, with 1220 million.
And yet in the whole of Northern Australia, from Broome to Cairns, there live less than one million people. And yet the climate is ideal for growing rice; in fact the climate is virtually identical to Thailand (68 million people, 150 centimetres of rain per year in Bangkok) and Vietnam (92 million people, 193 centimetres of rain in Saigon); compare this with Darwin (173 centimetres of rain, less than one million people in the whole of northern Australia).
This is a completely ridiculous and unsustainable situation: nature abhors a vacuum (
Spinoza), and history simply will not tolerate a vacuum.
Just look at the history of England, our Mother Country. Beginning thousands of years ago were successive invasion-waves of early humans and Celts. Then in 43 AD the Romans invaded England, and many of their ancient ruins and place names can still be seen today. Then from 400 to 600 AD the Germanic Anglo-Saxons invaded England and formed the basis of the English language. Then in the 800s, the Vikings invaded England and established the Danelaw. Then in 1066, the French-speaking Normans invaded England, and contributed thousands of French words to the English language. In 1588 AD, the Spanish Armada came to invade England, but they were turned back by Queen Elizabeth, it was a close shave, we could all be speaking Spanish. In 1940, Hitler was on the verge of invading England, but decided against it.
Now just look at this:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_Japanese_invasion_of_Australia_during_World_War_IIThey came in 1942, bombed many towns in northern Australia, and who knows, just imagine if the Japs had obtained nuclear weapons from Hitler: we could all be speaking Japanese.
They came in 1942, and they
will be back, maybe in 2042, maybe earlier.
What on earth are we going to do about this?
My suggestion is that people should simply take note of the facts, 'wake up and smell the coffee' and take a cold shower (preferably with a sprightly young Asian lass or lad) and wake up to themselves.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethic_of_reciprocityI should point out that I am a white Anglo-Saxon Australian born in Australia to Australian parents, in case anyone was wondering.