Asylum seeker handouts scrapped: Australian taxpayers to save $25 million a Year

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Long over due and the only people that will be crying is the lawyers that were bleeding the system  and the bleeding heart lefties..

Why should our tax  money pay for illegals with no papers to rort the system 

Well done Scott Morrision

TAXPAYERS will save $25 million a year after the Abbott government today scraps free immigration assistance to ­asylum seekers.

Immigration Minister Scott Morrison last night said Australia’s protection obligations did not extend to providing free immigration help to those who arrived in Australia ­illegally.

He said, as promised before the election, that from today, people who arrived illegally by boat or air would no longer be helped through the Immigration Advice and Application Assistance Scheme.

But he said the withdrawal of the taxpayer help would not prevent people receiving legal assistance, saying those who wished to provide immigration advice and application assistance pro bono were free to do so.

The government continues to roll out its Operation ­Sovereign Borders suite of policies after notching at the weekend 100 days without a successful people smuggling venture making it to Australia. The government expects the withdrawal of the free assistance will save the budget $100 million over four years

If people choose to violate how Australia chooses to run our refugee and humanitarian program, they should not presume upon the support and assistance that is provided to those who seek to come the right way, and they should certainly not receive additional assistance, as they did under the previous government,’’ Mr Morrison said.

‘‘Services that have commenced will be ­completed, but the IAAAS will not continue for any additional part of the process that would incur an additional fee

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/asylum-seeker-handouts-scrapped-australian-taxpayers-to-save-25...

[icyfroth]

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@izabsmiling wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@bluecat*dancing wrote:

lol. how could that be construed as being racist?

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you need to ask?

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is being blonde specific to a race of people  Icy ?

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Obviously it's specific to the white race, Iza.

If you mean all sorts of people can colour their hair blonde, yes that's true, but then they're not truly blonde are they?

Ergo the blonde stereotype can't be applied.

Remember Dolly Parton's famous quote?: "I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde."

That's a backhander to blondes if there ever was one.

I still like her though 🙂

[izabsmiling]

advocating cruelty to Asylum seekers to punish people smugglers 

is akin to advocting beating children who have been a victim of a pedophile imho

[izabsmiling]

we need to hold on to our own Humanity 

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children don't choose to be victims of pedophilia, people choose to get on the boats in Indonesia and pay people smugglers and when met with success, this encourages others to also engage in and support people smuggling.

Somewhere, people smuggling has to be stopped.

It is no diofferent to stopping everyone from owning guns when we are only trying to prevent those who use them for the wrong purposes to have them,

To stop access of some, access for all has to be implemented,

It's the Mill's principle - the greatest good for the greatest number of people.

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Icyfroth wrote : Obviously it's specific to the white race, Iza.

If you mean all sorts of people can colour their hair blonde, yes that's true, but then they're not truly blonde are they?

someone can be an Indigenous Australian and have blonde hair 

they can have pale skin too 

[izabsmiling]

people don't choose to have to flee their own Country for safety either Diamond Halo .

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They do not need to flee indonesia for safety, either, and as thios is where the people smugglers largely operate from......

[izabsmiling]

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@just_me_karen wrote:
DH, as long as there are wars, economic failures, natural disasters, evil governments and bigotry, the world will have asylum seekers. We are a rich country and the intolerance displayed by Morisson's supporters is internationally shameful.

There are signs on the fences at manus that remind guards to always carry their knives. The knives are to cut down asylum seekers who hang themselves.

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I agree.

there was another hanging recently ?

and forced  wage cuts to Mental Health workers ?

sounds like we provide the needy with our own version of Hell on Earth .

Can't be easy on the Mental Health staff either 

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@diamond-halo wrote:

They do not need to flee indonesia for safety, either, and as thios is where the people smugglers largely operate from......

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I have obviously done more reading on this than you,