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

[nero_bolt]

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...

[the_great_she_elephant]

OMG! Karen - I've just had a lightbulb moment.

Inedible carnivores?

Terminal facility?

CROCODILE WRESTLING - in our very own, purpose built Coliseum.

I can see it now - why iIt would be even more popular than public executions.And think of the money it would bring in.

And who could possibly be more  enTITLED to sit in the place of honour and give the thumbs up or thumbs down than CS's very own ..........

[downeyas]

After living in Darwin for 26 years I can tell you that it's already a terminal facility 

[just_me_karen]

Where did you get your information from?

It's all wrong.

Asylum seekers can only get legal advice if they provide a written request. They're not given access to names and emails are often blocked.

How exactly does a person locked behind razor wire in a concentration camp on an isolated island, without access to contact details, get legal help?

How exactly does a lawyer offer their pro bono services if they're not able to access names?

One good thing is there are SOME lawyers who offer their services to these vulnerable people for free. Some have a heart and know the law.

[just_me_karen]

And dingoes, she ele 😄

Gina and Rupert could make a zillion if they live telecast the carnage!

Win win outcome.

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@just_me_karen wrote:
And dingoes, she ele 😄

Gina and Rupert could make a zillion if they live telecast the carnage!

Win win outcome.

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Ooh, yes - I forgot about the dingoes.

Andrew Bolt and Alan Jones could do the commentary.

[*crikey*mate*]

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@just_me_karen wrote:
Where did you get your information from? The OP

It's all wrong. Which part

Asylum seekers can only get legal advice if they provide a written request. They're not given access to names and emails are often blocked. Seems fair, pretty much what everyone else has to do.

How exactly does a person locked behind razor wire in a concentration camp on an isolated island, without access to contact details, get legal help? I think that you are confusing boat people with the broader term assylum seekers

How exactly does a lawyer offer their pro bono services if they're not able to access names? How are they doing it now? We did read the same OP, didn't we?

One good thing is there are SOME lawyers who offer their services to these vulnerable people for free. Some have a heart and know the law. See, everything really is ok with the world, eh?

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[colic2bullsgirlore]

The government does not even want asylum seekers to have pro bono representation it would seem

No reports most mainstream media yet ....but I have it on good authority that.......

83 asylum seekers who are due to attend court on April 4 over personal data breaches and are being presently held at

Villawood detention centre  are being moved to Leonora Dtenteion centre in Leonora Western Australia the day before

the court case.

Their pro bono lawyers have lodged an appeal stating that it would be impossible to represent them or receive

instruction from them from Leonora.

The Sydney based legal representatives have been advised that the only possible phone contact that they will have is

through a single fixed landline and only through the detention centre's manager.

Immigration department officials have stated that

" the move was required as they are undertaking renovations at Villawood.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/19/first-asylum-seekers-in-court-over-release-of-their-per...

[boris1gary]

"every thing really is ok with the world" - not for asylum seekers, regardless of the simplistic responses to another cruel act of this government - eh

But international standards written by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) say the right to legal advice during the claims process is an “essential safeguard”.

“Asylum seekers are often unable to articulate the elements relevant to an asylum claim without the assistance of a qualified counsellor because they are not familiar with the precise grounds for the recognition of refugee status and the legal system of a foreign country,” the UNHCR says.

But Rachel Ball, director of advocacy and campaigns at the Human Rights Law Centre in Melbourne, told Guardian Australia the department had already refused an offer to provide asylum seekers with a list of free legal services.

“There is a limited number of services that can provide pro bono assistance and they can’t possibly meet the demand. This is not a case where providers are competing with each other for lucrative business; they’re providing the services for free,” she said.

“Access to justice is a fundamental human right – there’s been a longstanding commitment from successive governments to provide legal assistance to asylum seekers in recognition of this right and that legal assistance assures an effective refugee status determination process,” she said.

[just_me_karen]

Which part? All of it.

One thing I learned at uni was the ability to critically assess a source of information, such as checking if there are vested interests or possible bias. The Australian fails that test.

So I'll type it more clearly

- women, men and children are locked up behind razor wire on an isolated island, with 10 mins of monitored Internet access a day (and often none)

- Australian and PNG lawyers (they're the ones with good hearts) are not permitted access to the concentration camp unless a written request is received from an asylum (one S) seeker

- the lawyers' names are not given to the asylum seekers, making it impossible for them to make the written request

-the asylum seekers' names are not given to the lawyers, making it impossible for them to invite the written requests

All but the 1.5% would realise this is an appalling and corrupt situation.

But all is not lost, as the lawyers with hearts are currently setting up a single website to enable asylum seekers to make the written request within their allotted 10 minutes.