Should They Be Deported?

[lyhargr_0]

www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/tamil-asylum-seeker-children-constantly-crying-on-christmas-island-2...

My head says yes but my heart says no

[martinw-48]

It's not just the farmers that need help in a drought.
No one ever recognises their employees.
They are just forgotten.
Maybe those in the agricultural industry that are reaping huge profits should be made morr accountable for their greed.
If the farmers that have hay and grain that are making an absolute fortune on their commodities actually cared about more than money things wouldn't be so hard on those buying it.
I know demand drives up prices but how disgusting is it to make huge profits out of others misery

[myoclon1cjerk]

"So you believe that anyone who decides they want to come an live in Au, should just be allowed to walk right in and stay?"

Just like the British did.

[lyhargr_0]

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@myoclon1cjerk wrote:
"So you believe that anyone who decides they want to come an live in Au, should just be allowed to walk right in and stay?"

Just like the British did.

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Yep and that doesnt make it right   ..... Hopefully we have learned something is the past 200 odd years, perhaps not

[icyfroth]

The British convicts sent over here had no choice in the matter. They endured starvation and great hardship under colonial rule, to try and make a living out of a land they had no knowledge of.

Aborigines first helped, then fought back when they realised their traditional living was being threatened.

History is kind of repeating itself.

[lyhargr_0]

True, the convicts had no choice but those who brought them and also the free settlers who arrived were able to make a choice. I dont agree with what happened back then, but hopefully we have learned and moved on from then. 

At this point in time the are over 100,000 homeless folk in Au ( that figure is prob mush higher ), 100's of farmers are in real trouble, many people cant afford their food, electricity etc, rental housing is a crisis point, there is very little work around especially for blue collar workers etc., etc. Yet the bleeding hearts still think we should let every one who decides to come to Au to live, stay here.  It doesnt work that way, in that we need to look after our own people first BEFORE  we take in one more refugee.

[lyhargr_0]

Perhaps those who want us to allow anyone to come here needs to watch a few docos re farmers selling their breeding stock, dairy cattle being sent to slaughter, farmers walking off their land etc., all because they cant afford to keep going. Our dairy industry is in crisis, dairy farmers are walking away in droves, cause the price they receive for their milk is so low, they cant afford to keep going   ..... These probs need to be attended to and sorted out way before we worry about helping more refugees.

[martinw-48]

The dairy farmers actually are in trouble because of the milk companies dodgy practices.
The middle man once again makes all the money not the suppliers.
This was happening before the drought.
The drought has just made it worse because the feed is now mega expensive and the water.
It's farmers that are destroying farmers when it comes to feed prices.
The public are being scammed because ultimately the money isn't flowing to suppliers it's just going into the pocket of the middle man

[rogespeed]

How can tropical paradise Christmas Island be that bad compared with suburban living for the bottom 1/3 struggle class ?