@izabsmiling wrote:
EM, I am unhappy with the wider situation and attitude.
Unfortunately I feel that if these people and their childten had different faces,skin and religions.. more people in this Country would be willing to acknowledge that they are more than physical bodies and also more willing to look into what they have been and are going through.
Seems some have more compassion for our export Cattle than they do for other human beings and that recognising these humans as human isn't the in thing.
Are we returning children unassisted to some places as well?
Scott Morrison says mother and newborn could be sent back to Nauru
SCOTT MORRISON: All appropriate care is provided for people who are located in the offshore processing facility, she was brought to Australia to give birth to a child and she had other health complications that also necessitated her being brought to Australia for that purpose.
Now that is the process we follow, now if and when she is in a fit state to return to Nauru or Manus Island, and that will be assessed by doctors, then that's what will occur.
FELICITY OGILVIE: The Royal Australasian College of Physicians president-elect, Nicholas Talley, says there is a risk that the asylum seeker's children could die if they're sent offshore.
NICHOLAS TALLEY: Well malaria is a problem. Pregnant women of course - this woman's no longer pregnant, but pregnant women and also young children can't be given the medications that will help protect them from malaria and if they go to a high malaria environment then indeed they will be at risk.
And in fact the infant mortality is also an issue overall if you look at the infant mortality for example on Nauru, it's about seven times higher than in Australia. That's pretty significant.
FELICITY OGILVIE: The woman says that she's afraid that her infant or her young children might die because of the heat and food that's being served that's half cooked at times. Is that a possibility, could the children die?
NICHOLAS TALLEY: Certainly http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2013/s3887268.htm
Defence should also be wary of being forced into a position of having to defend deaths in detention, particularly of children. Officials in Immigration should be now giving frank and fearless advice because when the fan clogs up it will be them that Morrison seeks to blame for his transgressions.
Read more: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/comment/scott-morrisons-noshowandtell-on-asylum-seekers-is-already-s...
a) none of this has anything to do with the OP
b) none of this has anything to do with race, colour or religion or any other form of discrimination.
c) we are looking into "what they have been and what they are going through" that's the whole idea behind processing those who seek asylum!
d) This woman put her own children at risk of Malaria. She chose to come here knowing that she would be transferred to an offshore detention centre.
e) To our knowledge, she did not become pregnant by force, she became pregnant and gave birth twice in Malaysia where malaria is a huge consideration and then chose to come here to do it again. NO ONE FORCED her
f) preventative measures for the prevention of malaria can begin once a child is 5 kg.
g) the woman and family have arrived after spending at least 10 years in malaria prone regions, how have they avoided infection so far?
h) is it a possibility that her children could die? She gave birth to them whilst in Detention in a malarian prone region. She put them on a boat and risked their lives just for a chance that they may be accepted into Australia. And now the responsibility is being passed onto the Australian government? C'mon hey!
i) her children are being used as a tool and a weapon to circumvent established procedures and protocols, just as ashjoma suggested that other persons seeking assylum may do.
j) felicity Ogilvie is a journalist, it is her job to dramatize and sensationalize situations and take them out of context and proportion, she is hardly a credible authority on the topic.
k) just read that story in the last link and absorb the manipulation that is occurring and has occurred. Exactly as ashjoma said does and will happen.
Some people can go their whole lives and never really live for a single minute.
