bryan1
Well-Known Member
G'day Guys,
On the job i have just finished I got to have a good talk to a guy that lived in the unit behind the job job I was doing. By the guy's accent I thought it was eastern European but in fact he came from Iran.
This morning he knocked on the door and asked me to come look at the load he had on a rental ute and asked the best way to tie it down. I asked him to get all the ropes he had and I would do it as the cops here will pick anything and charge you with incorrect loading.
As I was tieing the load down he told me his story........
6 years ago they came on a boat husband,wife, 3 young kids and motherinlaw, they spent 4 years in detention and 2 years ago they were released into society. But no medicare or unemployment benefits and every job the guy started as soon as they found out he was sacked. He said it has now come to a point where the oppressed country we came from has better life conditions than Australia.
So where our govt and particularly the opposition are saying 'STOP THE BOATS' really what they are doing is oppressing these people so bad the countries they were fleeing from seem a better place.
So is this good govt policy or a crime against humanity and should the pollies that make policies be tried in the Hague for crimes against humanity.
Until I heard this poor families story little did I know just how badly done by they were and if it wasn't for the Iranian community coming to their aid this family would of been in dire straights.
Whats the govt should be saying is try to come here and WE WILL OPPRESS YOU worse than the country you came from and make you want to go back.
Yet here I thought we lived in a democracy but in reality all isn't what it seems.....
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OK I have opened a can of worms.... politics.......
Lets have good discussion about it (TVTech let your hair down) and keep the thread civil
I will recommend if ANY member wants to flout the guidelines of a good discussion be forced to have a short holiday as too many threads of a similar nature have had to be locked and in cases by the OP who started the thread.
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Regards Bryan
On the job i have just finished I got to have a good talk to a guy that lived in the unit behind the job job I was doing. By the guy's accent I thought it was eastern European but in fact he came from Iran.
This morning he knocked on the door and asked me to come look at the load he had on a rental ute and asked the best way to tie it down. I asked him to get all the ropes he had and I would do it as the cops here will pick anything and charge you with incorrect loading.
As I was tieing the load down he told me his story........
6 years ago they came on a boat husband,wife, 3 young kids and motherinlaw, they spent 4 years in detention and 2 years ago they were released into society. But no medicare or unemployment benefits and every job the guy started as soon as they found out he was sacked. He said it has now come to a point where the oppressed country we came from has better life conditions than Australia.
So where our govt and particularly the opposition are saying 'STOP THE BOATS' really what they are doing is oppressing these people so bad the countries they were fleeing from seem a better place.
So is this good govt policy or a crime against humanity and should the pollies that make policies be tried in the Hague for crimes against humanity.
Until I heard this poor families story little did I know just how badly done by they were and if it wasn't for the Iranian community coming to their aid this family would of been in dire straights.
Whats the govt should be saying is try to come here and WE WILL OPPRESS YOU worse than the country you came from and make you want to go back.
Yet here I thought we lived in a democracy but in reality all isn't what it seems.....
......................................................................................................................................................
OK I have opened a can of worms.... politics.......
Lets have good discussion about it (TVTech let your hair down) and keep the thread civil
I will recommend if ANY member wants to flout the guidelines of a good discussion be forced to have a short holiday as too many threads of a similar nature have had to be locked and in cases by the OP who started the thread.
.....................................................................................................................................................
Regards Bryan