Comments on: Whatever the answer is, it isn’t Temporary Protection Visas http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2009/04/21/whatever-the-answer-is-it-isn%e2%80%99t-temporary-protection-visas/ The world of politics, policy and public life Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:42:30 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Lauren http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2009/04/21/whatever-the-answer-is-it-isn%e2%80%99t-temporary-protection-visas/#comment-965 Lauren Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:13:23 +0000 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/bartlett/?p=472#comment-965 Hi Andrew, I very much support your view, • Asylum seekers do not try to sneak into the country undetected, they announce themselves on arrival to ask for protection, so they do not ‘threaten our borders’ in any meaningful sense of the term. I think that everyone needs to remind themselves that Asylum seekers are actual people like us, which have obvious threat to their lives; otherwise they wouldn’t be seeking protection from Australia. I think people sit comfortably in Australia, no realising that there are so many people out there that don’t have the luxury of what we have day to day. Bringing back a policy that obvious did more harm than good, is a step back in the right direction. Why bring back a policy that enforces the inability to reunite Asylum Seekers and Refugees with their family, uncertainty of their future status and the potential threat of being deported to a country in which their safety is at risk (http://www.multiculturalaustralia.edu.au/hotwords/unpack/Temporary.protection.visa) A Subliminal message to refugees was, as submitted to the Labor Federal Caucus Social Policy Committee, at a Perth hearing during August 2006: "...all right, we admit you're a refugee for now, but if you can't stand the immense pain of your wife and children living away from you on the other side of the world, you can bugger off, because you will loose your visa if you dare to leave our country to remind yourself of your wife or children - no exceptions, even if they are all dying, or if your wife becomes interested in another man, because you abandoned them and came to Australia and no matter whether your children may think that you have abandoned them or grow up to not even recognise you if you would meet them somewhere on this planet in the future." (http://www.safecom.org.au/end-of-tpvs.htm) This is a horrible message, it portrays Australia to be cold, ruthless and unkind toward people in honest need of protection. To bring back this policy would be inhumane and damaging not only to the all the Asylum Seekers and Refugees but to the way people view Australia. Hi Andrew,
I very much support your view,

• Asylum seekers do not try to sneak into the country undetected, they announce themselves on arrival to ask for protection, so they do not ‘threaten our borders’ in any meaningful sense of the term.

I think that everyone needs to remind themselves that Asylum seekers are actual people like us, which have obvious threat to their lives; otherwise they wouldn’t be seeking protection from Australia. I think people sit comfortably in Australia, no realising that there are so many people out there that don’t have the luxury of what we have day to day.

Bringing back a policy that obvious did more harm than good, is a step back in the right direction. Why bring back a policy that enforces the inability to reunite Asylum Seekers and Refugees with their family, uncertainty of their future status and the potential threat of being deported to a country in which their safety is at risk (http://www.multiculturalaustralia.edu.au/hotwords/unpack/Temporary.protection.visa)

A Subliminal message to refugees was, as submitted to the Labor Federal Caucus Social Policy Committee, at a Perth hearing during August 2006:

“…all right, we admit you’re a refugee for now, but if you can’t stand the immense pain of your wife and children living away from you on the other side of the world, you can bugger off, because you will loose your visa if you dare to leave our country to remind yourself of your wife or children – no exceptions, even if they are all dying, or if your wife becomes interested in another man, because you abandoned them and came to Australia and no matter whether your children may think that you have abandoned them or grow up to not even recognise you if you would meet them somewhere on this planet in the future.” (http://www.safecom.org.au/end-of-tpvs.htm)

This is a horrible message, it portrays Australia to be cold, ruthless and unkind toward people in honest need of protection. To bring back this policy would be inhumane and damaging not only to the all the Asylum Seekers and Refugees but to the way people view Australia.

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