Australian immigration policy

Because i was using a different blogging service, you won't have seen the views I posted last year about the Australian Govt policy of firstly denying access to a ship carrying refugees (the infamous 'boat people' affair) and secondly (and more recently) of refusing entry to asylum-seekers, so as to avoid any possibility of Australia having to take up its obligations under international law to give them refuge, with the possibilty that they might then (eventually) gain Australian citizenship.

A recent report has been published that at possibly nine people forcibly repatriated to Afghanistan by Australia have been killed. If that is confirmed, it will be a sad reflection on Australian Government policy, and the majority of Australians who voted the Liberal/Coalition Govt into power.

-A