At first blush, this might seem like one of those weeks when there’s a breakthrough in the public conversation on asylum seekers; where the stifling assumptions built over decades are suddenly dismantled and a new paradigm built.
The evidence of that seems to be in the numbers. More than 95,000 people have claimed asylum after arriving by plane in the past five years. This is hefty given the Rudd/Gillard era had something like 50,000 arrivals. But here’s another hefty number: more than 84 per cent of plane applicants have been rejected.By contrast, boat arrivals have tended overwhelmingly to be genuine refugees.
The longer it goes on, the more these people can be exploited. Once upon a time, our bureaucratic stalling might have seemed a clever deterrent. Now it’s a loophole. And it’s a difficult one to close because you can’t really crack down on tourist or business visas in the bludgeoning way we tend to do in asylum seeker policy without seriously damaging our economy.
In so doing, it inevitably plays on the spectre of hoards of invading asylum seekers. And it silently evokes all the tropes of queue-jumping fake refugees we’ve been so conditioned to accept. That is precisely what makes it an attractive line of attack against the government. That doesn’t invite much sympathy or solidarity for those claiming asylum. So how compelling can it be when, in the next sentence, Labor is asking us to feel for these people who have been exploited? The government seems confident it isn’t terribly compelling at all.
Even when Dutton does address the question of these people’s welfare, it is framed in very familiar terms. “We don’t have people drowning on planes coming into Australia,” he observes, as though these plane arrivals are therefore harmless. This skims over the fact that there are other kinds of harm alleged here, perhaps even as dark as sex trafficking.
Do you guys who are so called jounalists know the rules? Obviously fckn not!...No passport..no boarding...passports are scanned...and e visa required to enter the country...plus..the most important thing..do you think that the airlines want to pay a very fine of $5000 per pax?
Ok walleed...ask yourself that question...you should know...
Yes. They're just as bad as boat people. Send them back.
We definitely don’t care about waleed that I can confirm
Think you used the wrong file image
LNP gov is boasting that they had ward off boat refugees but we r getting 70k of plane refugees The tourism lobby is demanding for easy visa so we r getting a big loophole with illegal plane refugees They'd be here for years tru d courts
Waleed being stupid again.
Wish Waleed would get on one and piss off.
Really short answer, yes.
At the very least they actually have documents that identify them , so tracing their bona fides is made very much easier and security is less of an issue. Beats the cost of having to look into this with no id docs, just their word about who they are and where they come from
‘Plane people’ have to have tickets sold by airlines, identity papers like passports and visas. We have some info about who they are & where they boarded. If they break our laws they get sent back immediately. Not like boat people!
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