Schindler's List author compares Australia asylum seekers policy to Holocaust lead-up

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Australian author Thomas Keneally has issued a damning assessment of the Australian government's immigration policy.

, says the Coalition's asylum seeker policies echo the lead-up to the Holocaust.

While Mr Keneally was very clear he wasn't saying the situation mirrored the Holocaust itself, he said Australia's language and policies toward asylum seekers were similar to the lead up to what became the Holocaust."The rhetoric [around asylum seekers] is all negative ... There's stereotyping ... This idea of locking away people for their own good," he said,"these are early stops on the road to Auschwitz".

He told stories about personal interactions with asylum seekers, a lack of global leadership on the issue and the insidiousness of anti-Semitism.For the past six years, all asylum seekers who came to Australia by boat have either been sent to Manus Island or Nauru.

 

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Will he be addressing this?

SBS Load of rubbish. Just SBS hating on Australia again, nothing new.... scrap all funding asap.

Who let him in

SBS I just saw an extra!

This is an irrelevant kaputnik. Why does SBS promote his views?

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