'Refugees' showing their suitability for Australia

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www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/bashings-self-harm-and-crimes-are-being-committed-by-asylum-seekers-in-australias-immigration-detention-centres/story-fndo2dsc-1226459378906

AUSTRALIA'S immigration detention centres have been exposed as often lawless, violent, high-tension facilities.

Rape and sexual assault claims, mass breakouts, home-made alcohol, weapons, hunger strikes and a high number of attempted suicides and self-mutilations feature in confidential security reports.

Thousands of incidents are recorded in security documents released for the first time under Freedom of Information.
Logbooks from late 2009 to mid-2011 contain a number of actual and threatened self-harm incidents, ranging from attempted hangings from basketball rings and room fixtures to wrist and stomach slashings.

The logs also document assaults against security staff employed by private firm Serco and between detainees. In one attack, the immigration Ombudsman was grabbed around the neck at Villawood in Sydney.
The logbooks also reveal the discovery of contraband ranging from "tools of escape", passports, pornography, knives and fermenting fruit for home-made alcohol.
Detainees were found to have razor blades concealed within their mouths or hidden in clothing or bedding.
Medication was another issue, with detainees attempting to overdose on Panadeine or other drugs, including a child suspected of overdosing in May 2011 at Darwin Airport Lodge.
Detainees swallowed dishwashing liquid, washing powder and hand sanitiser in self-harm attempts. Others dug their own graves at facilities in Leonora and Auburn last year.
Mobile phones were regularly confiscated and there were several food fights.
Monash University researcher Adrienne Millbank said most detainees did not leave quietly if their refugee claims were rejected.
"It's part of the strategy and tactics that are used to get the support of advocates and to get release from detention into the community and then to get a visa," she said.
What has happened in Australia's detention centres:
VIOLENCE
* Rape
* Sexual assault, sexual harassment and indecent exposure
* Bashings of fellow detainees and inter-racial rivalry
* Threats against staff, including visiting ombudsman
CONTRABAND
* Home-brew alcohol
* Pornographic material
* Mobile phones
* Unauthorised medications
ESCAPES
* Mass breakouts, including 30 or more breaching security perimeter
* Assault against staff member and escape on return from church outing
* Using school uniform to attempt to catch bus out of facility
* Mum, dad and child in pram attempt to walk out of facility
SELF-HARM
* Numerous attempted hangings
* Overdosing on medication, swallowing cleaners and chemicals and sewing lips together
* Actual and threatened wrist and other limb slashings with razor blades or sharp objects including drink containers
* Climbing to height, on roofs and other infrastructure as well as numerous hunger strikes
Anyone with personal problems can call Lifeline on 13 11 14

- with Mark Dunn and Peter Mickelburough

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Sounds like the very sort of people we want in Australia.

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Monash University researcher Adrienne Millbank said most detainees did not leave quietly if their refugee claims were rejected.
"It's part of the strategy and tactics that are used to get the support of advocates and to get release from detention into the community and then to get a visa," she said.

Exactly! Unfortunately there are a lot of people a lot less pragmatic and realistic as Adrienne Millbank.

I am sick of the assumption that we are somehow responsible for their disgusting behaviours. These people will never make responsible, contributing, lawful citizens. We have whole communities freeloading on the working taxpayers of Australia and with absolutely no benefit to our society thanks to that corrupt and useless UN.

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Mind you....one only has to look at the FIRST boat people to infest Oz.

They may have been whities, but they were convicts, criminals, rapists, murderers, thieves, and many other undesirables.

I guess the already existing inhabitants of Oz would have been greatly perplexed by the boat people invading their land.

What goes around ALWAYS eventually comes back around again!

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They may have been whities, but they were convicts, criminals, rapists, murderers, thieves, and many other undesirables.

And some may have only stolen a piece of bread because they were starving.

And please note that they did not always send the worst of the convicts to Australia. There was always the need to send convicts who would behave and who would work and who had special skills and trades so they could build the new colony.

Those who were intractible found themselves in Van Diemen's Land and Norfolk Island where they died without ever finding themselves on the mainland.

[garfield]

I think the worst offenders were the New Zealanders, they had an appalling record when it came to the treatment of the maoris, and it continues to this day, I'd be ashamed to be a New Zealand citizen after reading this ...


www.newzealandwars.co.nz/campaigns.html

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I totally agree Garfield , the NZ record is appalling.

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Back to the subject -

VIOLENCE
* Rape
* Sexual assault, sexual harassment and indecent exposure
* Bashings of fellow detainees and inter-racial rivalry
* Threats against staff, including visiting ombudsman

Can you just imagine what would happen when released?

[garfield]

Asylum seekers turn pirates, seize boat, attack crew off Sri Lanka
by:
Gemma Jones, Political Reporter From:
News Limited Network October 18, 2012
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Sri Lanka Navy's Offshore Patrol Vessel brings two fishermen ashore.
A GROUP of asylum seekers intent on travelling to Australia turned pirate and took over a fishing vessel off Sri Lanka - apparently attacking crew members.
Sri Lanka's High Commissioner to Australia, Admiral Thisara Samarasinghe, said a badly injured survivor from the boat had been rescued by the Sri Lanka Navy and taken to hospital.
“We are aware that a boat was set upon by a group of people, three people have perished, one man survived and it is suspected that these are people trying to get a good conditioned boat to get to Australia,” Samarasinghe told News Ltd.
There are conflicting reports about the fate of the three other fishermen who were on the boat that was boarded.
Naval Spokesperson Kosala Warnakulasooriya told Sri Lanka's Times Online that the remaining crew of the boat - the Thejan putha - opted to continue their journey with their captors.
The injured man was led off a Navy vessel with a large bandage around his stomach area and wearing a neck brace after apparently being attacked.
The group of about 10 asylum seekers, including a woman, used a small boat to reach the fishing vessel when they set upon the crew and took control of the vessel, according to reports from Sri Lanka.
The gang are believed to have attacked the fishing boat's crew with swords and are now believed to be still on the way to Australia.
Two merchant vessels came to the aid of the two members of the crew who opted to jump from the ship.
Opposition Immigration spokesman Scott Morrison said the alleged criminal behaviour of the asylum seekers should draw a tough response from the Australian government.
He said the government needed to help Sri Lankan disrupt people smuggling operations.

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Wouldnt it be just priceless to see them do the same thing with the next 'Peace Flotilla' on it's way to Gaza - the verbal gymnastics of the left would be awesome. OK different oceans and it aint gonna happen but it would be wonderful.

Again what wonderful people these 'refugees' / pirates are. Just the sort we want here in Australia.

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No one is advocating criminals be allowed to immigrate to these shores and indeed laws dictate as such...bullshit to think so.

Australia has an obligation under humanitarian grounds to accept genuine refugees and to give asylum.
Where as in Johnnie Howards time those seeking asylum as refigees the number who were found to be the real Mc Coy was 98%, currently it is 65%...the demographic of asylum seekers has changed over te years and its more desperate people seeking better economic situations.

The Pacific Solution nor turning boats back will succeeed in reducing the numbers only a regional solution where aid is focusing on poverty and not creating war and fixing environmental issues.

It is push factors at play here not piull factors as the conservatives will spin.

Politicans should look to the future with vison and not look at the past as the best means forward, given if Mitt Romney wins the next US election and is the Prez...then war is a certainty as a means to justify his military spending and out of the war will be born ever more asylum seekers, as well as though seeking refuge from extreme weather events and rising sea levels.

What worked in the past will not work in the future....creative and visionary policy is whats needed.

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[Salem]

KTJ, in those days, a man who stole a loaf of bread to feed his wife and children were considered convicts and thieves. If thats what you consider them to be, so be it, we're proud of it.

[Salem]

Garfield, RIGHT ON! ;D

[garfield]

Learner driver Guelor Lutumba jailed for six years after fatal crash





A LEARNER driver has been jailed for six years over a head-on crash near Perth Airport that killed a passenger and seriously injured five others.
Guelor Lutumba, 29, was sentenced in Perth's District Court today for one count of dangerous driving causing death, three counts of dangerous driving causing grievous bodily harm, two counts of dangerous driving causing bodily harm, one count of unauthorised driving as a learner driver, and one count of driving a vehicle contrary to a compliance notice.
The Thornlie man pleaded guilty to all charges relating to the two-car collision on Dunreath Drive, Redcliffe, on the night of New Year's Day this year.
He had attempted to overtake a truck along a curve in the road and collided head-on with another vehicle.
The crash claimed the life of a 40-year-old Queensland woman in his car and injured the four others, including the woman's six-year-old son.
The couple travelling in the other car were also taken to hospital with serious injuries.
During a sentencing hearing in Perth's District Court today, Judge Christopher Stevenson said Lutumba, a former child soldier from the Democratic Republic of Congo who migrated to Australia, was a learner driver but had not displayed his L-plates nor did he have an instructor in the car with him on the night of the crash.
His car was also subject to a compliance notice.
"Your crime was the direct and only cause of the tragic events which occurred," Judge Stevenson said.
"If you had driven normally with reasonable care and skill and with due regard to other members of thepublic, including your own passengers, the deceased person would not have died and the victims would not have suffered the calamitous injuries, both physical and emotional, which they will now bear for the rest of their lives."
Lutumba will be eligible for parole after serving four years of his sentence.
He was also fined $850 for unauthorised driving by a learner driving and contravening a compliance notice.