Refugee Update

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Refugee crisis: How you can help refugees trying to reach safety in Europe and here in Australia

First, the good news: the PM has agreed to permanently resettle 12,000 Syrian refugees. The 12,000 places will be in addition to the annual offshore quota and Muslims will not be less eligible than other refugees.

Meanwhile, a Syrian asylum seeker has been repatriated after two years at the Manus Island detention centre. Syrian asylum seekers on Manus are being placed under extreme pressure to return home, including those who are severely mentally ill, including the sharing of their information with Syrian authorities.

Comments

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Of course we're repatriating people to Syria. Of course we are.

And now we're planning bombing raids, because there's a budget emergency and that will stop the boats or something.

Honestly I'm at the point of just being so damn angry that what I mostly want to do is repatriate Abbott and Morrisson and Dutton and Shorten and all the others who think this will stop the boats and see how they like it.

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One day I shall actually read some Kafka, which will give me the authority to describe things as "Kafka-esque", although I have a feeling I'm going to find much of what happens in his work drearily familiar.