50 million displaced people in the world today; all fleeing from war and oppression, a lot of which we helped create. Some countries literally have millions of displaced people, some hundreds of thousands.
And we cop the smallest trickle of people.
we are one of the richest countries in the world, and have more space than practically every other country. But we can’t help at all? We can’t help this desperate handful of people?
Really?

They come to Australia expecting freedom from war and detention, but they are put in a facility surrounded by barbed wire…like criminals.

Australia’s policy of mandatory detention means that everyone is locked up, including small children.

We have two political parties preaching hatred and intolerance, trying to top each other in how sickeningly cruel they can be to fellow human beings in need.

This will go down as a very dark time in our history.

To govern is not to crush the persons or processes governed, or to dominate them, but to mobilize them toward some ends – Rose, 2005

End Children in Detention

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