IMMIGRATION DOUBLE STANDARD: RED CARPET FOR THE RICH WHILE POOR ARE TREATED WORSE THAN ANIMALS CEC AUSTRALIAN ALERT SERVICE October 22nd 2014 According to the Abbott government’s twisted logic, refugees paying passage on leaky boats by selling all they own are ‘queue jumpers’ deserving of indefinite imprisonment for trying to ‘buy their way in’ to Australia, but under the revamped ‘premium investor visa program’ a $15 million buy-in gets you a fast-tracked permanent residency in twelve months provided you park your funds in any of several as yet unannounced “compliant investments” (the previous iteration of the program, begun under the ALP in 2012, promised permanent residency to those investing $5 million in prescribed asset classes after four years). The Chinese government immediately raised concerns that disgraced officials fleeing corruption charges would find it much easier to escape to Australia under the new ‘streamlined’ rules—seven are already thought to have moved here under assumed names, bearing about $1 billion between them, according to Chinese business magazine Caijing, and we have no extradition treaty with China. Meanwhile, reports emerged this week that eighty-seven people imprisoned on Manus Island are still awaiting specialist medical treatment either for injuries sustained during February’s riot—more than eight months ago—or for pre-existing conditions; one man has suffered three bouts of malaria and has lost hearing in one ear, another has bullet fragments in his back, and still another has crush injuries to his knee, pelvis and chest, the Sydney Morning Herald reported on 18 October. The count would have been eighty-eight, but 24-year-old Hamid Khazaei died of septicaemia (blood poisoning) in September after a cut on his foot became infected but was left untreated for a month or more in filthy living conditions. Any Australian who meted out such treatment to a dog or horse could expect fines in the tens of thousands of dollars and up to five years in prison; that our government subjects human beings to months or years of such abuse and then has the gall to squawk constantly at countries like China and Russia about human rights simply beggars belief.
Posted on: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 09:29:08 +0000
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