What a great article, I know that while I nursed my father in his final weeks I looked around and saw the majority of nurses and doctors were from other countries, refugees and immigrants alike. They showed compassion to my father and did whatever they could to retain his dignity and comfort in his last days, which were incredibly difficult and traumatic for him. which makes the following quote from the article linked below all the more relevant. "What I know is that if I do make it to old age, I won’t be expecting those who’ll be wiping my arse or emptying my catheter bag in a nursing home to be Australian. It is going to be the newcomers who will do that work – whether they arrive by boat or plane, whether asylum seeker, refugee or migrant. If it isn’t the newcomers, if it isn’t the migrants, then Australians are going to have to radically restructure their labour laws, their aspirations, and their sense of entitlement regarding work conditions, benefits and pensions. That is the discussion that our political parties should be having, those are the discussions all of us should be having. That we are instead facing a sixth consecutive election where the asylum seeker issue lies at the heart of the choice the electorate must make says something about how deep in the sand we have placed our heads. We don’t talk about what is going to be happening here in 20 years because we are all bereft – left, right, Green, conservative – of such long-term vision." themonthly.au/issue/2013/september/1377957600/christos-tsiolkas/why-australia-hates-asylum-seekers#
Posted on: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 03:48:54 +0000
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