, just like any mining or construction camp surrounde by absurd amounts of razor wire.
, just like any mining or construction camp surrounde by absurd amounts of razor wire.
I have 2 questions I've always wondered about Oztraaalias refugee history..
Was captain cook the first Cue Jumper?
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We're the first fleet the first lot of illegal refugees to land on Australias shores?.
I think the point is for $170mil you can build 1000 2 bedroom self contained units. (Edit: Govt land is free to the Govt, so 1000 HOUSES would be achievable)
They already had a fenced area with accomodation and admin buildings - it is the old army barracks.
All it needed was a facelift for the accomodation, not starting from scratch, and then add all the security stuff that goes with a detention centre.
Of course the facelift has been grossly excessive and it looks like a resort.
Yes conditions have to be humane but when schools have to fundraise for donations in the community to buy one aircon for a classroom that is a bloody donga (not even a real building), or they don't have anywhere near enough beds in E.D or mental health system..... then the Govt spending $170mil to renovate a facility is annoying to say the least.
How about giving the same amount of financial consideration to people and their families who experience mental illness? Or people experiencing homelessness through illness. Seems to me like 'charity' should begin at home, should it not?
, just like any mining or construction camp surrounde by absurd amounts of razor wire. RIP
So how many refugees do we get per year and what is the annual cost???
And aren't we all descendent of refo or migrants?? But my house isn't glass
Bloody sick of a majority saying these bloody crook queue jumpers are "refuges"
The low life queue jumpers bribe sleaze and connive their way though the system with ill gotten gains damaging the prospect of the "real" refuge stuck in a bloody camp some place, with no prospect in moving while these mongrels do him and her and their own, out of any chance of a new life. Dead set arseholes the lot of them, regardless of how they came, boat plane or bloody swam here
One thing that makes me laugh- Northam army camp was used after WW2 as an immigrant housing centre, with the old weatherboard barracks huts housing several families in each.
If the families wanted any privacy they had to string up blankets as walls. They froze in winter- and sweated all summer and were, by-and-large, thankful for it.
Many of these immigrants had no choice regarding where they worked- or in what trade, they went where they were told, and did what they were told as part of the conditions of thier immigration.
I dont know if the old barrack huts are still there- or if they would be in a fit state to use after all these years, but I fail to see why the taxpayer has to pay through the nose so a multinational company can make a fortune running a camp which is handed to them on a plate.
Do we really need to outsource everything- surely our federal govt. can actually run a campsite- if need be, just ask the military for some advice.
That 170 million dollars could have built the new Northam detention centre, plus employ more federal police- and the feds could run the whole thing themselves.
Run it on the same principal as our prison farms- our convicted criminals work on the farms to feed the other prisons, so why cant the detainees work on a big govt. run property to subsidise themselves?
stephen.
^^^^^^
So best you do now, is spend some of that contract money on that hammer finish trailer, and you could claim it was a legit work related cost, cos the locals chucked rocks at your trailer while on site
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2 ways to come here!
Legal:
Refugee following the rite channels, migrants filling mountain of costly paper work.
Illegal:
Queue jumping, pretend refugees, economic refugee and protesting that you are been treated unfairly
Like it or not but face it and we will get rid of the problem!
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When half the funds go to paying for Craig Thompsons escorts?
Do Union members get a discount if they hire Unionised Prostitutes?
Ha... Unionised prostitutes: would demand double the pay for half the work....
You'd get half way through and they would suddenly stop because it was their designated smoko time... 
I will admit, the Unions did alot for us by lobbying for australian workers but it does seem to me that they now hold too much power and people in this country demand more than their fair share without putting in the work for it...
