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Sat, 01 Jan 2005

Australian hospitality

According to news.com.au, “The Bakhtiyari family could face a bill of more than $3million to repay the costs of their detention following their deportation from Australia.”

Kind of our government isn’t it? Detain them, persecute them in the courts, separate kids from parents, finally deport them, and now there’s talk of asking them to pay for all this hospitality. It looks as if asylum seekers are being encouraged to look elsewhere for shelter. It’s only a news.com.au story, so it could be completely wrong—but it could also be based on the truth. If there’s any truth in it, it’s one more disgraceful thing perpetrated by our pitiful excuse for a government. It’s enough to make you ashamed of being Australian.