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| Australia to accept 12,000 refugees from Iraq, Syria |
| 2015-09-10 |
| [Rudaw] Prime Minister Tony Abbott has announced that Australia will accept 12,000 Iraqi and Syrian refugees and the Australian government will be charged with assisting new arrivals, the Sky news agency reports. Abbott told the press Wednesday that Australia is playing an active role in the coalition of nations fighting the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... in Iraq and Syria and is also involved in support for the migrants crisis. "Australia is ready to accommodate and confirm [asylum for] 12,000 Iraqi and Syrian refugees who have fled war and violence," Abbott was quoted as saying to Sky news. Abott added that the Australian government supports Germany's plan of distributing refugees equally over European countries. Abbott has stressed that Australia has a role in dealing with the humanitarian crisis that has seen the largest number of displaced people since the Second World War, according to Sky. The government will reportedly spend $44 million to supply 240,000 refugees with cash, food, water and blankets in Leb, ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Jordan. The 12,000 Syrian and Iraqi refugees will be in addition to Australia's existing humanitarian intake of 13,750, The Guardian news agency reported. The prime minister also announced that Australia's strikes against the Islamic State organization positions, which already take place in Iraq, might extend to Syria in the near future. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #7 a mini hong kong up north would be great even better would be removing recognition of Indonesia's illegal occupation of West Papua and referring it to the UN Trusteeship Council for administration until it can stand on its own feet |
| Posted by: anon1 2015-09-10 22:46 |
| #6 Australia should build a city up in the swamps up North and let the Papuans live there. Let any Chinese boat people live there as well. Create a little Hong Kong. But I wouldn't let Muslim immigrants in. I believe ISIS when they said that flooding the west with troops pretending to be refugees, and even if that were untrue they tend not to assimilate and demand the host country bend to their will. Bad guests. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2015-09-10 21:32 |
| #5 we dont want them. we have 15,000 west papuan refugees sitting in PNG on our northern border. We should take them first - they are christians fleeing an Indonesian muslim genocide. We dont take them because they are not in the news and people dont know about them. they are not in the news because, unlike the US, Australia does not value freedom of speech or the press. We have not got a bill of rights, or a first amendment. Australia is run by DFAT and the spy agencies - they are now above the law. Its a nominal democracy only. DFAT and the spy agencies have decided that West Papua is not to be talked about. They do not want to upset Indonesia, a muslim nation of 250 million people to our north with better guns than us and a lucrative trade market. So neither major political party mentions them and no mainstream media reports them. But we get news about syria because that is far away. So the public clamour and because it means nothing and doesnt upset indonesia, the government accepts syrians. It is a lie that Abbott will take the christians first. He wont he will take whatever muslims he is given and he wont even bother to screen out the sharia supporters from the secular. this is because it is the Department of Immigration that does the processing not him or his party and the Department has rules which its bureaucrats must follow and those rules do not allow it to discriminate on the grounds of religion. so they will not we will be importing more IS, sharia promoters and fans of the Caliphate to join the hizb ut tahrir that are already here |
| Posted by: anon1 2015-09-10 18:27 |
| #4 Western Nations that take refugees should make it very clear that refugees are not immigrants and that they must return when whatever caused them to become refugees is gone. Also if they break a single law they should be deported. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2015-09-10 16:46 |
| #3 |
| Posted by: 2015-09-10 06:11 |
| #2 Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong Under the shade of a coolibah tree, And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled " Who'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me" |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-09-10 04:27 |
| #1 I've seen Australian sources that said they will be accepting Christian refugees. For example Ever since that recent hostage incident in a cake shop, the Ozzies seem to be pushing back against the Islamics. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2015-09-10 01:12 |