Peter Ross <Peter.Ross@bogen.in-berlin.de> wrote:
I guess there are many decent people here, as somewhere else in Australian society.
There are, including people who support and advocate publicly for the rights and interests of refugees.
It is just time to get rid of politicians who continue to kick powerless people as asylum seekers are.
I would characterize it as playing politics with the lives of the most vulnerable. The problem with processing asylum claims outside the migration zone is that the applicants have no access to judicial review of decisions that may be made against them. Immigration officers sometimes make serious errors, which can only be corrected if there is a court with jurisdiction to decide the cases. The grounds for judicial review of administrative decisions are confined to matters of law; the facts can't be directly contested in court, and, to avoid a misconception, courts don't entertain frivolous claims. So the result of bad policy is that claims are evaluated in circumstances in which there is no judicial oversight of administrative decisions.