On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 01:49:57PM +1100, David wrote:
Worth reading: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/16/magazine/how-to-build-a-perfect-refugee-ca...
nice article. thanks for the link. ultimately it's very depressing though 'cos even with a sane and humane refugee policy there's still no real solution except to not have refugees in the first place. presumably this is what the (now depleted) foreign aid budget was meant to help with - stopping the flow of refugees at its source by making people's lives better in their homelands. maybe the Libs look at it economically and think it's cheaper to be cruel to aquatic asylum seekers at our borders than be kind to many more people abroad. walled garden instead of world peace. or indeed our government could step up locally and help to fund solutions for some of the global problems of our time - climate, inequality, food, energy - which are usually responsible for insecurity and warzones in the first place. currently it appears they prefer to ignore such things and leave them for other countries and future generations to deal with. cheers, robin