Hi all, Today in Australia, the governing Liberal Party won a repeal of a bill about medical help for refugees detained for more than six years without any timeline for their future. This win was central to their election platform. It is government policy to harm refugees as much as possible, under various justifications which vary when convenient, citing national security, preventing drownings, stopping people smugglers, discouraging queue jumpers or simply "we decide who comes". In Germany, refugees are housed in the community and have freedom of movement in the public. This is generally accepted by all major parties, with one exception. The Alternative für Deutschland, campaigns for similar harsh refugee policies. According to Wikipedia, "the party has been described as a German nationalist, right-wing populist, and Eurosceptic party. Since about 2015, the AfD has been increasingly open to working with far-right extremist groups such as Pegida. Parts of the AfD have racist, Islamophobic, anti-Semitic, and xenophobic tendencies linked to far-right movements such as neo-Nazism and identitarianism." Court cases confirmed that there are substantial reasons to call the current leader of the party in Thuringia. Björn Höcke, a "fascist". A parliamentary spokesperson for German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas stated: "Bernd Lucke is the founder of the most successful Nazi party since the NSDAP." Anti-refugee sentiment is central to the appeal of the AfD to the public, as it is central to the Australian Liberal Party in government as in opposition. I think it is fair to say that Australia is governed by a party with right-wing views at times overlapping with facist and neo-Nazi circles of right wing parties elsewhere in the world. Good night Peter