The situation has become a lot worse under this government for two reasons.
1. The refugees are
now being classified as criminals - not asylum seekers, so the Papuans have become hostile believing their community is under threat.
You gotta back that up and be more clear.
2. The refugees have been told that there is no hope of being resettled in PNG, Australia or any other country, but they will possibly spend 10 years in detention.
No the story came out that they were told they would not be resettled in Australia. The government is following the ALP policy and the agreement with PNG.
This harshness is not going unnoticed.
What ALP policy?
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Why not just follow normal immigration protocol and try to keep the peace instead of deliberately stirring up tension and anger on both sides of the fence by making threats, innuendos and accusations about a group of people who haven't even been assessed yet?
No one is stirring up people on both sides of the fence at least the government isn't that's just a stupid statement.
Quote:This is now the second serious incident which has occurred at the Manus Island detention facility since the Abbott government came to power,” Marles
The idiot
said in Melbourne. “We need to hear from the government what steps they are going to take to ensure that this kind of incident never happens again.”
he means they should abandon ALP policy
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/17/manus-island-detainees-arrested-con... LOL The Guardian