Kat wrote on Feb 20^th, 2014 at 10:13am:


Are you the exact opposite of a xenophobe kat?

Would the exact opposite of a xenophobe be someone who promiscuously embraces foreign cultures while snobbishly rejecting their own home grown culture?

Was it Rudd and the greens who were in power when Manus Island was reopened?
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Labor and the Greens not only reopened Manus Island they expanded the capacity of it to well above Howard's level.

The greens and labor are filthy hypocrites and liars!

John Smith wrote on Feb 20^th, 2014 at 11:42am:


And of course it was Abbotts excellent campaign of fear and hatred which eventually forced Labor into the gutter with Abbott.

Baronvonrort wrote on Feb 20^th, 2014 at 10:56am:


yes, but under Rudd the asylum seekers weren't left to be beaten by the natives ...

it's only After Abbott got in that management of the facility went downhill

Once again we play the Blame Game.

In the meantime, innocent people are badly injured and at least one is dead.

Anus Island should be closed and all existing refugees processed in Australia.

If they are to be deported, and haven't a passport, issue them another one.

Simple, really. Just like some of the posters here.

Once again we play the Blame Game.

In the meantime, innocent people are badly injured and at least one is dead.

Peter Freedman wrote on Feb 20^th, 2014 at 1:12pm:



Ah, but that's where you're wrong: according to the right-wing redneck racist bigots in this forum, brown people aren't "innocent" at all.

Iranian-Australian freelance interpreter Azita Bokan was contracted to work on Manus Island for the Department of Immigration last week.

She was on Manus Island during the violent clashes on both nights.

Ms Bokan claims she was dismissed on Sunday after trying to intervene in a scuffle between detainees and G4S staff.

On Monday night she stood on the roof of the staff housing facility several hundred metres away from the compound and watched the unrest.

She has described seeing detainees with horrific injuries after a deadly clash involving large rocks and machetes.

“I haven’t had sleep in three nights. I’m so all over the place, myself. I’ve seen too much and I keep having flashbacks,” she told the ABC.

“The injuries were horrendous. It was blood everywhere. Throats were cut. It was heads crushed by the rocks.”

Ms Bokan claims she saw uniformed G4S guards jump over the fence towards detainees, but could not see who was wielding the rocks and knives because it was too dark and she was too far away.

“Everyone was running everywhere saying, ‘help us’, shouting, yelling, lots of yelling was happening, and the people say, ‘they’re killing us, they’re killing us’,” she said.

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Ms Bokan says the violence she saw is like nothing she has ever witnessed.

“What is in Australia, it does not apply there. I was in Darwin, I was in other detention centres. Nothing compares to what you see in Manus Island,” she said.

Ms Bokan says she saw detainees trying to defend themselves by holding up plastic chairs.

“I never would’ve thought under Australia’s name we do anything like that. I still keep Australia highly up. I do not believe Australians are about this. We do not accept this in our names.”

Immigration Minister Scott Morrison says he has had no verification of anything of the nature described by Ms Bokan.

“Those investigations and the collection of that information is under way, and I would caution against such speculation until these matters can be properly confirmed,” he told the ABC.

“I imagine there will be all sorts of interviews undertaken from people who were there and the various other authorities and that goes well beyond the perimeter fence.

“It goes to establishing the facts of what occurred that night. I think this is going to be a very difficult process.”