Our country has finally reached the bottom of the barrel.
The people in charge have lost the plot.
whatever drugs they have been on, were too strong and they have been using them far too often.
I’m a sorcerer, let me stay
EXCLUSIVE
NATASHA BITA
SORCERY, sexuality and loan sharks are some of the excuses asylum seekers have used in a bid to stay in Australia.A student from PNG sought refugee status on the grounds he is the “grandson of an accused sorcerer’’, claiming vengeful tribesmen would try to kill him for inheriting the magical powers.
He told the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) his grandfather was “blamed for the sorcery death of an old man in the village’’.
“(The man) claims that after his grandfather died, people from other tribes believed that his sorcery practices were passed (to him),’’ the recent decision by AAT member Michael Hawkins states.
“(He) claims that if he returns to PNG, he will be a target and be killed.’’
The man told the AAT his grandfather had been “thrown off a cliff’’.
The Home Affairs Department rejected the refugee application after cancelling the man’s student visa in 2017.
The man, who is now in immigration detention, was picked up for drink driving and unlicensed driving in 2018, and jailed for domestic violence a year later.
The AAT upheld the deportation order, stating that it “does not accept that the applicant was accused of sorcery by an opposing tribe or anyone’’.
Meanwhile, two sisters from Zimbabwe were granted refugee status after the AAT ruled they would be persecuted as “women who support and sympathise with LGBTI persons’’ — overturning a Home Affairs Department rejection of their asylum claim.One sister told the tribunal that she had flown to Australia to attend a wedding in 2016 and could not go home to Zimbabwe because her brother, who lives in Australia, had just “come out’’ as a homosexual.
She claimed this would risk the safety of family members.
A Chinese man who tried to stay in Australia to avoid “loan sharks’’ in his home country lost his refugee claim.
The man sought asylum after flying to Australia on a holiday visa in 2019.