I READ with interest your front-page article “More compassion please” in Monday’s Central Western Daily and totally agree with Libby Jones’s comments.
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The turning back of asylum-seeker boats and attempting to return the people on board to the very country from which they were fleeing was condemned by the president of the Human Rights Commission and the asylum seeker claims were hardly properly investigated - this alone puts our government in breach of their obligations under the UN convention on refugees.
I find it strange that apparently the principal reason for processing other asylum seekers “offshore “is to deny them the right of appeal should their applications be denied.
It would surely be far better to get the applications processed properly and in reasonable time, process them in Australia where medical, psychological and other necessary facilities are available, and close those expensive and inhumane centres on Christmas Island, Nauru and Manus Island, to say nothing of the proposal to send refugees to Cambodia.
We pride ourselves on being the nation of the “fair go”. Let’s put that notion into practice in this matter .
I was interested in the results of the poll your paper conducted on this subject because everyone to whom I have spoken feels that we are not giving these wretched people a fair go at all.
Tony Smith,
Orange