RE: [LINK] Tampa or St. Louis?

From: Galen Townson (Galen.Townson@ditm.nsw.gov.au)
Date: Wed Aug 29 2001 - 14:11:21 EST

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Galen
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gordon Keith [mailto:gordon.keith@marine.csiro.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, 29 August 2001 11:20 AM
> To: russell@Ashdown.net.au; link@www.anu.edu.au
> Subject: Re: [LINK] Tampa or St. Louis?
> 
> 
> On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 09:50, russell@Ashdown.net.au wrote:
> 
> > Australia, and Australians are being portrayed by overseas media
> > groups as a nation of callous xenophobes. 
> 
> Aren't we?
> 
> Statistics I heard recently:
> There are currently 23 million refugees in the world (0.38% 
> of world's 
> population).
> Half of these are children
> 
> Australia currently accepts 12,000 refugees a year (0.06% of 
> Australias 
> population) 
> 
> If a refugee manages to make it to the Australian embassy in 
> India, and 
> manages to fill in the forms and puts them in the envelope, it will 
> currently be 18 months before the envelope is opened so the 
> application 
> can be assessed.
> 
> There are currently 80,000 illegal imigrants in Australia who 
> come from 
> Britain. Pratically nothing is being done to stop such people 
> entering 
> or overstaying their welcome. 
> 
> Yet are the people of Australia complaining about it?
> 
> Regards
> Gordon
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