Following on from my June 2012 post – Great Australian open borders experiment – come on down – and April post – Update chart monthly irregular boat arrivals – Australian borders still open, come on down
Data thanks to Michael Smith and Jeff of FNQ.
‘Frauds’ granted refugee status as determination process breaks down
Sounds exactly what I always assumed was happening all along.
Another article too –
Refugee system at sea
by: Greg Sheridan, Foreign editor – The Australian – June 15, 2013 12:00AM
THE refugee determination process in Australia is a sick and dysfunctional farce. This is the verdict of people at its coalface. Their collective judgment is that you could get a blind donkey refugee status in Australia.
It is not that the system is run by bad people, certainly not by corrupt people. But the system is so loosely designed, so completely open to manipulation by asylum-seekers, people-smugglers and community groups emotionally committed to asylum-seekers, and then interacts inappropriately with the Australian legal system, that it has become a multi-billion-dollar joke that is more or less completely worthless.