I Want To Catch Mr Whitlam With

Last Year The National Sorry Day Committee Consulted With Stolen Generations People In Every State And Territory, And Concluded That Programmes Set Up In Response To The Bringing Them Home Report Are Reaching Only A Small Fraction Of Those They Are Intended To Help.

I Want To Catch Mr Whitlam With His Pants Down.

Most Asylum Seekers Do Get Permanent Visas, So The Earlier They Receive The Appropriate Help, The Faster They Will Become Part Of The Community. They'll Get Jobs And Start Paying Taxes Too. They Will See Australia As A Nation With A Sense Of Care And Concern. That's So Important For A Cohesive Society. It Helps Build A Sense Of Belonging. And In Terms Of Common Decency, It's What Should Be Happening... For God's Sake, This Is Australia, People Should Be Treated With Decency And Humanity.

I Think The Climate Is Too Important To Say We Are Going To Wait Until All Our Economic Woes Are Over Before We Act Effectively.

At The Moment People Get On Boats Because They Flee Terror At Home And Believe The Many Years' Long Wait In Unhcr Camps Is Not A Valid Option, Especially If They Have Children In Their Care. After The Vietnam War, Australia Took A Larger Humanitarian Intake Than At Any Other Period In Our History. The Australian Community Accepted That. They Were Told Why We Needed To Do It, And Why It Was The Only Ethical Decent Policy That A Wealthy Advanced Country Should Adopt.