1. Laws Need to Change
... 5,639 boat people of whom not one had been found to present a security risk. Contrary to this, on November 7, 2001 the Prime Minister linked the terrorist threat to asylum seekers when he claimed that: "There is a possibility that some people having links with organisations that we don't want in this country might use the path of an asylum seeker in order to get here". This claim plays into people's general insecurity ... an irresponsible media seems to be a major determinate in not only the creation of a xenophobic public opinion but also in the re-election of misleading governments. I...
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