Would you host an asylum-seeker?

3 May 2012
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Australia has announced a plan for people to take asylum seekers into their homes.

Australia has announced a plan for people to take asylum seekers into their homes.

The government has announced funding for people who take asylum seekers into their homes. There are guidelines available for people to apply for the scheme. While there are funds available for those that take in asylum seekers, organisers of the scheme have warned it's not a way for households to supplement their income. What do you think? Is this a good idea in light of overcrowding in asylum seeker centres? Would you welcome an asylum seeker into your home?

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cris - from cairns, 7 months ago

i would welccome someone into my home, what a marvellous opportunity to help a suffering displaced person:-)

You have your own country!!

Lauren - from Marion, Adelaide, 11 months ago

Okay this is just encouraging more Asylum seekers to come over here. The more that come over to Australia, the more chance they will bring their wars with them. Australlia also doesn't have as much room as it used to, so eventually Australia will be over-crowded and the other countries empty. Go home!

go the useless greens

geo - from gold coast, 11 months ago

i wouldnt even let gillard, wong, roxon, or that stupid woman running the greens into my house, let alone an asylum seeker. What has happened to australian politics, if we are not running a committee into something, spending millions of nothing, building the latest out of date communication medium, listening to the crap that the greatest treasurer on earth extols, or listening to gillard espouse how good she is, defending thompson and slipper, roll on the election and soon. go the greens.

Are You Kidding?

Southern Very Cross - from Melbourne, 12 months ago

There is no way I would have any refugees in my hine overnight. There are too many of them who forge their identities and many of their belief systems and customs are too bizarre - sorry, my compassion has dried up, especially to boat people who destroy their identity papers.

are you serious

geo - from gold coast, 1 year

ghere is no way in this wide wide world would either my family or friends host an asylum seeker, are you really serious juliar, boy you have come out with some screwy schemes but this has to be one of your worst. . . why dpnt hyou do us all a favour and resign, come back kevin, at least you have a brain

NO ! to pannicked policy

A Falco - from Sydney, 1 year

Recent developments in the ongoing fiasco over refugee processing have revealed that the Gillard government's badly broken screening system of illegal boat arrivals is add-hock at best and that people smugglers and their corrupt agents are using it's open door policies to great advantage. The only hope of reclaiming the right of Australians to choose "who comes to our country and under what circumstances they come" is to reimpliment the policies which worked under the previous government.

Assylm Seekers and People Smugglers

Sue - from Sydney, 1 year

There is an honest way of entering a country and then there is a dishonest way. Australian People would welcome people wanting to honestly migrate to Australia, though It seems many Australians point of view now is that the Government in power are Fools, they continue to find No solutions to a huge problem, increasing day by day and costing decent hard working Australians higher Taxes to compensate for the Free Lifestyle deals these people are receiving. Look after our Homeless and house them!

filtered

rowbur - from japan, 1 year

So many of these seekers have travelled through countries that are perfectly safe, where they could stay without fear of persecution. Why do they insist on Australia? Financial reasons only. If they are fleeing death or torture, indonesia ,malaysia, india etc. are all democratic countries. If the issue is safety, these places are sufficient. They are also countries where Islam is practiced, and the culture is not as radically different. Why should Aus. bear the burden? Im an Immigrant BTW.

no way

jarhead - from sydney, 1 year

In my home?, forget it!, its enough we have to see them in the street!.

@A Lindenbrook - Bravo!

Simon - from Sydney, 1 year

You don't have to be a racist to want your country to retain some semblance of control over its borders. Or to stop the people smugglers. Now, if only this caricature of a government could get the message the rest of us got so many years ago. Now we have that enemy of the state David Manne trying to free refugees ASIO has put in detention, the need for proper government is greater than ever.

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