Tired of refugees

I AM getting tired of the continuing debate on asylum seekers and refugees, especially comments coming from the UN on how it is Australia’s responsibility to look after these people.
Yet this same organisation makes no effort to improve the conditions in the countries these individuals are coming from.
The UN issues resolutions, yet they apply in only a handful of countries that act on these resolutions – Libya and the Balkans were fine examples – and the cost to uphold these resolutions is borne by the same old few while the UN sits on its moral backside and it doesn’t cost it a cent.
I have no doubt that the refugee councils, human rights advocates and all their fellow travellers, both in an outside Parliament, will not be satisfied until “home lands” are issued to the array of refugees coming in.
Home lands on the Australian continent have already been raised. There was a report some time back in which it was stated that if the continent was broken up Australia would become a patchwork of “basket cases” that exist in Africa.
The biggest burden that we face is the millstone around our necks, the UN Charter of Refugees.
This so-called treaty is continually being used to criticise Australia and its policy of being a sovereign government that has the rights to legislate its own laws.
There have been reports that our governments lack “courage” and are more interested in the polls.
True there are no statesmen in any of our governments, especially those that survive on “favours” to remain in power like Canberra.
The refugee policy could be turned with the stroke of a pen – we pull out of this refugee charter until it is renegotiated, for under its present structure it is not in the interests of this country and is being used by refugee advocates to pat themselves on the back and build up brownie points in the afterlife.
Richard Ryan,
Dandenong.