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reynardoI am sending this letter to the Prime Minister.
Dear Mr Turnbull,
I am writing to you to ask you to change the way Australia treats asylum seekers, especially those who come as refugees, desperately seeking our help.
I am asking from the point of view of economics and rational action. I'm asking for these people to be brought to Australia to be processed in the community, supported in the community, and welcomed into the community.
Banishing them to offshore processing centres and locations is not cost effective. It costs a great deal more to place refugees in the camps on Manus, on Nauru, and at Christmas Island. Sending the asylum seekers to Cambodia has also been an incredibly cost-inefficient action.
There are plenty of places in Australia where whole families could be brought into a community, housed, and treated like human beings for a great deal less than the cost of sending them to these other places. They could get effective preventative and timely health care that would cost a lot less than trying to treat them on the islands. And they could contribute to the communities, especially out in those Australian towns where the injection of funds and support services could revitalise places that are otherwise fading away.
Most of all, if Australia is seen as treating asylum seekers and refugees as human beings, this will greatly decrease a lot of the enmity and outrage in some of the local and overseas communities. This is costing Australia in trade, in defence and in our own sense of security.
Surely the onshore intake and community processing of the small number of asylum seekers and refugees is a tiny price to pay, in comparison to what it is costing Australia now in dollars, in power, and in goodwill.
Please bring these people out of the offshore camps and bring them to Australia.
Sincerely...
Dear Mr Turnbull,
I am writing to you to ask you to change the way Australia treats asylum seekers, especially those who come as refugees, desperately seeking our help.
I am asking from the point of view of economics and rational action. I'm asking for these people to be brought to Australia to be processed in the community, supported in the community, and welcomed into the community.
Banishing them to offshore processing centres and locations is not cost effective. It costs a great deal more to place refugees in the camps on Manus, on Nauru, and at Christmas Island. Sending the asylum seekers to Cambodia has also been an incredibly cost-inefficient action.
There are plenty of places in Australia where whole families could be brought into a community, housed, and treated like human beings for a great deal less than the cost of sending them to these other places. They could get effective preventative and timely health care that would cost a lot less than trying to treat them on the islands. And they could contribute to the communities, especially out in those Australian towns where the injection of funds and support services could revitalise places that are otherwise fading away.
Most of all, if Australia is seen as treating asylum seekers and refugees as human beings, this will greatly decrease a lot of the enmity and outrage in some of the local and overseas communities. This is costing Australia in trade, in defence and in our own sense of security.
Surely the onshore intake and community processing of the small number of asylum seekers and refugees is a tiny price to pay, in comparison to what it is costing Australia now in dollars, in power, and in goodwill.
Please bring these people out of the offshore camps and bring them to Australia.
Sincerely...
