Onlookers gather near the body of one of the victims of a boat that sank off Java island washed ashore on a beach, in West Java, The boat, carrying about 100 asylum seekers from Lebanon, Pakistan and Iraq capsized and sank en route to Australia. (AP Photo) CANBERRA, Australia - As conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere pushed the number
What’s Driving The Merciless Asylum Seeker Policies In Australia?
“[Australians] are being systematically conditioned into accepting the cruel treatment of others as necessary and inevitable.” — Australian writer and social ecologist Isobel Blackthorn