Asylum Seekers Persuasive Speech

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Tv Host: Good Afternoon this is Laura from... We have all heard that the Nauruan government intends to process the refugee claims of 600 asylum seekers within a week. Furthermore, the Australian Government Policy is trying to stop the boat people from entering into Australia by sending asylum seekers to places like Nauru. This is a current issue that has been generating a lot of debates amongst Australians. Today we will be talking to Anika Tukara an Asylum seeker advocate who works with Asylum seeker resource centre. Please give a round of applause and welcome Anika Tukara *Applause*
Tv host: hi how are you Anika?
Anika: I'm fine thank you
TV host: What do you think of this issue about Asylum seekers being sent offshore by the Australian …show more content…
Asylum seekers are people who have fled from their country not by choice but because their country is facing a civil war and their human rights are not being respected. Australia as a country, has accepted to help asylum seekers so they should be taken good care of. First of all, living conditions in Nauru are terrible due to poor medical services and unhealthy environment with overcrowded detention centres. This often leads to child abuse, rape and sexual assault happening in detention centres. Young innocent children suffer from extreme physical, emotional and psychological development distress. Every child at that young age should not go through this traumatising experience. Can you imagine your own child going through that with no support from their families or friends and knowing that nothing can be done to help them? For women, it is a constant mental torture to them for having to live under this darkness where they have no one to talk to about the pain and suffering that they are going through. It is hard for one to imagine the conditions that sick children and pregnant women have to bear or face in Nauru where the medical services are not of the standard that we in Australia have come to

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