Australia is considered one of the safest countries in the world. If this is so, why is our nation denying refugee’s access to come here when they are in desperate need for a safe haven? We pride ourselves on accepting all cultures and nations, helping them out as much as we can. But when it comes to asylum seekers, we become so ignorant about the topic that the majority of us show no empathy towards them. This is exemplified by current programs Australia has implemented which help with the refugee’s necessities and caters to their safety - which restricts the basic rights and freedom they came here for. Not only that, but our acceptance rate is extremely low compared to countries that are financially unstable and to countries with a smaller
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Many people think that the government already does so much for refugees and that we should not do anymore. But they are not clearly seeing all the negative impacts they will leave, if we do not help them out. Refugees will die and suffer, and we will be held responsible for it. Those people need to realize that asylum seekers are fleeing for a reason, otherwise, they would not risk their lives to get on an unstable boat and sail all the way here. The majority of Australians are also worried that refugees will set an inadequate reputation for our nation as they believe that they will commit crimes once they arrive here. But according to the criminal statistics from the Australian institute of Criminology, there are 10,000 inmates in prison and only 2,000 of them are not Australian born. This meant that the remaining 8,000 prisoners created 80% of the population, committed most of the crimes and were born in Australia; sure they may commit some crimes before coming here, but is due to the poor living conditions they were going through and they need time to adjust. People also argue that we should help the homeless people first, instead of refugees. Although this is true, why can we not work on both issues instead of excluding one? We need to do all we can to help the less-fortunate and focusing on a group out of a heap, is not going to
Many people think that the government already does so much for refugees and that we should not do anymore. But they are not clearly seeing all the negative impacts they will leave, if we do not help them out. Refugees will die and suffer, and we will be held responsible for it. Those people need to realize that asylum seekers are fleeing for a reason, otherwise, they would not risk their lives to get on an unstable boat and sail all the way here. The majority of Australians are also worried that refugees will set an inadequate reputation for our nation as they believe that they will commit crimes once they arrive here. But according to the criminal statistics from the Australian institute of Criminology, there are 10,000 inmates in prison and only 2,000 of them are not Australian born. This meant that the remaining 8,000 prisoners created 80% of the population, committed most of the crimes and were born in Australia; sure they may commit some crimes before coming here, but is due to the poor living conditions they were going through and they need time to adjust. People also argue that we should help the homeless people first, instead of refugees. Although this is true, why can we not work on both issues instead of excluding one? We need to do all we can to help the less-fortunate and focusing on a group out of a heap, is not going to