I'm going to repeat it as well. The Rwanda policy has often been compared to the Australian approach to handling asylum seeker arrivals by boat. However, the UK approach announced this week goes well beyond anything Australia is currently doing. There's a good read here: https://humanrights.gov.au/our-work...s/asylum-seekers-and-refugees#third_countries - but in particular the first paragraph of Section 7, which states very clearly and unambiguously:Walker is right in the above video. Tories are getting away, continually, with saying the refugees are coming here illegally. That they are criminals. That's simply not the case. Everybody has a right to seek asylum, that isn't a crime. It seems mad that it has to be said and them getting away with this kind of language, unchallenged, is very, very dangerous.
Edit: apologies @Berty23 for basically repeating your point a few minutes later
"Seeking asylum in Australia, or elsewhere, is not illegal. In fact, it is a basic human right. All people are entitled to protection of their human rights, including the right to seek asylum, regardless of how or where they arrive in Australia, or in any other country."
From a Human Rights perspective, the word "Australia" in the above is interchangeable with "UK" given the international obligations (under various treaties and conventions etc) that both countries have signed up to.
Given what I linked to is a very long read, there is a passage in there that points to some Aussie law that is a close match to what Braverman and Sunak are now proposing (refusal of the right to apply for asylum if arriving by boat). However, in practice that element of Australian law is not applied - it includes clauses that mean the relevant Minister can waive that part of the law, and there has now for a very long time been a blanket waiver in place and the reality is that Australia's approach to arrivals by boat now is to ensure that boat arrival applications *cannot* be processed faster than non-boat applications.
A key difference here is that Australia does have a process (in fact, it is the preferred method) for applying for asylum from outside the country. An applicant must first apply to the UNHCR for refugee status, and they can then apply for an Australian refugee visa. Unfortunately that process does take time and Australia's problem with arrivals by boat was driven by a perception that it would short cut the process if they were in Australia. Now that it is well known that arriving by boat does not offer a shortcut, the boat "problem" for Australia is vastly diminished.
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