Bloody Boat People!

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http://www.ntnews.com.au/news/northern-territory/irate-detainee-lashes-out/story-fnk0b1zt-1227315641662


AN Iranian asylum seeker assaulted another detainee over a snide comment and flew into a rage – breaking a window – when authorities left his private documents lying around the detention centre mess hall. 
 
The man faced a maximum penalty of a $20,400 fine or two years in prison for Commonwealth property damage.

Darwin Magistrate Tanya Fong Lim declined to convict him due to the authorities' negligence in allowing his ­private life to become public among other detainees at Wickham Point detention ­centre.

"It is not acceptable," she said. "As an immigration detainee you're entitled to privacy and, knowing your situation, authorities ought to have been more careful."

The man, 29 – whose name is suppressed – was scared to hold his son and feared his family would break up when he was diagnosed with hepatitis C just after arriving in Australia in July 2013.

The court heard two of his brothers had died of jaundice and the diagnosis triggered extreme anxiety.

The court heard an "incident" had resulted in a domestic violence order against him.

The Immigration Department cut off the man's contact with his wife and toddler and he was shuffled between ­Darwin and Christmas Island for months.

He attempted self harm. Defence lawyer Sheetal Balakrishnan said her client was "clearly a man on edge".

"He felt self-hatred at his decision to come to Australia and inadequate because he can't do anything for his family," she said.

"It's a volatile situation he has no control over. He regrets what he has done."

Ms Balakrishnan said he asked Immigration not to bring his son to one visit because "the sun was too hot" but the truth was he found it too painful seeing the boy in the belief his wife wanted a divorce. He was ashamed of the request, revealed in the documents that other detainees had read in the mess hall on November 28, 2014.

The man threw a table and a condiment tray, smashed a window five times with a chair and turned over dining tables.

He headbutted a fire control panel and cracked the plastic. Two days before, he shirtcollared a man in the pool room after the victim told him: "This is Australia, you have to wait your turn."

The man screamed at the victim: "F--- Australia ... you are like a hair on my penis."

Ms Fong Lim told the defendant: "Everybody in detention is under pressure.

"We expect detainees to have empathy for how each other feels."

She convicted him for the assault and imposed a 12- month $1000 good behaviour bond on each offence.


Sounds like a proper gentleman! Who wants this hot headed ,disease infested galoot coming to Australia to be a neighbour!?

[Br.IanVonTurpie]

http://www.skynews.com.au/news/top-stories/2015/06/29/shorten-softens-on-boat-turnbacks.html?cid=BP_RSS_sn-topstories_3_shorten-softens-on-boat-turnbacks_290615

Bill Shorten has left the way open for Labor to endorse asylum seeker boat turnbacks, as a former senior Indonesian official slammed the policy.Labor's national conference to be held in Melbourne next month will debate changes to the party's asylum seeker policy.

Mr Shorten said Labor's policy would be compassionate but he was determined to 'make sure that never again do the seaways between Java and Christmas Island become the opportunity for people smugglers to put unsuspecting people into unsafe boats and drown at sea'.

Labor for Refugees convenor Robin Rothfield says turnbacks needlessly put asylum seekers and boat crews in danger.'What it stands to lose is it makes itself out to be a cruel, opportunistic, shameless party which has completely forgotten the values of the party,' he said.