18/04/2022
Yesterday, in his Easter message to faith adherents, the Archbishop of Canterbury was scathing in his criticism of the English Governments’ position in respect of refugees coming to their shores. The government there has decided that tens of thousands of people seeking refuge from persecution would now be sent to Rwanda to be housed there. No doubt there would also have been some monetary inducement given to that struggling African Republic to “sweeten” the deal.
Archbishop Justin Welby has indicated that the policy does not “stand the judgement of God”.
One wonders how the Archbishop would view the various Australian Governments’ and their continued use of the Pacific Solution. This solution sees our government bully our neighbours into housing refugees and asylum seekers for inordinate and often indefinite periods of time rather than to allow them onshore into this country. This same government, in its various hues have even excised, for Immigration purposes, a number of Australian territories so as to declare that these people seeking solace and refuge from persecution had never landed on our lands and were therefore never our responsibility.
Surely these actions are against the very basic principles of Godliness and Humanity and pretty much every religious doctrine around. And yet our government has escaped the wrath of the International Human Rights authorities for many years.
Depressingly, neither major party has resiled from this draconian position at the coming election.
Suresh Rajan