Government & Politics

Illegal Refugees and Immigrants - effects on public housing.

Government & Politics

Posted by: DanishTina

10th Oct 2014 06:47pm

I agree with supporting and accepting a certain number of refugees and immigrants into Australia every year but not at the expense of scarce public housing being prioritised for new comers ahead of in-need Australian Citizens. Public housing is sorely needed by many thousands of poor and homeless Australians who have often been on housing waiting lists for years. It is not fair to continually have our own country's citizens be pushed to the bottom of the housing queue because illegal immigrants and immigrants end up getting catered to first.

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CAT17
  • 10th Oct 2014 10:17pm

Not only are they housed in public housing but into hotels, motels etc. at taxpayers expense. Asylum seekers are taking our welfare and demanding that we cater to their every wish. Immigration was always a successful program until Labor allowed the flood of people who do not want to assimilate with the Australian way of life but create a foreign 'country' here expecting us to bend to their culture when they have no interest or tolerance of ours. We have Aussie families living in cars and worse while people who have no right to be here live in comfort - even detention centres are more comfortable than living in a car. Something must be done to house the needy who belong here (they are Australians).

CAT17
  • 10th Oct 2014 11:07pm
Yes, affordable housing has become a huge issue in Australia. Though it's not just Labor's past policies that are at fault. Abbott and cigar chomping Hockey don't give a hoot about the average...

Sorry didn't want to get into personalities but just the facts. It was Kevin Rudd changing the policy that caused the problem. It is the homeless that I am concerned about.

DanishTina
  • 10th Oct 2014 10:40pm
Not only are they housed in public housing but into hotels, motels etc. at taxpayers expense. Asylum seekers are taking our welfare and demanding that we cater to their every wish. Immigration...

Yes, affordable housing has become a huge issue in Australia. Though it's not just Labor's past policies that are at fault. Abbott and cigar chomping Hockey don't give a hoot about the average Australian, pensioners, the unemployed, the sick and disabled either. They are just in it for themselves, the wealthy, the mining companies and big businesses in general. In other words, anybody who's got the money to lobby them to get what they want.

DanishTina
  • 10th Oct 2014 06:51pm

Last sentence should read " ... because illegal refugees and immigrants end up getting catered to first."

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