Ahimsa

Welcome back to this week’s latest edition of Peter Dutton’s “FUCK YOU!” to refugees! In this thrilling instalment we have the following targeted attacks on the most vulnerable:

Stripping income and housing support to asylum seekers transferred to Australia for medical treatment!

This mostly targets families with young children who are given 6 weeks to find new accommodation and income! Some of them don’t even get that but instead only 3 weeks to find new accommodation and instant loss of income support!

These refugees are on bridging visas and will have to support themselves and find jobs despite only having 6 month visas!

These support payments were less than newstart - only $200 a fortnight - and so they were already struggling below the poverty line!

The head of the Vinnies charity, John Falzon, has labelled this as “cruel”! Because it fucking is!

Dutton has repeatedly accused refugees of “ripping off” the taxpayer and being welfare drains despite the fact that it costs $500,000 per year to detain someone on Manus/Nauru which he is intent on doing! What a hypocritical fuck face!

The UN high commission for refugees has said that this puts refugees “at serious risk of destitution” and “any removal of such basic and fundamental support could wrongly coerce the most vulnerable to return to Papua New Guinea, Nauru, or their countries of origin.” Wow! Almost as if Dutton just wants refugees to fuck off back to where they came from and risk being persecuted or dying which is the very reason why they’re refugees in need of coming to Australia.

This has been criticised for increasing the chances that the already vulnerable and ill (remember these people have medical conditions) will become homeless or be coerced into exploitative work. How atrociously cruel!

BUT WAIT! Is that? (ding ding ding ding) A BONUS ROUND! OH MY GOD! DUTTON IS KNOCKING IT OUT OF THE PARK WITH THESE “FUCK YOU”S LATELY!

He’s introduced a new rule for Asylum Seekers that makes Ramadan even harder!

Ever thought that his islamophobia wasn’t explicit enough? Well now it’s more obvious with this NEW RULE! During Ramadan Muslims abstain from food or drink during daylight hours for a month. Members of the Muslim community have up until now brought home cooked meals to share with the detainees after sunset but now they’ve been banned from bringing unpackaged foods into detention centres because, as the government puts it, the rules “provide all detainees with a safe and healthy environment”! Haha get fucked.

Now many fasting asylum seekers go without food! And occasionally they’ve even been offered pork! What bullshit!

This has deeply affected the detainees in the Villawood Immigration Detention Centre in Sydney (which is run by the private prison company Serco Group! Wow! As if there was any ambiguity left that “detention” is just a longer word for “prison”!)

Tune in next time when Peter Dutton and the Liberal government do something even more pointlessly cruel to discourage people from coming here for safety and to make sure their stay is as fucking awful as possible! Wahey! Isn’t our government just the fucking worst?

Riot

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