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Paul Meyer | SIEV X 21st anniversary: Australian refugee policies lack compassions
It's hard to imagine, in our safe and prosperous nation, that people could be so desperate that they would risk their lives to try to escape from their homelands to a safer place.
Yet this is the situation faced every day by countless thousands of people around the world who have been forced to flee due to the threat of persecution, torture or death.
- Paul Meyer
- The Canberra Times
If your house was on fire and there were people shooting bullets through your windows, you would not queue up in the hallway and quietly wait for emergency services to turn up before calmly walking out the front door.
You would run, as fast as you could, in any direction, to get away from the violence and…