Comments on: Why does Australia run a concentration camp on Christmas Island?

By: Monica R

Monica R — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 10:15:37 +0000

It’s not a concentration camp. It is a detention centre for people trying to enter the country illegally. We have major problems because we have a vast coast line with no land borders as other countries do. USA and the UK also have these problems but because they have land borders it is easier to control. Don’t judge before you have all the facts from both sides – it is a hotly debated issue in this country. The detention centres are definitely not concentration camps – that is called poetic licence.

By: the ox

the ox — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:41:36 +0000

ho hum what a lot of dribble

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:32:48 +0000

Why does the USA run a concentration camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba?

Both governments, US and Australian, would say it’s to keep undesirables out of their countries.

By: tentofield

tentofield — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 06:47:54 +0000

Australia mistreats its refugees and has done so for years under Little Lying Johnny and his ratbags. Christmas Island is not the only prison for refugees, there are others in Sydney and at Woomera. I think the one on Nauru no longer has any prisoners.

Our treatment of refugees, our allowing David Hicks to rot and be tortured by the USA in Guantanamo Bay for five years without charge, our detention of a man without charge for 12 days and then threatening him with 25 years gaol for allegedly giving someone a SIM card all make me ashamed to be Australian at times.

Roll on the election so we can get rid of this mob of intolerant bigots.

By the way, Tom Kenneally wrote “Schindler’s Ark”. The name was changed for the movie.

By: tuppenybitz

tuppenybitz — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:27:30 +0000

if they didn’t try to illegally enter Australia they wouldn’t be there
I’m sure that they have food and medical care,you shouldn’t believe all the crap you hear

By: tonalc1

tonalc1 — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 04:22:35 +0000

It’s part of the “Pacific solution,” the name given to the Australian government policy of diverting asylum seekers to detention camps on small island nations in the Pacific Ocean, rather than allowing them to land on the Australian mainland.

Grim.

By: fefe k

fefe k — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:58:02 +0000

Concentration camp: A place where people get concentrated.

Nothing evil about that. Would you prefer to have all those ilegal asians roaming the landscape? Nooo, we cant allow that to happen.

So, they get intercepted, sent there and later what, repatriated? God i hope so!

By: pandora

pandora — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:28:39 +0000

Ive never heard of this.

Hmm.?

By: Isis

Isis — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:55:36 +0000

What are you talking about. Australlia doesn’t technically own Christmas Island. The only place worthy of being compared to Nazi concentration camps is American prisons.