The Herd - 77%

Captain Cook was the very first que jumper.

This is still relevant today. Now more than ever.

I fucking love this song. The only musical voice I remember speaking loud and clear during those dark dark days.

Because in all likelyhood your mate in ireland didn't have his immediate family tortured and his land and property possesed by a dictator?

break down walls. thought Earth was over this shit. fucken hell

Okioo. It's disappointing that your friend has faced the difficulties getting into the country, but there is a difference here. The majority of the asylum seekers are actually refugees, meaning that they are fleeing violence in their own country. I have a mate who was in Woomera for 9 months, he left because his Dad was a police chief in Afghanistan. But, when the Taliban took over there, they wanted to kill him. That's why he came to aus. Not, because he just liked it here.

but aren't there like leagal ways, i do not understand. I am german myparents brang when i was like 2. I am aussie, i just do not understand

The problem is not getting into Australia legally. The problem is getting out of whatever living hell you are in without dying. Nobody just jauntily walks across the Iranian border, flipping the middle finger to the guards as they go.

Once you're in a boat escaping, you kind of have to get OFF the boat somewhere.

bali was an inside job

"Refugees and stateless persons are protected by the Fourth Geneva Convention to the same extent as civilians in occupied territories"

You know those illegal aliens? They're not actually illegal, they are unlawful. Unlawful means that they are not bound by the laws of any specific country. The Howard government had a tendancy to confuse "unlawful" with "illegal".