Hmm, perhaps a better way to put it would have been "nice, ordinary white Australians", since I think that's what she was actually getting at. Boat people (who actually represent something like 0.001% of immigrants to Australia) are constantly used as a political football over here; if you listen to the political debates of the major parties, you'd be forgiven for believing that Australia might collapse if one more boat gets through. It's ridiculous.
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Date: 2011-06-03 01:28 am (UTC)