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RE: A Refugee Currency - integrating refugees to Australia's rural areas.
From what i understand most of rural Australia is rather uninhabitable.
Would it not be punishment to send people there? I mean if people chose to live there than by all means, I'd probably like it, for a while.
I understand that wasn't a solution like you wanted.
How about one of the smaller islands of the coast? Beautiful and habitable. What was gonna be built in rural parts of the mainland could it not be built on an island?
But than again an island is like segregation.
Just give them the same treatment all Aussies new to the workforce get. And some free culture/language training.
Make sure they know the word cunt isn't a bad word there.
Australia is uninhabitable from a European perspective. Desert populations within India, the middle East and Africa see things differently. Consequently the refugees who come from desert nations will contribute greatly with their knowledge on how to grow food in this particular environment.
Settling refugees in rural areas can replace offshore detention centres which are a breach of humanitarian law.
If you ever visit rural Australia you will experience the way in which people live out there, its not an urban existence, its a rural one, satisfying in body, mind, spirit and soul. Connected to the greater nervous system; nature. It is healing. And it will be healing for refugees.
Outback Australia versus a refugee detention center ? ? ?
A choice? I have been to the outback, I WILL take the DETENTION CENTER EVERY time I am given a choice ! ! !
My point is the CHOICE to live there. As i said if you want to fine. but being forced maybe cruel.
And i do know that people love living there. I loved living in the canadian wilderness, not as deadly but equally remote.
Its just the freedom to choose is my issue. Modern technology can make anywhere habitable.
oh heaps of inhabitants, brown snakes, taipan snakes, funnel web poison spiders red back spiders, crocodiles = like alligators on PCP etc.
Outback Australia gets some of the hottest temperatures ever recorded, I bet these refugees will be so thankful for such a new place to call home . . .
I think the best comparison is someone having to move out of their mums basement and being given a cardboard refrigerator box and being told they can sleep in the box on the courthouse steps every night ! ! !
Australia is not that bad, don't believe the hype and marketing. :)
I am born and raised on a coastal farm and then my teenage years in Brisbane. I have spent time in central or outback Queensland, outback Queensland is some serious bad arze bush ! ! !
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/climate-weather/photos/10-of-the-hottest-places-on-earth/australias-badlands
Truly if someone picked me up and said I would have to make a new life in rural Australia; I myself would simply start looking for some policy maker to literally kill ! ! !
Australia is the lucky country down under as long as you never move more than 99 kilometers from salt water. . .
Its a lovely country as long as you do not want to do much there lol, too hot, to dry; to forgotten . . .
But you simply have gotta love the people, if oyu took the people and the Red Dust out of Australia you would have nothing left : )
Welcome to Steemit and yes I did enjoy your article, just amazed anyone could be so stupid to dump a ton of Syrians into outback Aussieland, amazing ; )
I think refugees will be grateful for any form of hosting until they can make their own choices on where they wish to live.
LOL I am thinking you have not seen outback Australia LOL . . .
The Outback is HELL on the Rocks...
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/climate-weather/photos/10-of-the-hottest-places-on-earth/australias-badlands
No one has any real clue how cruel and relentless this bad arze bush is until they experience it first hand, I have been there and I think I still need time and counselling to get over the experiences ! ! !
I grew up on a cattle property 300 kilometres from Brissy and both sides of my family grew up out west. It doesn't suit everyone that is for sure, but others fall in love with it. Thanks for your comments
After Cloncurry/ Mt Isa, Emerald, Kingaroy is almost a resort to me . . .
LOL who knows, maybe it was that hole in the Ozone layer; but the Sun has a lot more burn in it today than it did decades ago ! ! !
Nice to meet you, welcome to Steemit...