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Isn’t it sickening that a sick baby with a severe respiratory illness born in Australia has to take Court action to stay in Australia. I always understood that anyone born in Australia would automatically become an Australian national.
That is apart from humanitarian considerations. How cold and more heartless can Morrison still sink to?
Apparently Australian citizenship of local born babies depends on the date of birth.
We used to be known for having big hearts and welcoming generous arms, especially those in trouble because of war. Now Morrison is fighting tooth and nail to deport a local born baby and his mother.
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
For some reason, every time when I see his face I imagine a man in a black uniform with a swastika armband.
Perhaps I need therapy. 🙂
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hph, it’s an understandable confusion. Whereas Eric Abetz does in fact have Nazi roots, Morrison has developed a real talent for evil, but seemingly unaided. I think he’s channelling Ruddock, but with extra evil.
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His interview on 7:30 tonight was just that. He seemed to derive pleasure in the misery of others. Didn’t see, to get the refugees flying directly to Australia thing.
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If these arseholes were worth a pinch of crap, the fate of a single mother and child would not be the substance upon which a minister of the Australian government would be so aggressively concerned. A decent policy would enable a simple bureaucrat to apply humanitarian principles and ensure that the morally correct thing was done. Only an idiot has difficulty understanding that every rule needs to be applied with common sense and no rule exists without the need to consider when it is inappropriate to apply that rule.
So, this government and Morrison in particular are clearly stupid, inflexible and have no sense of proportion or importance of the individual issues – as well as being indecently lacking in the milk of human kindness. May their gods judge them accordingly.
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I would add that this is the same pack of arseholes that was paying Australian couples to pump out babies.
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Where’s Jules? He was worried about this poor mother and baby!
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Taking a Bex and having a good lie down I understand.
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Yes, I think the remnants of the White Australian policy are still clinging on. We, while working in Holland for three years during 1973 -76 wanted to travel back to Australia where I had lived since 1956. All our three children had been born in Australia and had Australian passports.
To our amazement we had to re- apply for migration, go through the whole process, x-rays, clearances from Dutch Government, job security etc. I and Helvi had European passports. I was an Australian citizen but not Australian national.
No matter that our children had been born in Australia, we had to start all over again.
The fear of foreign is truly well embedded even though the only real Australians are the indigenous. They are far more inclusive.
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My Australian friend whose Australian passport says he is Polish born in Germany was child to a father from Poland and mother from Ukraine, each a zivilarbeiter, slave labour in other words forcibly removed from their home and taken to Germany. He has never set foot in Poland. The decision is one of convention and patriarchy that he is Polish. Humanitarian consideration (for all else that was not humanitarian during and at the end of the war) was behind the massive drive to occupy Germany after the Second World War and arrange for the assistance of the millions of people needing medical supplies and personnel, housing, transport to where they could go and/or chose to go.
Why the child has to be an Australian national to receive the best care we can provide a child is not clear to me. I think the issue rests on the child being ‘locally’ born and needing care until (under current legislation and according to the status of the family) evident recovery.
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Well Gerard, I recall a particular manager at the company I was working at probably 20 years ago. He was from the US and on a two or three year visa. During that time his daughter was born here in Australia. The child was not entitled to Australian citizenship then. They did try to obtain citizenship for the child but were unable to. Unlike many other countries where if they were born there then citizenship would be granted.
It could well be that the High court grants in the child’s favour and the may create a precedent I which case that could be why he’s fighting it.
Morrison seems heartless here. Just grant the child citizenship on compassionate grounds who knows he might win a little kudos for his actions. I suspect he’s not bright enough to realise any of this.
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