i wonder
how much truth isin this report .. VICE news report after all
and/oir, as much truth in the Sydney Morning Hearald/AUSTRALIA, saying that Australias going to close down 17 of its island detenntion centres
heard no more of that report???
be damn incredible if they are !!!
European Governments Are Arresting Refugee Crisis Volunteers
By Mark Wilding
May 3, 2016
From the column
'VICE Long Reads'
Photo: Team Humanity
From the end of Eric Kempson's driveway, the features of the Turkish hillside across the sea can be made out clearly with the naked eye. A former safari park keeper, Eric moved with his wife Philippa to the Greek island of Lesbos nearly 17 years ago. Now an artist, he sells sculptures and paintings to tourists from a workshop at their home by Eftalou Beach.
"We did have a bit of a quiet life for a while," he tells me. Not any more. The Aegean Sea separates Lesbos from Turkey by less than six miles here, a distance which must seem tantalizingly short to the groups of families and young men who gather on the opposite coast and prepare to make the crossing to Europe.
If all goes well, an hour's boat ride is their only barrier to a new life, one which they hope will be free of the pain and despair which has driven them from homes in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and beyond.
The brevity of the crossing lends it an air of safety which can be grossly misleading. For anyone out on the water in an overloaded dinghy with an unreliable motor, a small change in conditions can quickly lead to tragedy. This year alone, the International Organisation for Migration estimates 375 people have died attempting to make the crossing.
Boats carrying refugees have been landing on this stretch of coastline since Eric and Philippa first arrived. For many of those years, the landings were sporadic and went largely unnoticed by most of the island's population. That all changed around 18 months ago, when the escalating conflict in Syria saw millions of people displaced from their homes.
https://www.vice.com/read/refugee-crisis-volunteers-prosecution-lesbos-kos-idomeni
AUSTRALIA
land to the Chinese
allwoing the Americans more military access, in the same region ...NT top end of Australia
letting the French of all people build your Submarines
Australia going to be needing New Zealand to send there non existent everything over to protect you ..
Starting a fleet of 12 offshore patrol vessels in 2018, a fleet of Frigates in 2020, and the Subs soon after.
