Kelly Higgins Devine (ABC) speaks with Pamela Curr from the Refugee Advocacy Network that has 120 people and 30 families offering accomodation to people in KP Prison, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Yongah Hill (WA) detention centres. #HomeSafelyWithUs
I find that many ABC journalists come from a mainstream and right-wing perspective … for example the questions put to Pamela Curr assumed
1/ that refugees, given a chance, would disappear into the community illegally.
2/ that the woman who provides accommodation for refugees must be doing it for a selfish reason.
For example Kelly Higgins-Devine put to Silva from Brisbane's bayside suburbs who provides accomodation for refugees in her house: “What’s in it for you?”
3/ People are being sent to Christmas Island because they are criminals
4/ Refugees have the benefit of mobile phone access
5/ Australians, as a rule, are not generous.
Photo: KP Prison in Brisbane
