ASYLUM SEEKER MYTH BUSTER 2010

25 KEY FACTS TO HELP STOP THE FREEZE ON HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ASYLUM SEEKERS

Here are the myths... make sure you find out the truth before the next election!

MYTH 1: We no longer have children in detention centres.

MYTH 2: We no longer have many asylum seekers in detention centres, now that there is a Federal ALP Government.

MYTH 3: It makes good financial sense to keep Christmas Island open to process asylum seekers.

MYTH 4: The ALP Government invests an equal amount of money in caring for asylum seekers in the community, as it does to keep asylum seekers in detention.

MYTH 5: Australia is being flooded by asylum seekers coming by boat and has lost control of its borders.

MYTH 6: Australia is one of the most generous countries in the world when it comes to the number of refugees we accept into our country.

MYTH 7: The freezing of the processing of Afghan and Sri Lankan asylum seeker cases is lawful.

MYTH 8: Asylum Seekers in the community receive four times the income from Centrelink that Australian Aged Pensioners do.

MYTH 9: The majority of asylum seekers come by boat to Australia.

MYTH 10: Australia takes its fair share of the world refugees and displaced people.

MYTH 11: Australia already takes too many refugees.

MYTH 12: Asylum Seekers are placing Australia at risk of an unsustainable population boom.

MYTH 13: Australia is being flooded by asylum seekers compared to other Western Countries.

MYTH 14: We have more people seeking asylum by boat due to ALP being soft on asylum seekers.

MYTH 15: Australia gets more asylum seekers than other Western Countries.
MYTH 16: Australia is experiencing an unprecedented increase in the number of people seeking asylum by boat.

MYTH 17: Australia is being swamped by Refugees from Afghanistan.

MYTH 18: The ALP Government has ended the Pacific Solution that the Howard Government created.

MYTH 19: There is no difference between the ALP and the Liberal Party when it comes to their policies on refugees.

MYTH 20: We have a more generous refugee and humanitarian program under the ALP Government than we did under the Howard Government.

MYTH 21: Asylum seekers are illegal immigrants.

MYTH 22: Asylum seekers don't need to come all the way to Australia, they could stop in another country along the way.

MYTH 23: We are seeing more people coming by boat because of a softening of our border protection policy.

Myth 24: Asylum Seekers who come by boat from Indonesia just don't want to wait their turn in the queue.

MYTH 25: People seek asylum in Australia to get access to government support and live the good life here. Asylum seekers who can afford to come by boat are economic migrants.

Get the facts!