Baulkham Hills Tamil says refugee plan won't stop the boats
Baulkham Hills resident and Tamil community spokeswoman Sara
Nathan says sending asylum seekers to Nauru and Manus Island
will not stop them getting onto boats and heading for Australia.
Mrs Nathan said she was very happy refugee numbers would be
increased following the release of the Asylum Seeker Report on
Monday.  ''It’s a welcome change,'' she said.  ‘‘But I’m really
disappointed that they seem to have some inconsistency in
sending people to Nauru and leaving them for a long period in
Indonesia.  ''There are people there who have been assessed as
refugees by the UNHCR and they’ve been waiting for 10 years.
''They’re at the end of their tether and they’re getting on
boats because sitting in Indonesia waiting doesn’t seem to be
helping them.''  Mrs Nathan described the report as ''a crazy
political thing''.  ''They’re trying to make it difficult for
people,'' she said .  ''If they took those people in some sort
of order and people knew exactly h