Thursday, January 11, 2018

Quarantined

Everyone knows about the refugees trapped in Papua New Guinea, but how many Kiwis realise that the people of New Guinea and of Melanesia in general are trapped in their own countries, because of the very tough restrictions on migration from the region maintained by Australia, New Zealand, and other Western nations? 

I talked last year with BFM's Mackenzie Smith about the quarantining of Melanesia, and about the case for allowing guest workers from the region to settle permanently in this country. The interview's now online here

5 Comments:

Blogger Richard said...

An interesting interview. Australia and NZ don't really have such a great policy of immigration.

How do you think Labour will respond to these issues?

The newsmedia tend to focus on certain areas. We don't get much except in a few expensive journals or glossies. Perhaps you could write something for the Listener?

Even a series on the Pacific in general. Or one or more of the other papers and magazines.

I have to admit I had no clear idea where the Manus Islands were. And I don't know much about the Solomons or Vanuatu.

Good you are getting people to hopefully shift their focus from say Europe or other obvious "hot spots" (not that these other 'main centres' are not important, they seem to overshadow those 'at our back door' as you say.

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