If anyone wants to see an elected politician making a mockery of the political party they represent one should read what the French vice- president of the National Front, an openly anti-immigrant, Marine Le Pen said at a rally in Lyon a fortnight ago.
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Australia’s, Christmas Island houses the largest refugee detention centre where some 3000 refugees’ men, women and children wait to be processed. The controversial facility continues as the face of Australian harsh policy towards refugees. Earlier this week, forty-one asylum-seekers were picked up by the Australian Navy, and only one man made it to shore alone. It is thought that up to 100 people may have been on the flimsy fishing boat, and with rescue efforts hampered by the mountainous seas and bad weather conditions. The sad incident claimed the lives of at least 27 men, women and children of mainly Iraqi and Iranian origin.
Semra Eren-Nijhar 