I am not sure what the point is here. Are you complaining that a convicted drug smuggler died in a Portugese gaol? I would have thought this forum, would be cheering after all donât most on here support the death penalty for serious crime? if she had smuggled it in Malaysia she would have been hanged.
Scrapping the ECHR is absolutely the right thing to do Swimmy, replacing it with something that works. As far as illegal immigration is concerned, the articles covering how ârefugeesâ are abused which is the reason why so many illegal immigrants come here and never go home. Its the same for Poland and every other country who signs up to it.
The irony, of course is that immigrants who commit crimes (rapists and murderers) have been prevented from being deported thanks to members of the Labour Party (and the hard left) abusing the human rights parts of the ECHR to keep them here and criminals have been boarded onto planes for deportation many times, only to have the deportation overturned in the courts, thanks to Article 6 of the ECHR.
The irony now is that these same MPâs want protection in their constituency surgeries from being attacked (as we saw with the tragic murder of Sir David Amess and Jo Cox) by these same nutters they campaign to keep here.
The ECHR needs replacing with a UK version that works for us and allows our laws to protect our citizens, deporting those who are a threat to our society.
I think the posts are more about the huge numbers of illegal immigrants, and their Legal Reps, queuing up for the ECHR and putting forth all sorts of reasons why the immigrants should not be sent back.
The numbers staying on, in that queue gets more huge every day.
There are Hotels, full of them.
In Australia, do the powers that be allow the immigrants to stay on Australian soil, for months, whilst their claims are heard?
Changes need to made to the legislation to prevent smartarse lawyers from using it to prolong the deportation of foreign criminals with several appeals at the expense of the taxpayer. Its a defence lawyerâs charter for billing large fees. Whether you are talking about the Convention, the Commission, or the Court of Human Rights, they al begin with European so they are most definitely are to do with Europe. The problem with the legislation is that the drafting is so vague its open to interpretation which is their are so many appeals.
I am not sure what happens at the moment because there have been no immigrants of any sort since March 2020.
Previously asylum seekers were detained in places like the Villawood Detention Centre before deportation or were allowed into the community on bridging visas after initial investigations until their status is determined when they will either be deported or granted refugee status.
Asylum seekers get no assistance from the government at all but a bridging visa allows them to work or they get help from charities.
Just before the lockdown there was the case of the Biloela family whoâs application for asylum was rejected and the government attempted to deport them, they had a child in Australia and the local community wanted them to stay, They ended up in detention on Christmas Island but were recently granted another bridging visa after a lot of protests but are stuck in Perth many thousands of Km from the Queensland town they settled in.
I still donât understand the relevance of the drug smuggler dying in Portugal.
Australia is a signatory to the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights and 1951 Refugee Convention.
