It’s bad enough that Australia is being threatened by what is believed to be one of the worst global recessions ever known, but to be faced with a re-emerging influx of boat people at its northern shores is an added unexpected problem.
WITH multi-billion-dollar stimulus packages to boost a shaky economy and a possible deficit in next year’s federal budget, plus rising unemployment due to shutdowns or cost-cutting exercises in commerce and industry, the continued arrival of boat people with no means or trade skills to support themselves will bring back memories of the controversial massive influx of refugees in the late 1990s.
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