Australia has committed 143 human rights abuses and begun to ruin our national reputation. Nobody wants to be called racist. Unfortunately, many people around the world call Australians exactly that. If you look at Australian history, you will see that our white ancestors were not at all racially tolerant, which has left us with a bad reputation as racists. We have worked for many years to change the way the world sees us as a country, but now we have undone all that hard work by deciding to bring the boats back. However, in doing so, we have not only been called racist, but we have also broken international human rights laws that we swore to the United Nations not to break, severed relations with other countries, and pushed many of these innocent asylum seekers to flee. on the verge of suicide. We recently decided to do one of two things with asylum seekers: The first thing we're doing is: when a boat is intercepted or reaches an island owned by Australia, it could be sent back to its country of origin. Desperate to increase the likelihood of boats being turned away, the government has sort of "changed the borders" of Australia, saying that these islands are no longer part of Australian soil, and if you land there, tough luck, you're going back At home. The second option is that if they reach Australia, or sometimes an Australian-owned island, there is mandatory detention. Australia is one of very few countries to adopt mandatory detention. An Australian government website states this chilling fact, leaving the reader to wonder just how bad the conditions are in these centers: “Australian law sets no standards for the conditions or treatment of people in immigration detention.” we deal with asylum seekers... half of the document... From 2007-2011, America allowed 278,850 asylum seekers into their country, which has a population of 313.9 million, while Australia allowed only 40,320 asylum seekers, with a population of just 22.68 million. Why waste the opportunity to employ these people, force them to live in taxpayer-funded detention centers, and then subject them to cruel treatment? Wouldn't population growth help increase GDP, create more job opportunities, and strengthen international relations with our multicultural lifestyle? It makes absolutely no sense. Australia really needs to understand the consequences of what we think is a harmless act, and let's realize that it's not right to treat human beings in this way: if we think that carrying out these cruel actions is right, and then we point the finger at countries like North Korea for their terrible prison conditions, this does not make us a nation of hypocrites?