Newsgroups: aus.politics
Subject: Re: Open LETTER to Oz Immigration
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 06:53:42 +1000

Hello Mr Havewala !

In a message of 11-Sep-92 you wrote:

 KC>      An Open Letter to: 
 KC>      ------------------ 

 KC>      Mr. Gerry Hand, 
 KC>      Minister of Immigration 
 KC>      Parliament House 
 KC>      Canberra.                                 Sept 1992. 

 KC>      Dear Sir, 

 KC>          I am an Austrlian Citizen, having settled here since 1988. 
 KC>     By law I have every right and privilege as any other Citizen of 
 KC>     Australia. I thank you for that. 

 KC>         My Mother, Mrs. Gospi Homi Havewala is my only surviving  
 KC>     relative in the world (she has no other issues). Yet she was 
 KC>     not allowed by the Department of Immigration to remain under 
 KC>     my care, when she came here on my fathers death in 1991. The 
 KC>     reason? She was not 60 years old but only 58. She was forced 
 KC>     to go back to India against her will, although she desired to 
 KC>     stay with her only son. Even an appeal was disallowed. I 
 KC>     wrote twice to you, once to the Prime Minister, but to no 
 KC>     avail. <Your hearts were made of stone.> Humanitarian grounds 
 KC>     are no longer present in the Immigration law, they have been 
 KC>     removed mysteriously after 1990. No special consideration was 
 KC>     given to her individual case, but the letter of the law 
 KC>     applied. 

 KC>         She is now languishing alone in Bombay, India; and I 
 KC>     desire intensely to bring her back to me. But your policy 
 KC>     seems to be that of delay and torture, for even the migration 
 KC>     application she filed by registered post with the Australian 
 KC>     Embassy in Delhi has received no paper receipt from the 
 KC>     Embassy after one month. Because of the bureaucratic fumbling 
 KC>     of the Immigration system, a mother who has a right to be in 
 KC>     Australia is denied the company of her son, a Citizen of 
 KC>     Australia. An old woman who has a few years of life left. 
 KC>     Time I want to spend with her. 

 KC>         Because the Labour government made a decision in favour 
 KC>     of Chinese students, valid permanent residents and 
 KC>     naturalised citizens of this country are forced to pay. Why 
 KC>     should we be forced to live apart from our dear and loved 
 KC>     ones? Are we not citizens? Are we not humans? Why are there 
 KC>     no humanitarian grounds today in the immigration law? The 
 KC>     world will be the judge of the unfairness of Australian 
 KC>     immigration if humanitarian clauses stay erased from the 
 KC>     laws. 

 KC>         Bring humanity back to your department, Mr. Hand. Enough 
 KC>     is enough. LET MY MOTHER COME BACK. 


 KC>     Sd: Porus Homi Havewala, 
 KC>         Citizen of Australia. 

    Without wanting to appear racist you may be a naturalized citizen of
Australia but the fact remains that your mother is not. The Australian
government removed the access to Australia for a specific reason and that was
that too many people where rorting the system. with the only winners being the
people who migrated from other countries and there families.

    I have no doubt that you have valid reasons for wanting your mother to come
to Australia, but from what I can tell every one in your situation has a valid
reason why they should bring someone to Australia from another country. The
argument from the Australian government is that you have to stop somewhere and
they have elected to stop at the current level where everyone has to apply for
immigration on the grounds of how they can enhance Australia. Lets be honest now
what can your mother offer us. More than likely she will cost us money in a time
of reccession by taking up valuable hospital space. All this without making a
contribution, I can hear you now saying that you will look after her. Well I
will tell you a story....

    My wife works in an elderly citizens care facility here in Melbourne.(The
Kingston centre) And she has told me a number of stories that all started out
like yours. One of them was a Vietnamese grandmother who was brought to
Australia on family relief. her family
got her to Australia and within a week she was in the Kingston Centre because
they where unable to cope with her. Now it turned out this lady had Syphillis
ghonorea and heppatitis B and as far as I'm concerned she shouldn't of even been
allowed into Australia. The net result of this lady coming to Australia is that
it ended up costing You and I about $90,000.00 to look after her as she lived
for 3 years. 

    Now if I was cynical I would say that the real reason that her family
brought her to Australia was because the standard of care in Australian
facilitys is better than in Vietnam. I have other similar stories to this if you
are interested and as an Australian citizen I applaud the governments actions to
stop this rort. If we want Australia to grow on the world stage then we need to
stop this sort of thing.

    While I'm on the soapbox the Australian government also needs to stop people
from other countries coming to Australia arriving in Australia and straight away
going on social security. I work for a TV rental company and I see the migrants
every day on the dole especially from New Zealand and Ireland but they do come
from elsewhere. It has to stop that is all I can say..

    I included your full letter so people could see what I am so incensed
about.



         --==<< Cheers! Greg >>==--
         A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN OF AUSTRALIA
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