Malaysian solution could and should be killed by the Greens

While the devastating impacts of the Malaysian deal to ship asylum seekers between Malaysia and Australia are well known, we are disappointing of comments and actions by many so-called pro-refugees activists. The activists are calling on wide range of sides to the debate to stop the deal from going ahead, but ignoring to demand the Greens to take decisive and practical action to stop this horrific deal.

“Some pro-refugees activists, who are mainly either open or subtle Greens members, are cowardly demanding actions from Malaysian parliament, UNHCR, Labor party or even the Liberals to kill the deal, but stop short of demand the same from the Greens” said Jamal Daoud, spokesperson for Social Justice Network. “These activists know very well that the Greens is in the position to kill this deal almost immediately”.

The Greens politicians need to stop their campaign of lies and deceptions by calling on the Labor government to abandon the deal, while they are part of this minority government, one way or other. The Greens is equally responsible of all gross human rights abuses the asylum seekers could suffer if the deal goes ahead.

“It is shameful to see the Greens lagging behind the Liberals in demanding to kill this deal, on human rights basis. While we know that the Liberals are trying to squeeze the government in the corner mainly for political scoring reasons, we understand that the Greens has the ultimate power to kill this deal and preserve Australian reputation as country that respects basic human rights”

“It is deeply alarming that the Greens is resorting to the cheap “numbers’ game” when dealing with this highly humanitarian issue. The Greens allegation that they do not have enough politicians in the parliament to kill the deal is not more than a cheap lie. The Greens sole MP, Adam Bandit, could kill the government altogether if the Labor insists to go ahead with its highly regressive and highly inhumane policies. On the other hands, if the record numbers of Greens politicians in Federal parliament is not enough to kill this issue that was opposed by all opposition politicians, would not this send clear signal to voters that voting for the Greens is not more than a waste of vote?!”

The SJN condemns the cowardnece of the so-called pro-refugees activists who stop short of naming and targeting the Greens to enforce them to act to end highly inhumane practices. These activists are in fact serving Greens interests to grab more power but not serving the interests of asylum seekers or to strengthen the real Multiculturalism.

If these activists are seriously concerned about the devastating impact of this deal, they should target the Greens to honor their pre-election commitments. These activists should start target Greens politicians by all means to enforce them to kill this deal, even if it would mean killing the government. We may start organizing such campaigns and possibly rallies outside Greens offices.

On the other hand, we will make sure that voters know about these coward action of the Greens in the next election.

For media contact, Jamal Daoud can be contacted on 0404 447 272.