The Canberra Times
Letters to the editor (extract)
Thursday, April 27, 2000
Zimbabweans and Kosovars
I HAVE to strongly disagree with Australian Democrats Leader Meg
Lees. If the Australian Government were to offer temporary refuge to
displaced white farmers from Zimbabwe ("Door open to white farmers",
CT, April 22, p.1), I very much hope in the name of fairness and
even-handed treatment that they get exactly the same treatment as
did the Kosovar refugees. I deplore the cold, Scrooge-like mentality
that sent the Kosovars back under conditions that the media has
brought to us. If the Government were to act with greater liberality to
Zimbabwean refugees then there ought rightly to be a great outcry
about the discriminatory and shabby way we handled the Kosovars
and a demand that the Zimbabweans be decanted instantly to
whatever part of the country appeared safe enough to dump them in.
What was good for the one should be good for the other. If we treat
white English-speaking Zimbabweans better than we did the Kosovars,
what on earth will it look like to the rest of the world?
KEN SMITH
Queanbeyan
Doubly blessed
OF COURSE John Howard will welcome Zimbabwean
migrants/refugees (Letters , April 25). They're doubly blessed, aren't
they? White and farmers!
DAMARIS WILSON
O'Connor
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