A ‘Dog Pound’ for a third world country
By JASON GIMA WURI After the signing of the refugee resettlement deal between Australia and Papua New Guinea last week Friday, it seems highly likely that Australia has finally succeeded in sending its problem to PNG. The big question Papua New Guinea should be asking here is, why does Australia not want to deal directly with its asylum seekers? We should be asking questions like, hasn’t Australia got a huge land mass enough to build countless detention centres? Or is it because detention centres in Australia are referred to as ”Dog Pounds” that they do not want any more of those kind of centres built on their land, instead sign deals with third world countries like Papua New Guinea? Concluding that we are seen as an underdeveloped country where a “Dog Pound” is fit to be set up. Whatever Australia has agreed to give to the people of remote Manus province in terms of development and infrastructure in exchange for the new deal in building a bigger processing centre to house an increased