AIDS and TB Must Be kept Out of Australia 15/3/2006
Refugees, migrants and people on Humanitarian Assistance must all be screened by Australian Health Authorities and kept out of the country if they test positive to TB, AIDS or any other deadly, infectious disease.
This is unless we want to commit national suicide.
Our Government's first priority should be to protect us, the Australian people. It is of no help to any one to allow the spread of diseases for some of which no one has a cure.
The health system is already under siege with long hospital waiting lists, rocketing health insurance and a shortage of doctors and nurses - why does our Government want to burden it more?
Furthermore refugees from Africa should be going to countries where they have affinity in language, religion and culture instead of bringing them halfway round the world to be "strangers in a strange land".
If this contravenes any United Nations Convention, let Australia withdraw from that Convention.
100% health screening for immigrants has always been One Nation policy. As various Liberal ministers go "One Nation" with recent statements on sharia law and multiculturalism, maybe the prospect of next year's Federal Election will
make the total exclusion of disease carriers become Coalition immigration policy as well.