Re: Good Morning Saturday - It's Australia Day
Originally Posted by
Ray Cathode
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Should I buy a dinghy and try again? Papua-new guinea might do?
No good, all those places are closed. Now they just shoo you back to where you came from. If you arrive by air you find yourself in places like Villawood which are basically just prisons and you end up owing the Australian government your very expensive return fare plus board and lodgings.
It's no fun being an asylum seeker these days.
The best way is to get a backpacker visa which allows you to stay for a couple of years in return for working in remote areas. Then you just disappear off the radar, there are 50000 illegals mostly British and American in Australia at any given time who have overstayed their visa.
Border Force
never raids the backpacker hostels of Kings Cross so you are pretty safe