Western Australian Senator Michaelia Cash has used a late-night Estimates sitting to suggest detained asylum seekers may be accessing child p-rnography.
Last night in the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee, Senator Cash asked a series of question of Immigration Department officials about condom and p-rnography use by detainees. An anti-asylum seeker spam email currently circulating lists “sewerage systems blocked with condoms” among outrages perpetrated by detainees, noting they had been used for gay s-x.
Condom vending machines are available in immigration detention facilities. They are also in NSW jails and have been trialled in Queensland — although detention for asylum seekers is not intended as punitive or correctional. Cash demanded details of the number and location of condom vending machines. She followed that with questions about detainees accessing p-rnography online.
“Is the department aware of any instances where a detainee has accessed p-rnography, including child p-rnography?” Cash demanded of Departmental Secretary Andrew Metcalfe. Officials denied any knowledge of asylum seekers trying to access child p-rn.
Immigration Deputy Secretary Jackie Wilson told Cash: “I’m not aware personally of the child p-rnography. And because Serco, as I said, does its reporting on sites that are hit, they can actually block sites if it’s identified that there’s a frequent access to acertain site that’s inappropriate.”
Asked Cash: “What action is then taken against the detainee? Considering in our own culture, if you’re at work and you access p-rn online, you’re pretty much looking at dismissal.”
Metcalfe replied: “These folks aren’t at work, they’re at home — it’s a home we provide for them.”
Cash: “That’s a very interesting distinction. A very interesting — and I will consider pursuing that one further.”
Metcalfe: “This is their home for the time being.”
Cash: “Yes. Is there a difference between accessing unlawful child p-rnography and just surfing the net for p-rn at home?”
Metcalfe: “Well certainly Senator, we do not condone or permit any of that … because simply it is contrary to law regardless of the place.”
When you engage in a little Hoo Flung Dung- best to know what you are talking about. Senator Cash clearly does not. Asylum seekers phone and computer communications are monitored by SERCO and DIAC and on occasions ASIO. They do not have privacy. If someone accessed child porn then SERCO and DIAC are also accessing it because they check the sites.
As for the condoms from the rampant sex- what can one say to Senator Cash- In ya dreams.
The few gay men in detention hide their orientation because it has caused them so much grief in their home countries and they are terrified.
Have women no right to control their fertility?
These are just lies promulgated to denigrate asylum seekers for political gain.
Where is the proof? Show me the THOUSANDS of condoms puleees Senator?
Do Liberal party politicians get together behind closed doors and ask:
“How can we use suffering asylum seekers for our political advantage this week?”
or “What can we ask that will grab us a headline, by using refugees and asylum seekers again?”
or
just maybe someone should be telling them: “You look like bastards every time you try to use these people to score some political points”.
Has Senator Michaelia Cash any idea how petty, cruel, and manipulative she comes across playing this card? Does she really believe that people will stand with her and cheer her on and say ‘what a wonderful caring insightful politician this is!’
Who on earth advises these people?
I thought it was reported, that “the party room” was derisory/dismissive of that idea of “using Muslims for votes” that “Reith-Morrison” “didn’t even” propose?
And who is this “Senator Crass”?
What an “Ironstine” – these people are “at work”? As she sees it?
Sometimes I wonder just who should be in those “asylums” so loved of “Abbott’s Rabbits”.
ABBOTTS RABBITS – i love it- thankyou on a bleak day.
they certainly have the minds of rabbits but not half so cute.