The agreement between Australia and the US to swap genuine refugees with each other represents a new lowpoint in Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers. 

It signifies our governments contempt for the Refugee Convention and our failure to abide by the spirit and intent of the Refugee Convention. It shows both our countries governments simply continuing to use asylum seekers as political pawns for their own self interest. 

This is ballot box politics at their worst, each country thumping its chest proclaiming they are tough on refugees and border control and all it shows is what heartless and inhumane governments we have and far we have lost our way when it comes to human rights in our countries.

Whats that old saying? A measure of a society is how it treats it most vulnerable people, if this is still so then our governments should be ashamed of themselves for betraying the very fabric of our democracies.