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| [size=34]Australia Made A Comic Strip To Stop People Seeking Asylum By Boat"Just serve me some curry," a Sri Lankan man says to his wife, in a comic strip created by the Australian government to deter asylum seekers.Posted on December 19, 2019, at 3:46 p.m. Hannah Ryan BuzzFeed News Reporter, Australia[/size]
It's not just grim horoscopes: the Australian government has developed an arsenal of creative advertising to discourage people from seeking asylum in Australia by boat.There's even a comic strip depicting a Sri Lankan man who pays a people smuggler for boat passage to Australia.In one panel, his wife warns: "Even the schoolmaster said Australia won't let anyone in now... regardless of race!" He replies: "Nonsense! I'm sure there's a way. Just serve me some curry."Later, the man finds himself clinging to a cage "at a regional processing centre on a small country in the Pacific". His children see his humiliating return to Sri Lanka on the news, and his wife complains that "all our hard-earned money" has ended up "in the water", as the man regrets his actions. The comic strip, posters and other pieces of advertising material — among them a bleak horoscope chart forecasting terrible futures for any asylum seekers who attempted to travel to Australia by boat — were revealed in a trove of documents released by the Department of Home Affairs under freedom of information law.Australia has a strict border protection regime and a zero-tolerance approach to seeking asylum by boat.In recent years, the country has spent millions of dollars on advertising campaigns in countries from which people regularly attempt to flee to Australia, creating stern videos, graphic novels and social media posts.The FOI covered printed advertising material created to dissuade people smugglers and asylum seekers offshore between 2013 and 2019.It is unclear from the release when each document was created or where it was circulated, but the 90 documents themselves offer some clues.Read on herehttps://www.buzzfeed.com/hannahryan/horoscopes-comic-strips-australia-asylum-seeker-advertising
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