I'm a pacific islander. I know most of those pacific islanders are Christians. I myself wouldn't want Muslims refugees to come and resettle on my people's land.

Thank you MP Ronnie Knight for supporting your people in Manus thats the way a leader should do to support the interest of his/her people.

I am from PNG. so come humble to strange land and people their will offer humanity like a good Samaritan. look these immigrants treat local nurses and local as inferior even when they try to save their precious life. what kind of human being is that? Did their father and Koran teach them how to live peacefully with people around you? we do not discriminate people and if we go a strange land we keep our mouth shut and appreciate little things they offer. I think these immigrants are cause of problem in their own country.

you can not blame Australia, i am sure no one wants to open their door wide open for stranger to enter their house

My Australian grandfather Tony Charlie was deported to Manus Island Detention Centre. Athe (Grandfather) Tony Charlie was a corporal in the Australian Army and was considered to be an Australian his whole life. He was NOT even a refugee. Athe's family moved to Darnley Island in the Torres Strait from a neighbouring island. This was before the Torres Strait Treaty, before relevant operations of the Migration Act, before the relevant zones were set up in 1978 and before the 1967 referendum. He lived on Darnley Island in the Torres Strait as a Torres Strait Islander with our family in accordance with traditional laws and customs. Athe's family moved to Darnley island before Darnley island was claimed to be part of Australia and the neighbouring islands were claimed to be part of Papua New Guinea. During his life as an Australian, he was a Corporal in the Australian Army and received an Australian defence medal and a certificate of service from the Australian Army for what he did for Australia as an Australian. As an older man, he had problems with drinking and was found laying down on the ground in Cairns Australia. An ambulance and the police were called and they assumed Athe was just a homeless drunk causing public nuisance. Athe had actually been assaulted in his head that day and was laying down as a result of a head injury. He was not homeless and had his own house, land and family on Darnley Island. The ambulance arrived with men in gloves who decided to shake him to wake him up. With his limited capacity due to the head injury and delirium the old man woke up frightened and thought he was being assaulted again. The old man tried to defend himself and struck the ambulance officer. He did not know who they were or what they were doing to him at the time. He was not on dugs he had a head injury. Athe was immediately charged by a police officer and sent off to prison in Cairns with his head injuries. He was further assaulted in prison, with obvious injuries to his head again. He was recorded on video by concerned family members trying to prove that he needed help and was unable to represent himself on any charges placed on him. On the video recordings while still in Australia, Athe who was once a well spoken proud man was now unable to put sentences together and his speech was very slow and limited. His physical body movements also very slow and off balance. Athe was then suddenly deported to Manus Island detention centre and was declared an illegal immigrant from Papua New Guinea. This has been reported to many departments including the department of immigration, No-one in the Government seems to care. Someone falsely signed his documents to have him deported. Several years have passed now and the old man has been wrongfully imprisoned overseas. Many family members from the Darnley Island community, including Indigenous elders have written statuary declarations explaining that Athe is a Darnley Island man. To this day we do not even know what has happened to Athe and if we will ever see him again.

Honestly, I feel sad for the new Guineans.

you said one of the poorest country and reported people survve on fishing and hunting to feed their families THATS FALSE REPORTING and I see some most latest cars there ...try to report fairly..PNG IS NOT POOR PERIOD

These are ,mostly economic migrants. They should try to process them within say one month and put them back on boats or planes to their original home countries.

It's not a given that if you're let into Australia, then all your family members will be too. If it's that hard to be separated why come in the first place? And yeah it's like Guantanamo Bay..just without the handcuffs and prison uniforms and waterboarding. These people are from Egypt. There is no war in Egypt now, they are simply coming to Australia for economic reasons. I would suggest if she feels so strongly about being with him they both go back to Cairo.

Eight years in Australia, and I am wondering why she is not giving the interview in English. Unless of course, she is speaking Arabic to reach Al Jazeera's larger Arabic viewers.

why cant she take him back to where he came from if she is really concerned...

Everyone here expressing their views on harsh treatments in the Detention Centre and why Australia will not allow refugees on their soil but no one is worried about The Island being used as a dump yard by Australia! Interesting people!

This refugees should also know in what circumstances Papua New Guineans live in.

Why didn't he and she go to another arab country

How you in a country you not supposed to be in and complain about healthcare

I don't these people are real refugee i think they are economy migrants.

Papuans, Melanesians, Australian Aboriginals, Polynesians, And Micronesians all need to form a Native Oceanian Union yeah

Very interesting but it's sad.

Aaron, good program. How did you learn Tok Pisin? Send me a PM, k?

It's obviously better than where they came from

She is a doctor and she is laughing about using expired equipment

How can you be a supervisor or manager when you can't even read. If you let them run the places, they will only hire their own family and friends and then the fighting starts. You can't help these people.

Why is an Australian refugee detainee centre on a Papua New Guinean island community without the local governments consent? Should be in Australian lands and much better funded.

These people need to go to the country that borders their country or to the nearest bordering country not in wartime to claim refugee status Not to the other side of the planet, just because you dont like your country does Not give you the right to move to any country you desire and pick n choose where they want to go, Australia has made it very clear that if you try to come Illegally then you will never see the shores of australia, these people should be sent back to the nearest bordering country to where they came from that is not in wartime conditions, thats how its supposed to work and these people cannot and will not be rewarded for their illegal behaviour......

Manus is not poor....your definition of poor is not the same here.

Give them asylum in qatar Al jazeera ...

Your brother should have stayed back!.

$491 million this year in aid that's more than $100,000 per person yeah

Australia has the strictest, and the best migration policy

Her brother should go back to Egypt

I think well done to Australian Government They show that how powerful law enforcement the r having

That woman ask for rights, but she did not get the english language right in 7 year...nice!

These people ❤️ have been dumped on our shores, why?????

Aaron Fernandes speaking tok pisin

People are crazy creating problems on each other, worst own Enemies 🤗 cultures are very different from each other,let alone landscape , environment, and the weather, my thing is very simple ,if you are not happy with where you originally come from, be great full , for where you are in the meantime,💚 for starters some people are fleeing their birth Countries for the wrong excuses 🤗 💙💚🧡✌️

His mistake was he came by boat. We let them in, thousands drown. We can go back to before. Very few come by boat for this reason. It worked. It hurt a few to stop the death of many.

Lets talk about the people waiting in line for years to enter Australia people who are in camps and went through the system, why should anyone jump the queue by boat to get ahead of others? lets talk about the family of 10 from Afghanistan whose father left a peaceful village against his extended family's wish for economic reasons, was given refugee status in Papua which was not rich enough for him,paid smugglers to take them to Australia, lost the whole nine members of his family, then he returned to Afghanistan alone, this woman is busily making demands for her brother to be released, she had no rights in her own country, now she's bothering the passersby

If u know that u come from a war stricken country why complain? Atleast u eat n can sleep in peace n no war. Do not expect that u can just go somewhere n walk free. U dont understand their culture n then u will cause more problem for ur host n bring ur culture of war to us.

... coming from very rich countries - really. Am I wrong or are these a bunch of complainers .....

They are shameless. This is terrible. Help these people, don't punish them.

Not sure if the moustache was a great idea, steve

This is the Aboriginal Land no one considering their approval, people from every where think this is a place of refuge for them. Come on these Aboriginal live in a third world country in the community. Come on !!! don’t come here and think it is easy like that. Go and help the indigenous and acknowledge they allow you to stay here or go back to your country if you’re not happy about Australia.

They have to self develop. They cannot depend on Australia to provide for their daily and annual needs. Australia/New Zealand, Indonesia will never do what's in their best interest. They must do whats in their best interest and abandon "Cargo" mentality. You have to take stock and develop self-sufficiency. Take stock of natural resources and skills and negotiate better terms. Welcome to the world!

Make some new jobs beautiful manus people. I Wish I could live there. Tourism research is big.

He took the risk, send him back and if she keeps on send her back to the silly old boot

Can't they go back to their homeland?

Lady take your brother and go home to Egypt and try dictating to your own government, wealthy countries cannot take in everyone who is poor, and stop making demands which you could not make in your own country

The lady crying about her brother at the detention center in Manus makes my head boil. They don’t belong to Australia,Australia belong to the Aborigines and the British people who first got there and developed the country. Although it was brutal in the beginning but at least the British developed the soil of Australia for it to be the way it it today

We want to come to Australia and live in a house like you do, but we want your tax payer to pay for it and feed us and our family free of charge.

If it's so bad they can "Refugee" back

He is welcome to return home tho, Australia owes you nothing

Sure wish America had balls like Australia

See what I mean, Australia threw them on an island and they're economy is really picking up

A bunch of liars.

It's alright saying they are all menial jobs but how many people are qualified to do anything else people can't expect to be just given a job

If they are Egyptians, they should better seek asylum from brother Arabs, the rich countries of the Middle East, like Qatar,KSA or UAE.

I've just remember the Papua New Guinea President asked help to the Philippines President Duterte for the improvement of education their people because the Australian government denied their request, decade ago. Just now I've learned they helped a bit for road and infrastructure in exchange for the asylum seeker community or refugees.

This is not the Melanesian way, sick Australian Politicians

Why don't Arab countries take in refugees?

Pathetic,to incarcerate people in this way

Use research tourism charge people money to do research. Keep foriegn people of your waters. Your such a lovely I want to help. Use Christianity and get big from people that want preach. Preach preach. Pray for yous. Detainees is not the way forward.

green shirt and kakky pant

This is a black nation and also Papua New Guinea

Looked like cat for dinner.

CHINA CAN DO BETTER RIGHT NOW ALL MUSLIM COUNTRY ARE UNITED TO HELP THEIR FELLOW MUSLIM COUNTRY SO SAD.

Who would trust a muslim?😂

Research the asylum seekers

The doc is a dwarf hahaha