The Age
PROMINENT Australians should mentor African refugees and provide references for jobs and housing to stop them becoming increasingly marginalised, says Victoria's Australian of the Year candidate, Berhan Ahmed ...There we go again: diversity is rejected by the people, they don't want a bar of it. And so the call goes out for some intervention. It's the same story with Aboriginals. Average Joe turns away and the government has to send in the army to fix it. Time after time, the public votes with it's feet. And still the governments don't listen. They keep bringing in the immigrants. And white folk keep turning away. The "system" cannot make up for it (unless it goes into fascistic overdrive). Tell him he's dreamin.
Under his mentorship plan, retired professionals would educate African refugees about local laws and social mores and provide character references for jobs and rental accommodation. "If these people don't have someone to connect them they will always remain on the fringe," he said ...
... "The crisis is not something of Africans' making, it's a system failing," he said.
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