FOR over 100 years Australia has been selected as a country to seek safety and asylum from persecution for many peoples.
In the late 1930s and 40s for Jewish families, at the end of the Second World War, and in the 1950s for Polish, Hungarian, Yugoslav and Italian people.
In the 1980s we received asylum seekers from China after the horrors of Tiananmen Square and other forms of persecution.
Later, pe...
