Hello All,
I am going to talk about an idea, which involves the marrying of two points of need.
The refugee crisis and the dwindling rural culture of Australia.
We have the basic needs for survival here in Australia; food, water and shelter.
We have the capacity to provide these basic needs to others.
We live in comfort, yet we are scared, fearful of losing what we have and fearful of what we don't understand.
Therefore initiative for great change is minimal.
We have many layers of evidence for the need of change;
And if we do not take the hint from the global evidence of Climate Change, the refugee crisis and the banking crisis the message will become personal in the form of stress, cancer, mental illness, auto-immune disease, etc.
All these issues are to influence the changes we need to make.
And the issues will become more personal, more intense, more aggressive until we each be the change we wish to see in the world. - Gandhi Ji
In Australia we need the resolution to make these changes.
To break free from our unsustainable mold of habits.
And who can help us?
Who is resolute in making a change?
Who has been personally effected by these issues?
Refugees
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And in Australia with our ever increasing urban population, climate change, food market monopolisation, expensive labour and cheap imported food who is being effected?
Australia's Rural Communities
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The heart of Australia's post colonisation identity are crying for the need for change.
Small family farms are feeling the pressure as markets and unsustainable mass production of food squeezes them out of their homes; depopulating rural areas and therefore decimating the community left for the remaining few.
I have friends and family in rural Australia and when i mean rural i mean hundreds of kilometres from the closest city.
They have a small voice in our Australian population and are but a whisper in the ears of our political leaders.
And they have been screaming,
"Refugees will you save us!!"
And finally they have been heard.
The National Farmers Federation (NFF) and the Migration Council Australia (MCA) backed by the Friendly Nations Initiative (tasked in integrating the Australian government's meager pledge to relocate 12,000 Syrian refugees into Australia), have heard our farmers cries and are running a 12-month pilot to integrate 12-15 refugee families into our rural communities.
This is great!
However, the farmers still need the means to employ these refugees.
How?
Cryptocurrency
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A Refugee Currency minted by the farmers as a means of energy exchange.
And what about unsustainable farming practices that damage our delicate ecosystem?
The capacity to mint will directly depend on how sustainable and environmentally friendly the farmer's management systems and practices are.
The more sustainable
the more currency minted
the more jobs for refugees
the more cultural diversity
all contributing to the elimination of fearful assumptions and the growth and health of rural communities.
This idea is at the early stages of development.
Please post questions, ideas, and feedback. I would love to hear it.
I shall also keep you all posted on the project.
Thank you
I am sure all the refugees who are not under-cover terrorists will thank you for taking them from where-ever and basically putting them in such a remote hell as rural Australia.
Australia has almost every known dangerous bad-arze animal on the planet so it is reasonable 60% will die in the first year alone, that should endear Aussies to their surviving family members.
Put another way rural central Australia is as remote and unforgiving and maddening as Antarctica but instead of ice you have world record droughts and famines; surely this idea of taking destitute people who have committed no crime and dropping them out of the frying pan literally into the FIRE ! ! !
I have been to central and western Queensland Australia and I would not consider sending Charles Manson there, never lone some victims of prejudiced victimization from their own homelands . . .
Truly I have lived in such locations more than once and I can assure you there are very good reasons why their suicide rate and substance abuse problems are so high...
I'm from Australia and I used to think you couldn't live in the deserts until I came across this Ted talk on how to reverse the deserts:
The only way we are going to reverse the deserts is through more labour, which is what we are screaming out for.
Have a look at the wool boom from the late 1800's to the mid 1900's to see how prosperous these rural areas were when the price of labour was low and the community was abundant.
Lack of community and financial pressures contribute more to the suicide rate than living there. Most farmers do not want to move until they are forced into foreclosure by the banks.
From what i understand most of rural Australia is rather uninhabitable.
Would it not be punishment to send people there? I mean if people chose to live there than by all means, I'd probably like it, for a while.
I understand that wasn't a solution like you wanted.
How about one of the smaller islands of the coast? Beautiful and habitable. What was gonna be built in rural parts of the mainland could it not be built on an island?
But than again an island is like segregation.
Just give them the same treatment all Aussies new to the workforce get. And some free culture/language training.
Make sure they know the word cunt isn't a bad word there.
Australia is uninhabitable from a European perspective. Desert populations within India, the middle East and Africa see things differently. Consequently the refugees who come from desert nations will contribute greatly with their knowledge on how to grow food in this particular environment.
Settling refugees in rural areas can replace offshore detention centres which are a breach of humanitarian law.
If you ever visit rural Australia you will experience the way in which people live out there, its not an urban existence, its a rural one, satisfying in body, mind, spirit and soul. Connected to the greater nervous system; nature. It is healing. And it will be healing for refugees.
Outback Australia versus a refugee detention center ? ? ?
A choice? I have been to the outback, I WILL take the DETENTION CENTER EVERY time I am given a choice ! ! !
My point is the CHOICE to live there. As i said if you want to fine. but being forced maybe cruel.
And i do know that people love living there. I loved living in the canadian wilderness, not as deadly but equally remote.
Its just the freedom to choose is my issue. Modern technology can make anywhere habitable.
oh heaps of inhabitants, brown snakes, taipan snakes, funnel web poison spiders red back spiders, crocodiles = like alligators on PCP etc.
Outback Australia gets some of the hottest temperatures ever recorded, I bet these refugees will be so thankful for such a new place to call home . . .
I think the best comparison is someone having to move out of their mums basement and being given a cardboard refrigerator box and being told they can sleep in the box on the courthouse steps every night ! ! !
Australia is not that bad, don't believe the hype and marketing. :)
I am born and raised on a coastal farm and then my teenage years in Brisbane. I have spent time in central or outback Queensland, outback Queensland is some serious bad arze bush ! ! !
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/climate-weather/photos/10-of-the-hottest-places-on-earth/australias-badlands
Truly if someone picked me up and said I would have to make a new life in rural Australia; I myself would simply start looking for some policy maker to literally kill ! ! !
Australia is the lucky country down under as long as you never move more than 99 kilometers from salt water. . .
Its a lovely country as long as you do not want to do much there lol, too hot, to dry; to forgotten . . .
But you simply have gotta love the people, if oyu took the people and the Red Dust out of Australia you would have nothing left : )
Welcome to Steemit and yes I did enjoy your article, just amazed anyone could be so stupid to dump a ton of Syrians into outback Aussieland, amazing ; )
I think refugees will be grateful for any form of hosting until they can make their own choices on where they wish to live.
LOL I am thinking you have not seen outback Australia LOL . . .
The Outback is HELL on the Rocks...
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/climate-weather/photos/10-of-the-hottest-places-on-earth/australias-badlands
No one has any real clue how cruel and relentless this bad arze bush is until they experience it first hand, I have been there and I think I still need time and counselling to get over the experiences ! ! !
I grew up on a cattle property 300 kilometres from Brissy and both sides of my family grew up out west. It doesn't suit everyone that is for sure, but others fall in love with it. Thanks for your comments
After Cloncurry/ Mt Isa, Emerald, Kingaroy is almost a resort to me . . .
LOL who knows, maybe it was that hole in the Ozone layer; but the Sun has a lot more burn in it today than it did decades ago ! ! !
Nice to meet you, welcome to Steemit...