Abbott gov lies - asylum seekers "illegal"

I dunno what bloody drugs the Abbott gov is on. They're now trying to influence the way we talk about asylum seekers arriving by boat. It appears "boat people" wasn't a demonic enough name. Now the new Immigration Minister Scott Morrison (who I personally consider a complete racist who'd be better off in the 50's instead of preaching that crap to us now) has instructed his staff and dept to call these people "Illegal detainees". 

Immigration Minister Scott Morrison has instructed departmental and detention centre staff to publicly refer to asylum seekers as ‘‘illegal’’ arrivals and as ‘‘detainees’’, rather than as clients.
The directive has been criticised as a ‘‘profound’’ shift by a leading asylum seeker agency, which says the new terminology is designed to dehumanise people. 

In an email to detention centre staff, obtained by Fairfax Media, a department official writes: ‘‘The department has received correspondence from the minister clarifying his expectations about the department’s use of terminology. Accordingly we as [sic] that our service providers also adhere to the below instructions.’’ 

These include calling all people who arrive in Australia by boat ‘‘illegal maritime arrivals’’, a marked change from the more moderate language used under the previous government. When it came to office in 2007, Labor dropped the Howard government’s description of asylum seekers who arrived by boat as ‘‘illegal maritime arrivals’’, calling them ‘‘irregular maritime arrivals’’. It said this was done in recognition of the fact it is not illegal under Australian domestic law or international law to claim asylum. The new directive reverses this. 

The email to detention centre and Serco staff also instructs them to describe asylum seekers being held in detention centres in Australia as ‘‘detainees’’ rather than as ‘‘clients’’, as they had been called under Labor. Read more 

Don't mind the fact they're in now way "illegal", being as they're seeking asylum, and the only reason they're "detainees" is because they get locked up in jail here (many times including their children) because the gov has called them "illegal", and/or insinuated that somehow they're terrorists in disguise as evil boat people about to destroy our way of life......     bla...........

This is a complete and blatant lie. It wouldn't stand up in a court of law. Yet here we have the Immigration minister virtually dictating the language to be used. By it's mates in the press at the very least. Yet it's wrong. It's a fabricated lie.