well, essentially its crap and has been proven to cause mental anguish, exacerbate trauma and most people who were given TPVs in the past were eventually granted full protection to remain in Australia permanently. It involves assessing an asylum seeker, finding that they meet the criteria of being a refugee but then suggesting, just in case things get better in your country of origin we will only give you a 3 year visa and at that point, we'll re-assess to check whether you are still a refugee WTF ?!?!?!
TPVs were introduced in 1999 under Howard. Psychologists, doctors, experts, refugees and Australians who cared campaigned hard and they were abolished in 2008 by the Rudd Government.
The people I knew on TPVs told me they couldn't enrol in a degree as they may not be around to finish it, they were hard to employ because they couldn't guarantee how long they would be in the country, they found it very hard to start relationships because there was every possibility they would be removed from Australia. They were living their lives in limbo, feeling insecure, unsafe, finding it hard to have hope and not trusting of Australian authorities.
Frighteningly these people were trapped - many were men who had made the dangerous journey here by sea - they were not entitled to apply for their family to be reunited with them in Australia and they had no rights to re-enter Australia if they left. So we saw young children and wives commonly separated from their father / husband. And now Abbott, who is apparently a man of faith, of family values, who believes in the "Aussie spirit" is suggesting this is a good way to treat people. ABSURD
Check out a fantastic film, Molly and Mabarek - set in Young when the abbatoir there was open and when Afghan refugees found a real home.
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