Perhaps, an employment situation is really dramatic in Australia with non-UK-linked biologically if even Iraqi refugees are ready go back yesterday:

Resettled Iraqis left feeling dumped· Simon Mann
· August 5, 2008

IRAQI interpreters given asylum in Australia after working alongside Australian troops during the occupation of their country say they feel short-changed by the Federal Government since arriving in Australia two months ago.

The interpreters, who faced persecution in Iraq and were branded traitors by many of their countrymen, feel they have been dumped in Australia with little help or prospect of work.

They say they were promised jobs, immediate health care and moderately priced housing.

However, most have been told since arriving that they will need to retrain to work in their existing professions. Some, with family health issues, have been placed on public hospital waiting lists, and those who have been housed are paying almost half their
Centrelink payments in rent. Many say they have had to scrounge for furniture and clothes from church and charity groups. Several families are still living in motels.

A small number of the Iraqis, many of whom are trained teachers and university educated, became so disillusioned that they are believed to have returned to Iraq at their own expense. Others say they plan to follow, putting themselves at great risk from vengeful militia, according to their colleagues.

The interpreters, who worked for Australia’s defence forces and embassy staff, earning as much as $800 a week, understand that they are being treated the same as refugee arrivals, but say they feel insulted. The only jobs on offer are low-paid cleaning jobs.
“We did not come from Darfur or places like that begging for help,” one interpreter, Zeki, told The Age. “We worked for the Australian Government in jobs that put our families at great risk. No one was ever going to kill us in Iraq for just being refugees.
They wanted to kill us because we were working for the Australians.”

The Federal Government announced in April that it would provide refuge for 100 interpreters and Iraqi support staff and their families - all up, about 400 people. The decision recognised a moral obligation to protect the Iraqi workers.

Australian soldiers and security consultants working in the Middle East had expressed grave fears for the safety of the Iraqis should they be left behind.

The first group of about 150 people arrived in Australia in May and were sent mostly to capital cities. They included about 30 families now living in greater Dandenong, Werribee and Geelong.

The last of the Iraqis arrived at the weekend. Some of those flown to Australia include the widows and families of workers killed by insurgents.

Rural town of Bendigo, by M. Kerjman

The Age spoke with several of the interpreters in Melbourne and by telephone with others in Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth. Some would only speak anonymously, fearing retribution from the Government.

Others asked to be identified by their first names only in reports that were likely to be published online and that could be accessed from Iraq.

The Iraqis feel slighted that no one from the Australian Defence Force welcomed them to Australia or had been in touch since they arrived. Instead, contractors who provide resettlement services to the Immigration Department had collected them from local airports and were their major point of contact.

“No one from Defence has said, ‘Thank you, great work, thanks for helping us,’ ” said Ates from Brisbane. “In Iraq we worked together. Here they don’t seem to want to know us.”

However, Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon said: “I am very happy with the manner in which Defence discharged its responsibilities in providing safe passage to Australia for the locally engaged employees, and neither I nor my office has received any complaints since their arrival in the country.”

An Immigration Department spokesman, Sandi Logan, said the Iraqis were being resettled according to humanitarian visa guidelines. He said he was confident immigration officials would have been clear
about what was being offered.

“This is a very well-rehearsed, very professional service that goes into refugee camps and does this sort of processing,” Mr Logan said.

“We have Australian cultural-orientation classes that are run in the refugee camps. These would not have been supplied in these circumstances because, essentially, you’re in a war zone. So (the Iraqis) may well have missed out on some of the cultural-orientation processes that would normally be provided … but that would be the only thing.”
Some of the Iraqis concede that their hopes were raised by Australian soldiers with whom they had developed close ties, rather than by any official promises. But others claim they were misled during interviews in Iraq, with officials implying that rents would take only 20% of their welfare payments until they could secure jobs.
The Iraqis appear to have fallen victim to Australia’s rental accommodation squeeze. Most have been placed in privately owned housing and are being charged market rents of up to $1300 a month.
One interpreter living in Adelaide, Talib, said he would return to Iraq with his wife and five children “tomorrow, if the Government would pay the fares”. He said he had contacted relatives in Iraq asking them to raise money to fund his return.
“Others have decided to go, too,” he said. “Life here is very difficult for us and not as they told us in Iraq. The soldiers told us we were very lucky and that we would live like kings in Australia.
“But in Iraq we had jobs, we had houses, we had cars. Here we have none of these things, and the prices are so expensive that we have just enough for rent and food and clothing for the children. I do not know how I will pay my other bills.”