Serious concerns are being raised by the Fiji government that citizens travelling to Australia are exaggerating the situation in Fiji to try and manipulate the system and find an easy way to live in Australia.
Following the death of 36 year old Josefa Rauluni at the Villawood Detention Center on Monday, Permanent Secretary for Information Sharon Smith-Johns told Radio Australia that the critics of the Fiji government in Australia are painting a negative and incorrect picture of what is happening in Fiji.
Smith-Johns said people are using this tactic to get a protection visa just so that they can remain in Australia.
Smith-Johns said former Fiji citizens in Australia not to be fooled by the false information being circulated about the situation in Fiji by the Fiji Freedom Movement in Sydney.
She said they need to come and see for themselves that life is normal in their homeland.
She said the death of Rauluni is now being politicized by the Freedom Movement for its own agenda.
Story by: Roneel Lal
Fiji citizens exaggerate situation to gain asylum
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