Well, if you're going to create a discussion on a particular topic, I wouldn't choose an article so bereft with errors and shocking biases as a reference point.
Since this article likes to unjustifiably and erroneously slander my country, I feel the need to defend it.
According to this article at least, Australia is a Apartheid, anti-Asian, right-wing dictatorship, which is directly responsible, or at least complicit, in every major 'genocide' since the second world war.
Oh, and apparently we're still trying to eliminate indigenous Australians, despite for the past 40 years heading on a path of reconciliation and spending vast amounts of money on social services to bridge the health and education gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians.
Apart from having a very extreme ideological bent, the article is also full of errors, asylum seekers do receive substantial benefits from the government. And while it is true that successive governments have used the asylum issue in order to provoke xenophobic views in the community for their own political gain, the problem is not as pronounced as the article makes it seem.
Most asylum seekers sent to centers for processing have their applications for asylum approved anyway (90%+). And if the author thinks that Australia is a country where people of different races are completely segregated, well then I doubt that he has even been here, considering that Australia is probably one of the most culturally diverse nations in the world.