I was busy from this morning. I had to explain what happened to each and every person I met. Most people got angry and expressed sympathy for me. They are nice. The most interesting response came from one of the guards I often have a chat. He said that my case was better than his wife's.
His wife is a lawyer, had a big compensation case. There was a six weeks trial. Then a judge had a heart attack and died! Wow. They have to start all over again. That costs must be enormous and the court will never compensate. I know that in some cases, parties agree that the next judge is to make a decision by reading the transcript of the trial before the dead judge. But given that his wife's case is a compensation case, probably the plaintiff does not have money while the defendant has big money and the defendant will not agree with the trial on papers in the expectation that the plaintiff cannot pay to the lawyer for another trial and the case goes away. Oh, that's a real disaster for the plaintiff... Don't you think that the costs abandoned because of the dead judge should be paid by the Government??? It's all the dead judge's fault.
Another interesting reaction is from one of my Tamil friends. He was one of the 13 Sri Lankan Tamils who was supposed to have been deported on the same day as I left here for Brisbane. We unexpectedly ran across in the oval in Villawood! Both of us lost for words for a while! Anyway, amongst 13 Tamils, somehow, only his flight was canceled and he was sent back to Villawood. Why? He did not know. But the Immigration will not cancel his flight for no reason so there must be some reason he cannot be sent back.
Having said so, the Immigration might have canceled his flight for no particular reason since the Assistant of the Coffee Shop got a visa and got out of the centre while I was away. Remember the coffee shop assistant? He was here with his wife. His wife got a visa about two weeks ago but his visa application was knocked back. He went to the AAT and was again knocked back while I was away. Then the next day, the Immigration came to see him and gave him a visa!!!
Everyone is complaining about it. If there was no reason for the Immigration to refuse to grant him a visa, it should have given him a visa in the first place rather than separating him from his wife. If there is a good reason to refuse as affirmed by the Tribunal, then why did the Immigration give him a visa on the next day to the AAT's decision affirming the Immigration's original refusal decision?
Villawood drives us crazy.