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me: is there no justice!!!??? is there no mercy???!!! can't these fools see what gigantic boobies she has?!?!?! onwards, to the sad but true story: NATIONAL
Thrown out of the country
Kicked out ... Model Brendalee Doel in tears at Sydney Airport as she recounts her ordeal, minutes before boarding her flight.
By Frank Thorne
To TV viewers, she is the bar girl in the Cougar bourbon drinks advertisement. But Canadian model Brendalee Doel was in Europe last night, having left Sydney in tears on Wednesday after a battle with immigration officials which included three days in Villawood Detention Centre.
Doel says she was forced to share a cell for three days with 11 Muslim women after what she describes as a "technical hitch" with her visa. Now, the 24-year-old model says she has been banned from Australia for three years. It has cost her, she says, a modelling career and a part in The Matrix Reloaded, starring Keanu Reeves.
Doel believes she was the victim of a politically correct attempt to show the world that Australia's tough immigration laws apply to everyone, not just boat people and asylum seekers. @media print {.nopr {display:none}} advertisement
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In the Cougar advertisement, she plays a barmaid with the bourbon brand on her top. One customer is so overwhelmed, he orders five glasses of the spirit.
On November 13, 10 officers arrived at her Paddington flat. The Montreal model said: "You would think I'd done a murder or something, the way I was treated. There was a knock on the door at 9.30 one night and there were 10 immigration officials standing there. "I almost fainted. I protested that I had a year's visa, but they told me in a threatening way that I was in big trouble."
Doel had lived in Australia for 18 months, then went to Japan for a holiday, and returned on an ETA (electronic travel authority) visa, which she believed allowed her to work providing she renewed it every three months. She admits she forgot to renew it. "Just two days after my first three months was up, the immigration people were at the door," she said. She was taken to immigration headquarters at The Rocks. "They also asked me if I had been working. When I said 'No', they said 'What about your TV commercial?' I told them I didn't get paid for that, but, of course they didn't believe me."
Holders of ETA visas are not allowed to work. A spokeswoman for the Immigration Department said work was defined as "any activity that would normally attract remuneration". She said: "Anyone who breaches these guidelines must be detained.''
After questioning, Doel was taken to Villawood Detention Centre. "I felt like the biggest loser in the world to be in there because I come from the best country in the world - Canada.
I felt sorry for the people in there. The place is dirty and overcrowded. It stinks and they don't even have a garden to exercise and walk round in," she said.
The authorities demanded a $10,000 bond and set the condition that Doel bought a one-way ticket out of Australia.
"I'm used to rubbing shoulders with celebrities at A-list parties. Suddenly, overnight, I was being treated like an Afghan refugee, vilified, belittled and forced to share filthy accommodation with other women who could hardly speak English.
"It was a living nightmare. People shouting and wailing day and night in foreign languages. There were people in there crammed into the accommodation half the size of my lounge room from Indonesia, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, you name it.
"I was being treated like some kind of Canadian boat person. I'm hoping my lawyer can sort it out so I can get the ban lifted. Perhaps I should send John Howard a bottle of Cougar."
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ahhh, that's what you get for going to a bloody bloomin' boisterious place like Australia :)
.tom
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