Oh dear Melissa, you’ve got it SO wrong!!

Scott Morrison is the last person you should be lambasting.

You are so amazingly off-track. Condemn Rudd for opening up this whole can of worms and severely criticise Gillard for not quickly implementing strong enough measures to fix this fundamental and enormous error of judgement by our former PM, to which she was a major party. But for goodness sake, don’t condemn those who want to see an end to it all, as was achieved under Howard’s policies.

Why on earth people like you just want to promulgate, if not greatly increase the rate of onshore asylum seeking, is beyond me.

Surely those with passionate humanitarian concerns should be directing them through Australia’s formal offshore immigration and aid programs.

The bottom line is surely NOT about how well we can treat all those who come to our shores or our waters seeking asylum, but rather how well we can contribute as a nation to the world’s refugee, quality-of-life and sustainability issues.

PLEASE, broaden your horizons…. and get right away from the incredibly narrow and terrible misguided notion that if our politicians advocate anything to make life anything other than as easy as possible for onshore asylum seekers, that they must be in a race to the bottom!

This country is in terminal decline , mass immigration or anything else that accelerates the process and breaks the Centrist monopoly is wholly desirable from the point of view of a revolutionary.
As I keep saying to liberals and Leftists, it's no problem for me but it's a problem for you, Fascism and Patriarchy goes down a treat with Third Worlders ;)

Ludwig

Life has never been easy for asylum seekers coming to Australia, but the current government hit a new low in the using the misery of indefinite mandatory detention in some godforsaken camp an active policy tool under the “no advantage” policy

Ludwig, why do you continually bleat that we have to be cruel to people who are by and large actually refugees who have a well founded fear of death, torture or persecution if they go home?

Should the neighbours around Syria force them all back because those who can't leave are still in danger?

The law states clearly that everyone has the right to seek asylum and that is nothing to do with our migration policy.

Hi Mellisa,

A de-facto open borders policy, will design in never ending population growth, until a crisis occurs to halt it.

On current trends, we are now looking at a 40-50 million population, within your lifetime.

Many "left" population boosters are in denial over the link between population growth and habitat/species loss .

However, growth in human numbers, is identified as the major driver of habitat loss and species extinction by : Sir David Attenborough , Melinda Gates , Bindi Urwin , CSIRO, Australian Academy of Science , ACF, WWF and the United Nations.

As a refinement of your case, we need to fit the refugees into a balanced migration program . Currently, 80,000 leave Australia permanently each year, so the refugee intake would fall within this number.

Best regards,

Ralph

a well founded fear of death, torture or persecution if they go home?
Marilyn Shepherd,
All of them ? Even the brainwashed soldiers of religion/ignorance ?