Regardless of who or what they are and how they get here the last thing arid, water deficient, environmentally fragile Australia needs is more people.
If we need/must/want to accept more refugees then reductions must be made to immigration and births, natural or unnatural.
We MUST have a sustainable and stable population.
NOT unlimited population increase for business`s and its own sake.

Isobel, a heartfelt argument. I tend to view it from a legal perspective. The wanton disregard for our obligations under the Convention and later Protocol on Refugees is symptomatic of a broader trend observable in the so-called western democracies. We wage illegal wars on behalf of our "great and powerful friend". War crimes are committed. Yet the word "accountability" seems to have disappeared from the lexicon.

Our mainstream media are no more than cheerleaders for this conduct. The current misreporting over Ukraine followed the sustained misinformation campaigns that date back, at least in my memory, to the Vietnam War years.

Not the least of the appalling results of government policies and media cheerleading is that a majority of Australians think the refugee policy is a "good thing". It is all part of the same general degeneration of our moral, ethical and legal standards. Allowing Morrison and his ilk to get away with this appalling conduct may be seen as the canary in the coal mine. Ultimately it is the end of democratic society governed by the rule of law.

We do not need welfare for lifers as well as the problem of 95% on most boats were men.

The present Government is fixing Australia after the last incompetents let in over 50,000 of them.

The Convention is over 50 years old and does not take the current climate of world events into consideration as is demonstrated by the country shopping refugees.

All the land illegally occupied by perpetrators like this land MUST be put in control of UNO for administration.Australia is one of such areas which was invaded by blood thirsty devils and hunted killing its inhabitants and want to stop people running away from their own land made the battle field by the same people who are responsible for human miseries all over the world.

Blackthorn > almost all of Australia's humanitarian intake (a tiny 13,750), will be selected from countries of first asylum.

And so it should be.

> one that has spiralled Australia down to the basement of human depravity.

A personal opinion from a bleeding heart. Worth nothing.

> the phrase, 'we do not report on operational matters,' trotted out at every turn.

Exactly, otherwise the bleeding hearts would report to the enemy on ways to get around the efforts to stop the Queue jumpers & help the people smugglers.

> A few treads lower and we forced asylum seekers on board orange lifeboats and pointed them back at Indonesia.

It worked, what more can I say, much to the disappointment of the bleeding hearts.

> Nauru and Manus Island, in conditions likened to a gulag,

Much better than the UNCHR Camps though.

> The pace of processing fostering in the minds of detainees a psychological horror without end.

It worked, what more can I say, much to the disappointment of the bleeding hearts. Though because of their Religion most of them have psychological problems before they got to Indonesia.

> Immigration detention psychiatrist Dr Peter Young stated that treatment of asylum seekers on Manus and Nauru was, 'akin to torture,' and 'deliberately designed to cause harm.'

No the opinion of a Western Based Philologist with Western Based assessment tools. Not valid in this case.

> Settled in Cambodia, anywhere but Australia, and the implications have to be that we are white and we are supreme,

Thank God for that. These people by their own admission are incompatable with Western Society.

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> as was poignantly depicted in Robin de Crespigny's,The People Smuggler.

A nice fictional novel.

> We are being systematically conditioned into accepting the cruel treatment of others as necessary and inevitable.

Another false statement designed to gather sympathy by the bleeding heart society.

> They are illegal's, queue jumpers who should be made to wait their turn. If strong measures aren't taken we'll be swamped and, worse,

Could not have said it better myself. Thank you.

> Such myths are promulgated by our government and reinforced in the media

No they are not. one only has to look at the European model to see what the end result is.

> even as they are refuted by organisations such as the Refugee Council of Australia and shown through concrete evidence to be false.

A Bleeding heart Society led by the loony Greenies who cry at anything & everything.

> In an ideological war, in which a dominant set of beliefs is imposed upon citizenry as taken-for-granted reality,

Unfortunately for you it is a reality. You may not like it but truth is truth no matter how much you wish to deny it.

> it matters not that the humanitarian among us counter the ideology with truth.

You are right, we really don't care how much your sensitivities are hurt by the Ideology of truth.

> those compassionate and broad-minded among us protest through all legitimate means at our disposal.

And, like all loonies, should be ignored & rightly so.