Peter Bowden's recipe for increasing the real estate bubble, rents and homelessness, and eliminating the need for 457 visas.
Beauty mate!

Apart from that, the most effective way to reduce refugees globally is to make politicians actually accountable for their actions. One novel way is creating a gauge by which to judge their successes and failures in real terms, based on the numbers of refugees, then applying penalties for failure. One penalty that springs immediately to mind, is emergration to a refugee camp in Jordan for a life term!

Nothing wrong with this article, apart from the total lack of logic, the evidence-free assertions and the usual Left wing hand-wringing.

Those Bowden sees as "refugees" we can more correctly see as economic invaders. Indeed, Europe provides the best evidence, with two thirds of the "refugees" being young males with no accompanying women or children and it is clear many of them are ISIS infiltrators.

European nations have built their economies, cultures and societies over centuries using hard work, intellect and Christian-based ethical and cultural norms.

Thanks to Merkel, millions from the Middle East, North Africa and beyond have turned up expecting to be fed, clothed and housed, free of charge to themselves. In other words, they have effectively confiscated large chunks of Europe's historical wealth. In return, there has been a catastrophic increase in terrorism, violence and sexual crimes against women and children. Thanks, Angela.

The most obvious point to be made is that these people are culturally incompatible with Western democracies and have nothing to offer but violence, disruption and cultural decay. Merkel has poisoned Europe's well.

Bowden has a "vision of what Australia was, what it is now, and what it could become. That vision for the future is that Australia, of all nations, could be the first to show the world that people of many creeds and beliefs can live together in peace."

Bowden's evidence to support this statement is non-existent. There has never been and never will be a Western democracy that can take on large numbers of people whose cultural map is Islam. Full stop. Every example contradicts Bowden. Islamic immigration is absolutely not comparable to the waves of European and Asian immigrants who have settled here and in other countries and integrated. The 27,000 Islamic terrorist events around the world since 9/11 are proof enough.

Bowden says "other countries are doing so much more than we are." Yes, and they have so much more terrorism, crime and violence as a result.

And there are many countries, including some in the Middle East, who are doing far less.

It's hard to believe really, that people could hold views like this.
2 points
1).The best way to resolve the refugee issue is to stop the violence their are fleeing from.
2). Australia has enough problems of it's own to fix without importing anymore. Unemployment hitting 20-30% in some areas.Perhaps the problem is those people have the wrong colour skin for the good professor to acknowledge there could be a problem.

We cannot, and should not, take anymore. We should not have taken those we have already taken. The whole 'refugee business' is a scam perpetrated by the Left and Islam to bring the West to its knees - and it is working. The West is going down the gurgler fast: unemployment, debt, crime (much of it due to 'refugees'). We would be better off without this old man and his nonsense, too.

I'm Sorry, but have to disagree!

Simply put, we stand at a crossroads,where one path leads to endemic generational poverty, replete with overcrowded cities, soup kitchens etc; and hoards of homeless hobos. And where those with anything left to lose (a eternally shrinking, I'm allright jack, cadre) will shelter in luxurious Gated gulags, designed to keep the great unwashed, masses out?

This is the likely future we face by buying the simplistic, feel good psychobabble, in this garbage entreaty?

The other road leads to a high tech future where megafactories roll day and night with hardly a human hand involved, and where the population will be paid to consume and engage in leisure activities, military/civil service/planning designing or learning.

A place that's jealous of its borders and the virtual utopia it could be for those who've built it?

The second option will not require any real influx of immigrants, but will be more than well served by natural growth via native born Australians! And likely to be a slowly decreasing population paradigm?

Those refugees (genuine) we still accept, will need to be able to prove their status, ability to fully integrate and real intent, via covertly deployed high tech space age lie detectors!

This is the only viable means we actually have to eliminate the possibility of another less harmonious culture forcing its way in then replacing us, ours and taking what other generations have sacrificed all for to create and build! We don't need another Cologne or another Indonesia!

Moreover, this high tech future will be one where we just do not need more people and where the world would be best served if they stayed put and resolved the differences that divide them or allow others to persecute the innocent!

And given the obvious template is a formerly war torn Cambodia, (now a democracy!?) with the dictatorial Pol Pot, and state sanctioned genocide? It remains the only viable solution for an already seriously overpopulated planet; at least until we begin the next mass migration to the stars?
Alan B.

It looks like Alan B is smoking the same stuff that Peter Bowden is smoking.

I thought that stuff was illegal.