KH & individual, forgot to mention it before but the aboriginal & torres strait islanders i know personally are not just black fellas but respected tribal elders whose opinions are shared by a huge majority of their tribes.

I have to admit, after reading and participating in debates on this subject, my views have changed somewhat. While I have always advocated treating others with courtesy and compassion, we do have some right to reciprocal consideration.
It's one thing to welcome visitors into your home, but quite another to have strangers show up on your doorstep uninvited, expecting and demanding hospitality. I'm imagining that scenario in real terms. If the person on my doorstep was fleeing persecution or was in genuine need, then of course I would help them in any way I could.
But what if they just showed up expecting me to house, clothe and feed them, simply because they preferred my lifestyle to their own?
At the end of the day, these people are illegal invaders. No smugglers, of any description, should be allowed into our territorial waters.
All boats not having a legitimate and legal right to enter our territory should be turned back.
I agree with Baygon. Instead of continually increasing our legal immigration intake of 'skilled and professional' workers (to keep wages down), we could increase our refugee intake many times over, and still be better off. If our companies need more skilled workers, let them train more, instead of stealing them from countries who need them more than we do.
Let the refugees apply for hardship visas at our embassies. Let them be processed in their country of origin, before making the journey here.
Let them be allocated by local governments, rather than Federal or State governments. Many rural and agricultural areas would welcome them, -provided they comply with certain standards, as Hazza suggests. (I certainly wouldn't mind swapping Alan Jones for good farm labourer.) The Greeks and Italians who flooded to our shores after WW2 were welcomed and treasured in agricultural communities.
As to the 'whitefella/blackfella thing, I asked a mate about that many years ago. He said “mate, you're all bloody boat people as far as I'm concerned.”

Formersnag- definitely an important point

Grim; I would probably disagree with cutting our skilled/regular intake of migrants, as these are usually our best (and skilled persons we are desperately short of). The rest I much agree with.

Grim

Not so sure about your analogy, although I find many points with which to agree.

To put people smugglers out of business, how about Australia set up processing in Indonesia? And ship out those who prove to be genuine refugees - nothing like cutting out the middle man. Any people who do manage to arrive by boat can then processed on shore. Effective, practical and cost effective. Oh, forgot to mention - HUMANE.

Alan Jones, Andrew Bolt et al, I'd swap for solar panels - useful and needed.

as web anonymity goes, for someone else to come here, claim to be Aboriginal, and then claim to the be the voice of all Aborigines..
King Hazza,
My point was exactly that, that I have yet to see an official comment on that subject i.e. a TV interview or newspaper article.