Your concern is more to do with our total immigration intake, really a different topic.
Luciferase,
I think you're utterly & totally missing to see the overall picture. Refugees are deliberately produced to achieve non-military invasion of western cultures.

individual,

Tell us more?....who's "deliberately producing" the refugees?

Why, one would have to interfere economically in a country's affairs or even bomb it into oblivion "preemptively" to produce a flood of refugees.

All the countries and corporate interests which comprise West's "pure as driven snow" approach to world affairs couldn't be accused of such behaviour - could they?

Saltpetre wrote: "The Malaysian Solution could at best provide only a slight and temporary stop-gap:"

Huh? So sending boat occupants to Malaysia will not be a deterrent? It won't take too many to be transferred there before the deterrent is loud and clear. What is "temporary" about this deterrence any more so than turning boats back was?

Regarding the "worthiness" of refugees, the ones replacing those sent to Malyasia have already had their claims assessed by UNHCR and are awaiting resettlement. What is unworthy about them?

Also, just how are refugees stopped "at source". Sure, there is a source, but just what do you propose. Bad s... happens and to suggest there is an authority that can stop it happening is fanciful. Perhaps you are a "one world government" proponent?

To finish, you write "We should be able to select who we want to migrate to Aus, and under what conditions."

Well, Saltpetre, that is what Labor is trying to achieve against opposition, but turning back vulnerable people with naval force does not have to be a part of it.

Why, one would have to interfere economically in a country's affairs or even bomb it into oblivion "preemptively" to produce a flood of refugees.
Poirot,
No, absolutely not necessary. That's out-dated strategy.

Poirot,
Two wrongs will never make a right, no matter how often it is attempted. Nowadays it is far more effective to exploit the stupidity of the educated.

After reading the E-mails I don't think we are going to come to a solution very quickly regarding refugess, nearly every one I have spoken to, and that is many, all seem to come up with the same request;
Send them back and come into Australia legally
They all look well fed on these leaky boats
Why are they not responsible for their own actions, that is why board a boat that may not make the distance to Australia.
Must have plenty of money to board these boats in the first place, the poorer refugees cannot afford the amount of money these people are paying.
Why are these mainly Muslim refugees coming here?.
Where are all of these Muslim refugees in the workforce, the Vietnamese soon opened businesses and flourished when they came.
Why is the taxpayer having to support these boat people
Why don't the Indonesian Gov't put an end to refugee smuggling.
These are just a few of the answers I have had from ORDINARY Australians, not from the Academics who will do their best to justify their coming here.
Wars and Religion are the two main groups creating refugees, lets curtail the population explosion,of course that will never happen owing to the thinking of the Catholic and Muslim religions.
Yes! we are all becoming more scared of where this great country is heading with people like Gillard, Abbot and Brown in control