As the Perth Chief Justice stated in March: it is risible to call it people smuggling".
And I find it risible to see my tax dollar wasted on the chief justice & the lawyers. I also find it risible that our own get less attention.
We must help people in need nothing is more obvious but for crying out loud half a million for each ?
Who are the real illegals here ? Australian authorities that's who.

Ali Jasmin is finally going home thanks mostly to Hamish McDonald who had the guts to look behind the lies and advocate for the children.

To help exploit children for an ulterior motive is as bad as not helping them. Don't know what I'm on about ? Go to Europe & see for yourself.
By helping those children you're destroying our children's' future. Short-term feel good causes long-term strife. Do-gooders just can't see that. You must ask yourself whose children's future you're more concerned about.
Ask yourself if your compassion is is not discriminatory towards your own in a few years time.. It gets to me too seeing those poor little wretches being used as bargaining tools.
We know it's bad, no need to convince us, tell the fanatics over there. Wouldn't it make more sense to stop the nonsense over there rather than bring it here ?

Ali Jasmin is finally going home but I wonder what Gillard and co. would have thought if the child had been murdered in Albany prison based on dodgy psuedo science that has been disused all over the world.

What the fashionable compassion brigade has to realise that once the gates are open we won't be able to shut them again.
Presently, we get refugees from Somalia, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan & several other places. Next will be other african countries, Middle east, or Mexico or whatever country has Dictators lining up. We simply can not keep taking in people in that manner. doesn't the australian way of life mean anything to the intake advocates ? Or perhaps they have no contact with the people who come here so it's easy for them to play compassionate missionary. Don't think the australian lifestyle will get better by so much intake.

Individual we get refugee applicants from Peru, all over Europe and the middle east, we get them from every corner of the globe already.

the thing is though that those who come by sea are genuine in the main while those who fly are in the main frauds.

So we punish the genuine and ignore the frauds.

What a stupid country.