What a stupid country.
marylin,
I came here over 40 years ago by choice. I was lucky that I had a choice & I never forget to appreciate that I was given a choice.
I very much feel for genuine refugees taking the risk of breaking up their families & risking their own life.
I also feel very strong about Australia being hijacked for reasons other than a refuge. As I said earlier rather than letting the world get overrun by refugees or those pretending to be we have to stop the production of refugees. That in turn also poses a problem because do-gooders object to send forces into places like Iraq & Afghanistan. I rather stop stupidity/evil before it gets mobile.
We have to be cruel to be kind. Unfortunately for good to win evil must lose. Too many do-gooders afford evil the benefit of doubt but none to their own.

Marylin,
when do you think enough is enough ?

Sheesh Marylin. I must remember to use underage crew for my next
shipment of asylum seekers to Australia. No doubt you will send
them back immediately, so that they are ready for the following
trip. That means money for jam for me and for them. Yippee!

It is indeed sad that the genuine refugees are being punished by being pushed to the back of the queue, whilst the cashed up economic refugees can afford $15 000 a piece (more than most earn in a lifetime).

That 30% are found not to be genuine refugees by the tribunal, but 99% do after years of appeals is more an indication of our limp wristed legal system than that most of the boat people are economic migrants.