And again all the same liars come out to play.

ASylum seekers are the ones we owe protection to, we don't owe anything to those overseas.

We now have only two decent honest men in our parliament who understand the law.

"We now have only two decent honest men in our parliament who understand the law."

That would be Abbott and Morrison. (good to see them rubbing Juliar's nose in it.)

The Greens just make it up as they go along.

No Shadow, they are all breaking the law on the pretext of saving lives but really simply further punishing innocent people.

There is no such thing as a proper way to come here, they just have to get here and to criminalise one method again flies in the face of the law.

For the first time in decades refugee laws were working as designed by the UNHCR and as they work all over the world.

But whiney cry babies here refuse to tell the truth about that, much easier to punish people.

The deportations scheduled have all been decided based on illegal and flawed assessments.

Why shouldn't the people apply to the high court.

The author of this article not only lacks a common understanding of this specific issue, but totally fails when it comes to the greater problem facing Australia, a clearly unsustainable population growth mantra.

For the initiated, population issues are about demographics, women's rights, economic development, and impacts on ecosystem function and integrity for subsistence. Yet, none of the usual or obscure ideas about population growth and its dangers have been embraced with any hope of unifying people to tackle the population problem.

With 7 billion people, and more, it is time to at least fight for consensus that much more growth, whether it be population, economic or social is impossible. If you believe in this mantra then you must support lower per-capita well-being, financial success and societal cohesion, not to mention the ever increasing destruction of our soils, fresh water, fish stocks, native vegetation and a wealth of vital resources within a sustainable ecosystem.

Even those well versed in overpopulation, trying to focus the world on the problem, may fall into the camp of many more people supposedly being sustainable. What they invariably are not taking into account is energy resource limits and planetary limits. This is a critical failure at all levels and one that will be the catalyst for serious discussion in the very near future.

We live in a pro-natal society that worships parenthood and suffer with successive governments that encourage financial incentives to boost our so-called ‘low population’ growth rate. It’s time we got rid of these ridiculous incentives and educate people on birth control and abortion.

We live on a finite planet, Australia has a very limited ability to increase its population from that which it already is, never mind the minor impact of these ‘refugees’, we should all worry about the bigger picture

“and there are 42 million refugees or displaced people in the world.”

I suspect this is rather a fluid figure adaptable to change. While refugee camps around the world are stacked to the brim, there is somewhat of a disincentive to leave your current oppressed situation, as bad as it is, to move out of the frying pan and into the fire.
However if some mug first-world country on the Pacific Rim should start getting soft and allowing in displaced people hand over fist, then obviously that would be an incentive to start the trek from wherever you are amongst the billions of people throughout the world who live cheek by jowl with malnutrition or oppression or both.

It’s like one of those automatic cat feeders for when you go away and leave moggy on his own. There’s just a small handful of crunchies at the base of the dispenser with the rest stacked up vertically inside the container. However the more he consumes the more space is made for further amounts to fall down and to feline it is just a never ending supply.

"We live on a finite planet"

I'm sick of reading this rubbish! Just one minute of thought would prevent you from repeating this stupid catch phrase. I'm assuming you exclude the suns energy and all things derived from this energy from your calculations? Now if you want to worry about something, worry about a few billion years from now when the sun goes supernova.