Jay, Australia seems to think that if we bravely accept 0.0001% of the world's refugees but we squander $1.3 billion a year trying not to do it.

We pay $3.60 per person per annum for millions of starving Afghans, we have soldiers watching the poppies grow and killing Afghans in their beds.

Our invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 has forced millions more to flee to Pakistan and has spread our war to Pakistan with the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives on both sides of the border.

Currently Pakistan is kicking out 3 million Hazara and other refugees - I think if we alone in the world can decide to dump refugees who ask us for help in other nations it is fair enough for other nations to dump millions of them here.

Here is a tip.

We do not get to arbitrarily throw hundreds of years of law on a whim.

*Our invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 has forced millions more to flee to Pakistan and has spread our war to Pakistan*

Not really, Marylin. Millions had fled from the Taliban before and
millions more might flee, knowing that the Taliban will take over
once again, aided all the way by Pakistan, once we leave.

Fact is that without Pakistani support, the Taliban would no longer be
an issue.

Your motherly hormones are very sweet, but hardly factual.

Marilyn,
There was no "We" or "Us" involved in war of agression waged upon the people of Aghanistan, are you a kinswoman of Mullah Omar, Abdul Rashid Dostum, George Bush or John Howard?
Lines on a map of Australia supposedly mean nothing to people like you, so why do lines on maps of central Asia matter?
What possible effect does it have on your children's lives if 3 million Hazara are living on one side of the Khyber pass or the other?
Can you explain to me in scientific terms precisely why Australia should take in one refugee let alone 20,000?
I can frame arguments opposing Third World immigration to white countries in either scientific or moralistic terms, as far as I can tell your side can do neither.

I thank Kerry or Graham for updating Kerry's biography to reflect her interest in this subject.

Yes, a typically Labor in action.

Never acknowledge an 'error of judgement' ... but adopt critic's suggestions without acknowledgement.

Hey Marilyn,

you'll be able, under Bowen's enhanced asylum community sponsership scheme, to take care of a refugee or two or all 42,000,000 of them, save them all and save the world.

Cheers and good luck with that.