Since when has a refugee influx been a "war"?
poirot,
Years ago they used guns to invade other countries, nowadays it's done by stealth under the guise of seeking asylum by pretending to be a refugee.
The ALP goverments of Rudd/Gillard have facilitated the invasion.
As soon as the required numbers are reached mayhem will commence in Australia. It won't happen overnight but it will happen.

Lexi, Poirot and the others do gooders I have 2 simple questions for you. Your one-eyed view missed this so I will post it again.

The Jews during ww2 were whole families not just the young men in the family.

The Syrian refugees are mostly women and children or elderly, not young men.

In Africa the refugees are mostly whole families not just young men.

The refugees in Myanmar are mostly whole families not just young men.

1) CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHY WE GET MOSTLY BOATS WITH 95% MEN ON THEM?

2) Can anyone explain why the UNHCR on a budget of $3.7 Billion can look after approx 25,000,000 refugees worldwide BUT it cost almost that much to look after not even .2% of that number.
That sound like a golden handshake magnet.

I will hunt down and gut the next moron who calls asylum seekers "illegals"".

What is wrong in your twisted brains that you fail to realise you are talking about fellow human beings?

What has created such rancid hatred?

Philip S, maybe you could simply ask yourself why any of that is our business.

Marilyn Shepherd - Quote "you could simply ask yourself why any of that is our business." So to avoid answering the questions you ask a stupid question.

Answer, As a Australian taxpayer I can see the future damage monetarily and culturally this will do to Australia.

NOW YOU ANSWER THE 2 QUESTIONS I ASKED.

To quote you further "I will hunt down and gut the next moron who calls asylum seekers "illegals" Are you for real that does not do much for your credibility making a statement like that, very inflammatory.

Marilyn Shepherd
"What has created such rancid hatred?"

Lexi and Poirot have the right idea Marilyn.

For the other contributors to this debate, ignorance and irrational fears have created the racist hatred that abounds on this thread, unfortunately.

Hasbeen is a disgrace for his murderous suggestion of letting the asylum seekers boats sink and they drown. He is therefore no better than the violent people of regimes that many of these asylum seekers are running from.

PhillipS asks why there are so many young men on the boats? I believe this has already been answered many times, so Mr. S obviously hasn't seen it.
The murderous regimes these guys run from are mostly after the young men who can fight them...that's a no-brainer...

Luckily, the Government, and most of the intelligent residents of Australia would not advocate turning back the boats, and signing the death warrants of men, women and children aboard them.

We need to stop them ever getting on the boats in the first place.
I don't know what the answer to that is.
But I do know that murder by drowning is not an answer.