The do-gooders are out in force.

Even Bob Carr disagrees with them:

http://resources.news.com.au/files/2013/06/09/1226660/835253-meet-the-press-transcript.pdf

Bob, that paragon of virtue and leftie morality says this about the boat-people:

"Let’s analyse what’s going on here, and that is we’ve got a people smuggling racket that’s entrenched. And people are coming here, not now as a result of persecution, but because they’re economic refugees who’ve have paid money to people smugglers. There’s been a spike in people coming from Iran, for example – none of them are claiming persecution. It’s the economic pressure of the sanctions in Iran, and the squeeze on living standards. People in these circumstances think if we give $10,000 to a people smuggler in a port in Indonesia, he will get us into Australian waters. That is the essence of this. It’s the essence of it."

In the process Australia has handed over control of its borders to Indonesian based criminals and in all likelihood government, a government which Australia has fought wars against in the recent past, cost 100's of lives has spent the best part of $20 billion and for what?

So sanctimonious pests can blame everyone except themselves, and a motley crew of parasites can profit financially from the boat-people industry and crow about their moral superiority.

Despicable.

I think the 'boat people' started out a decade ago as genuine refugees fleeing persecution in their home countries. But times have changed, and while there are still many genuine refugees in the world, far too many of the 'boat people' have become opportunistic chancers who are paying criminals money to get a leg into Australia. According to many commentators, they are coached on how to answer questions put to them by our over-worked custom staff, having previously discarded their identity documents.
Once they are here, I would like to think we are compassionate enough to not tow them back out to sea, but they can be asked to treat us fairly in return.
I like Abbott's plan to put them on a work-for-the-dole scheme without any access to family reunion measures or real employment until they have identified themselves accurately so appropriate security checks can be carried out.
We are being played like a piano, and it's time for that to stop.

Wellllll... I am not going to be popular, basically I am a let them come kind of guy. But then we helped 'cause lots of the crappy problems that even the economic refugees try to run from.

I would rather have my tax dollar helping people then shooting at them, i.e instead of spending dollars going over there shooting people, spend it here on infrastructure to house people. I know, weird huh :)

That aside, didn't I read the other day that some 90% are genuine refugees.'

Anyway, doesn't matter anyhoo. In 30 years of voting, no local, state or federal hopeful pollie I have voted for has gotten in, so it's not me. You voters put 'em there you have reaped what you have sown and similarly when you put Abbot etal in this coming September.

Valley Guy,
For your sake I hope you're still young enough to experience the ignorance of your mentality.
Without a single exception the likes of you are the first ones to come running crying for help from yes, you guessed it, those whom you condemn now.

You are a bigot Marilyn and blinded by your moral superiority to the REAL DANGER THAT ISLAM PRESENTS. (Now that's an excellent example of bigotry).

"It should also be stated at every opportunity that the deaths of 100's if not 1000's of boat-people lies firmly at the feet of the Gillard/green government" (Or those Governments that invaded their countries in the first place, or supported the dictators they earlier helped to put in place or bribed as required).

Refugees are not the problem. They are the symptom of another problem.

Unfortunately rache judging by the problems they are causing throughout Europe, once their numbers reach a certain level, they are a "symptom" that is likely to kill or injure you & your descendants.