Waiting Marylin Shepard for your answer, I think I will be waiting a long time though.
When the Italian, English and Greek people as immigrants arrived in the 1950's, they worked hard, did not grizzle and expect hand outs by the Government like the illegal boat people, the English people also lived in Nissan huts at Gepps Cross and accepted those conditions, Marylin I do hope you are opening your bank account to make all of your loved illegal immigrants happy with all the mod cons that they demand, come on now, don't be tight with your money and show to the rest of the community just how much you care for your illegal and loved boat people. Perhaps Sarah Hanson Young may help you out by opening her purse strings as well.

Ojnab,
Don't despair, lexi won't be long before she pulls one of her links out of some obscure official website. Marilyn will be feeling off the hook & will come back with yet more nonsensical quibbing. why can't she be put out of our misery ?

If you think we have a refugee problem now you'd better hope that people affected by the continuing debacle called Fukushima, don't realise how dire the situation really is.

I read on Russia Today that Obama is getting ready to attack Syria. Russia has drawn a line in the sand and Putin has said he won't let another Libya happen. This could start WW3.We have let the lunatics run the asylum and are constantly distracted by media trivia such as this.

What happens when a few million people turn up in boats to escape radiation?

Arjay thank goodness we have people like yourself reading other countries articles on world problems, instead of the one sided garbage we have to put up with via the Murdoch press.

Abbott is not neutered by this move at all. He just says OK and he will go along with it. Either way PNG will want to double dip or even triple dip and then drop us in it, whether it is Rudd or Abbott. They all know this lol.
This is a good idea as seriously who would come on a boat and be transported to PNG.
Here is a solution for Europe pay some really lovely poor country to accept "refugees". Just finding the country will be the problem.
After all the Lebanese accepted the Palestinians and now look.

RUDD GOT WHAT HE WANTED FROM INDONESIA


Rudd wanted SBY to tell him Australia was defenceless against the will of Indonesia and its people smugglers. He wanted to be told our defence forces should not attempt to defend our borders. He got what he wanted and at the cost of a simple rebuff to Abbott.
Involving other countries in Australia ’s domestic politics is a very dangerous ploy, but this is Kevin Rudd and Kevin is preoccupied with Kevin, not the interests of Australia .
Rudd (the Asian expert) should understand that the overarching political concern of Asians is the potential loss of face. To lose face is the epitome of cowardice and loss of respect.
Kevin Rudd has just given Australia that reputation and he has given it to those who know exactly what it means.
it means.
That is the measure of this man. He has confirmed Indonesia ’s claim that Australia (UNDER LABOR) is an international coward and will accept being told it should be unwilling to defend its borders... all for a cheap point-score in domestic electioneering.
But SBY is also in election mode and although the average Indonesian voter couldn’t give a damn about our boat invasion, that voter will be in awe of a strongman President who can so easily dictate another foreign power’s defence policy.
Let’s get this straight (and I’m no hawk) but these are Indonesian boats, under Indonesian flags, with Indonesian captains that continue to leave from Indonesian ports with tens of thousands of illegal immigrants who have flown into Indonesian airports and Rudd asks Indonesia’s President to, “Please confirm you don’t want us to turn these boats back!” Crumbs! Tbc.