At the same time we gift billions to this corrupt Islamic nation that has wealth beyond ours, the world’s fastest growth of billionaires and a military and bureaucracy that amass huge profits by virtue of breaching our borders. WTF am I missing here?
Rudd will of course confirm that all parties are now to embark on a “regional solution”. What a load of frog droppings! This is not a “regional problem”, it never was, it is an “Indonesian problem” and it should be dealt with from a position of strength!
“Regional” is a politic word meaning, “to dissipate responsibility”. “To involve others who are not really involved because it then appears it’s not our lack of resolve alone.”
Until Australia has a leader who will not cravenly cower to another foreign power's interests, until we have a leader who will cultivate respect for Australia ’s sovereignty, then we remain dangerously exposed.
No nation has ever respected another nation's weakness... least of all an Asian nation.
If you didn’t like Rudd initially, you now have it confirmed in spades exactly why you didn’t

I need to clarify that the two above posts are not my writing at all, they were sent to me in an email.
When I posted them I somehow missed copying that explanation.
Full credit to whoever wrote this.

The election and the Australian people will determine the outcomes for irregular arrivals. Not the rabid rabble rousers!
We can accept more asylum seekers, than we do now.
But it must be done in an orderly manner and from those who have waited the longest.
There are some 45 million displaced persons in the world, waiting in camps for some sort of compassionate outcome.
Currently, only three countries are accepting significant numbers of asylum seekers. Canada, the US and Australia, and daylight after that!
145 nations are signatories to the UN 1951 convention on asylum seekers. A document drawn up to end the possibility of another Jewish holocaust.
A problem compounded by the sheer number of pre war nations, including us, who turned their backs on this genocide.
However, we and all other signatories, watched as the Cambodian, Rwandan and other genocides took place, without better late than never, Balkans style intervention.
We need all the other signatories to step up to the mark, rather than leave it to others!
Therefore, this treaty needed to be reworked, so as to provide this tide of human misery, safe sanctuary; and indeed, make intervention not only possible, but perhaps mandatory. In which case, the safe sanctuary, would be provided where they live now!
Rhrosty.

Rhosty,
There's only one factor you've overlooked. When countries step in & employ the required force to fight the injustices that you speak of then the do-gooders jump up & down screaming illegal invasion ! When they don't step in we get the likes of you jumping up & down accusing others for not stepping in. Which is it to be ? I'd prefer no refugees in the first place. Just ask those 45 million, they'll give you the same answer. Go in & help people not becoming refugees & you have the ignorant do-gooders calling you all sorts of names.
I say to sort out these problems we must first start a war on stupidity. Every country fights their own stupid & presto, no more refugees.
Australia can win it's war soon by voting out the Dudd & his moron followers.

Again I will make the comment. STOP GIVING FINANCIAL AID TO INDONESIA! why, oh why cannot you people see that we are being shafted by this evil corrupt nation? You are as blind to this as to the flat beer tipped into a new bottle prime minister being the saviour at the next election. The ALP have caused this country more grief since they gained power than the illegals have. Wake up to yourselves, do not contribute further to our decline by putting these goofy goons and their green idiot partners in charge of the china shop.
WAKE UP!
Cliffy

Cliffy, this is part of the UN Agenda 21 plan that all parties including the Greens have all signed off on. Google Senator Ann Bressington and Agenda 21.For a long time she did not believe the treachery that our pollies have perpetrated upon us.