Hi Geoff,

Just a quick note to update and correct Poriot's poor attempt, above.

What has lead to the <<"refugee" diaspora>> is that it is widely known that OZ is an old softy, it's easy to con your way in --all you need to do is tell a good sob story.

And with regard to: <<A relatively small proportion of those people are now landing on our doorstep>>

The really funny, AND SCAREY, thing is that if a relatively large proportion of those people --or even ALL of those people --decided to land on our shore we would NOT be able to stop them under current arrangements. Further, people like Poriot would call us inhumane for even trying to do so. And no doubt under present arrangements over 90% would be "found to be genuine", anyway.

SPQR,

Yeah, we're pretty hard done by.

Do you want to know what a real refugee problem looks like?

http://twitpic.com/d4hlcf

@Poriot,

<<Do you want to know what a real refugee problem looks like>>

Well, it's pretty obvious YOU don't know what a <<real refugee>. looks like

Because anyone with even an elementary understanding of the Refugee Convention (and, in case you don't know, that is the pretext the boaties are using to land on our shores) will know that it does NOT define a refugee as someone fleeing a war zone -- hmmmm, so that is the second thing you've learned today, ay?

PS: That photo is probably what Perth will look like in a decade or two if we cannot control immigration!

Is that a Syrian refugee camp, Poirot?

OK, let's analyse this. The Arabs are a race of people who are a problem to the world. They are hell bent on maintaining their medieval religion who's values are completely inappropriate to anyone living in a modern democratic state. It is a fascist authoritarian religion which has always been at war with any sort of secular government. So strong is this religion that that the only way that any Arab state can move forward into the modern world even a little bit is to set up dictatorships which are stronger than the mullahs.

With the entire Middle East (excepting Israel) now almost entirely dictatorships at war with the Mullahs, with he various factions of Islam at war with each other, with some of the dictators absolute kooks who hate the west and promote terrorism towards us, and with and with Islam unable to create prosperous and peaceful societies, the result is war, and more war.

And your solution is to bring them all out here.

Yeah, and create more war zones in Australia. Just in case you have not heard, the NSW Police call the Bankstown, Auburn, Punchbowl area of Sydney, 'The Gaza Strip."

As for the Tamils, if they would never integrate into Sri Lankan society, and if they maintained their ethnic uniqueness, then settled into ethnic enclaves and then demanded "self determination," what's to stop them doing exactly the same thing in Australia?