On this issue with the exception of the Greens all parties of any size are prisoners of the xenophobia and hysteria they have been fostering. They cannot abandon their xenophobia and hysteria without admitting their own moral bankruptcy. There are two main problems:

1. The governments along with the religious and political entities which are persecuting people.

2. The lack of a place of safety for those who are persecuted.

Solve the first problem, and there are no more refugees. Provide places of refuge, and there are also no more refugees.

Phillip,
Xenophilia is a far more widespread and serious mental condition than Xenophobia, extreme Xenophilia among the middle classes, church groups and in political circles is wreaking havoc upon the poor and working class communities of Australia. Xenophilia these days has become so extreme that has swung over into the familiar patterns of the White supremacy of old, we have the gruesome spectacle of rich White people asserting the absolute superiority of their schools of thought and their ways of life over all others while trying to disguise their true motives behind a veneer of "compassion" and moralising articles such as this. Extreme Xenophiles such as yourself Phillip seem to have such a limited understanding of the world that you cannot see that by creating these straw men and false contradictions you are in fact committing the cardinal sin of "Racism" yourselves.
When Leon Trotsky coined the term "Racists" he clearly defined the term as the belief among one section of society that their way of life and their people were wholly democratic and just but were being held back by the top down rule of people who did not share their own values or who held beliefs considered alien by the majority.

David F,
LOL, you confirm my post before I even post it, well done.
It's my contention that Anti Racism and support for "refugees" has become a strongly identitarian and even ethnocentric movement among a section of the White majority in this country. Any time I see "them bad-us good" I know immediately what I'm looking at, even if at times it looks like unconscious anti racism on the part of the speaker, because as we know many bigots don't even realise that they are bigots.

On this issue --with the exception of the Greens who are off with the pixies-- all parties of any size are pretty clued up about the scam that is being perpetuated by the boaties and their hangers-on. The Greens cannot abandon their fantasy without admitting their own total redundancy . There are two main problems:

1. Different groups have a tendency to fight .

2. There are often not enough of what people want to go around .

Solve the first problem, and there are no more refugees. Solve the second problem, and there will be no more poverty, and then we can all live happily every after.

Dear Jay of Melbourne,

You seem obsessed with race and racism. I used neither word in my post. It is news to me that Trotsky coined the term, racists. Please cite when and where he coined it.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=racist:

racist Look up racist at Dictionary.com1932 as a noun, 1938 as an adjective, from race (n.2); racism is first attested 1936 (from French racisme, 1935), originally in the context of Nazi theories. But they replaced earlier words, racialism (1871) and racialist (1917), both often used early 20c. in a British or South African context. In the U.S., race hatred, race prejudice had been used, and, especially in 19c. political contexts, negrophobia.

Perhaps this nerds would be better off sticking to something they knows something about.

Of course he could go home & improve his own society, one so far below the Ozzie society in every way it is really funny that someone who has left there presumes to lecture anyone else on earth on how to live.