Australia has lost its moral compass.
The majority of these refugees who make the most dangerous and perilous journey to our shores are from Iraq and Afghanistan.

We sent our Soldiers to their countires to help a few multi nationals secure oil reserves and oil pipelines. In achieving that we removed their governments, destroyed their economies and brutalised the entire people.

I can live with that,, what I can't live with is the Lies. I can accept an honest, we are tougher then you and we want to protect our way of life and we need oil and we don't trust the way you manage it.

But once we start believing crap about terrorists and start pointing fingers about the morality of foreign leaders - well believing that will just send you insane. It is a fantasy of lies which requires enormous emotional effort to sustain it enables our politicians to dilute our civil rights here, and haven't we become a craven compliant lot.

To think the same nation which can send itself into an epic emotional outpouring apologising to its indigenous people for heaven knows what happened and heaven knows when; this same country now builds concentration camps for the displaced people it illegal.y invaded and whos country we destroyed.

Really!

Even the barest familiarity with history should convince you what a slippery slop to butchery this is.

Yebiga,
Why don't the super rich oil barrons look after their own people instead of sending them here ? If you think deep enough you'll find they're the ones who have lost their moral compass not us. They have way, way more money than well ever have so direct your do-gooder tirade at them & see what you get.

Sorry individual
We, Australia sent our soldiers as apart of coalition of war criminals to enable the oil barons to get their hands on the reserves.

So we Australia, unwittingly or otherwise enabled the theft and the destruction of 2 countries where millions of their citizens have been made into refugees.

Some of those millions of refugees stupidly thought maybe Australia had some modicum of conscience.

But yes, we should demand that the oil barons recompensate these people and help pay for their introduction into our community.

We, Australia invaded Afghanistan and Iraq, who where no threat to Australia.
Australia accordingly has to take responsibility for its action, for being a part of the destruction and devastation of these two countries.
To those who think otherwise, answer why we should not take responsibility; for what has been done in our name.

I've got a great idea; close the abc and use the $1.2 billion to really find out whether these criminals in Manus are from Iran or whatever.

I send YEBIGA to Iran; he'd dazzle them with his syntax and erudition.

Some of those millions of refugees stupidly thought maybe Australia had some modicum of conscience.
Yebiga,
Australia DOES have some conscience or at least more than the Arabs. How many Arab countries do you know that take in refugees ? that oil excuse is not valid because everyone needs oil & no-one made that oil. It was western ingenuity that enabled the exploitation of those natural resources & the westerners have paid rouyalties since day 1. How many others besides the westerners do you know of do that PLUS take in those who are sent to out-breed us ? The refugees aren't stupid, Australians are !