Duncan Grahame

Our society is cohesive because we have a legal system and laws that show we have respect for one another. Our laws of trespass are part of that accepted structure as are our laws re immigration.

Laura broke our laws (trespass) while protesting against the detention of those who breached our immigration laws.

If we all endorsed or followed their example our community would soon lack cohesion and quickly descend into anarchy.

Laura was wrong and needs to respect us and our laws and find legitimste ways of showing her dissent.

Quite simple really.

Thank you on the beach. Our attitudes are those that our society have endorsed and worked within for several hundred years. People who dont believe we should follow our laws face Socrete's choice.

Didn't we recently have a teacher awarded nearly $700,000 for damages caused by a child from the Sudan who had spent time locked up in a detention centre? The child was locked up through no fault of his own, spent I don't how long there, and then came out with an anti-social attitude. Who would have thought?!?!? Yet all the talk was about dealing with the symptoms of his incarceration, and nary a word about the idea that he might have been fine had he not been locked up. I'm with Laura - I don't understand what Australia is trying to achieve, apart from being labeled the meanest country in the world!