Laura, if you're serious about helping people who turned up in boats uninvited, you should study these resources very closely - they're all about domestic violence in refugee communities:

http://www.speakout.org.au/dv02-03.htm
http://www.redcross.org.au/community-assistance-support.aspx
http://www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/~/media/ProgramsandProjects/DiscriminationandViolence/ViolenceAgainstWomen/CAS_Paper4_Refugee.ashx
www.adfvc.unsw.edu.au/specialcollectionsrefugees.htm‎
www.communitybuilders.nsw.gov.au › research and resources‎
dro.deakin.edu.au/view/DU:30007483‎
www.refugeecouncil.org.au/r/spn/130626-SPN.pdf‎

Jay of Melbourne.
Everything you say, could contain an element of truth?
But the overwhelming post war displaced arriving here, were Jewish, and deprived on all sides, of their property and processions!
And they, almost to a generic man, treated their identifying documents, as their most prized remaining processions!
That said, the true asylum seeker has very little difficulty, recognizing the occasional fake!
Today, we have heat seeking cameras, and computer assisted facial recognition that assists that outing!
If I had my druthers, I'd subject all former living asylum seekers/refugees, to these new validation tools, if only to eliminate those, who like former Nazi's, managed to slip through the net, and as you claim, fool the world's foremost experts!
I don't have any problem accepting many more genuine refugees! We could easily double or treble our current intake!
I'd just want to ensure, that they all came in the front door as invitees, rather than the radicalized activists, some of who are patently slipping past our filtering systems?
I also am bewildered by some types, who having forced their way in, can do no better than bag Australia and everything Australian, particularly our marriage laws that prevent control freak monsters from bedding little prepubescent girls, not yet even teenyboppers!
And often forced into arrangements, not of their choosing; and therefore condemned to a lifetime of sexual slavery or early death in childbirth?
Rhrosty.

Cohenite,
The illegals are also 84% adult males but we still keep hearing about all these poor little "children" in detention.
How many of these poor little babies are actually fighting age males, 15-18 years old? It's actually around 94% adult males since in the Third World "youths", 13-18 year olds are considered to be men and will behave like adult men in comparison to our own kids.

Carol, I'm not sure why I am held responsible for comments. Every comment submitted goes up in the first instance. I moderate if someone draws my attention to a comment which breaks the forum rules. Sometimes I see a comment that needs to come down, but I do not read every comment.

So far on this debate I haven't seen anything that needs to come down, given forum rules and the general standards of forums like this.

I've been published twice on The Drum and the comments thread was not a pleasant place to look - worse than anything I've seen on OLO.

Rhrosty, Eh? What? I'm surprised that an erudite poster such as yourself would fall for that furphy.
According to the Israeli government figures I just now Googled Australia absorbed about 7,000 Jewish DP's after the war.
Jews were a tiny fraction of the European migrant intake after the war, for example we took in 56,000 Poles, 20,000 Latvians, 15,000 Hungarians and 100,000 Germans, that's besides the Greeks, Yugoslavs, Italians and all the other continental European migrants.
The Waffen SS was a truly multicultural force with millions of volunteers drawn from all parts of Europe and due to it's links with the NSDAP it was deemed a culpable organisation by the allies, that's where this idea of war criminals posing as refugees comes from. If you were in the SS you are considered a war criminal whether you were a base camp filing clerk or the man who operated the gallows at Buchenwald.
I'm just having a dig at people who use this phase of history to deflect criticism of their support for "refugees" today, sure, it's morally equivalent on the level I've described since then and now refugee advocates are willing to turn a blind eye to criminals posing as displaced persons.
It's the same mentality exhibited by the Allied bureacrats who allowed so many Ahnenerbe personnel to emigrate to the U.S and elsewhere, even some who'd worked on extremely dubious projects such as at Natzweiler-Stuthof. Just like the former Nazis the Tamils and Hazara are politically useful to the elites so their many flaws and shady past lives, if discovered at all are overlooked.

what beats me about the 'Christian ' activist is that if you want to do something useful to allievate the suffering of probably billions then give some hard earned cash to the multitudes of organisations doing a good job. Many commentators who overlook the drowning of a thousands and are dirty that Abbott and Morrison stopped the drownings continue their line in order to keep their appearances on Q&A and the Drum and other public sucking propaganda machines alive. Imagine Bruce and his co-horts admitted they had egg all over their faces. Must keep up the 'progressive ' views in order to sure up spots on the public progressive spin doctor paid for by you and I.