It should be Loose cannon not Judy with idiotic idealism like that. Is she going to put her efforts/money where her mouth is ? Of course not. I didn't think such stupidity was legal.
Don't give us that crap about the UN about Australia's treatment of refugees. Where's the UN when these people board the boats ? Where's the Un when it comes to screening the genuine from the non-genuine ?
Australia has a great record of dealing with refugees. It's the pseudo refugees wh are de-stabilising it all. Get the Un to look at that.
Also, those peaceful marchers could peacefully hand over the money that's required to support the pseudo refugees.
Anyone who needs help must be helped but this is going too far. what happens when the resources run out & there'll be refugees from Australia.

What exactly makes a non genuine refugee?
If a person has the courage to embark on a perilous journey on a rickety unsafe craft, across a wild ocean and accept all the risks which come with that is that not proof enough of their genuineness?

Who amongst us would have that courage to leave our home, beg and borrow precious life savings from our nearest and dearest to embark on such a journey?

What judicial process could possibly prove that such a desperate person is not genuine? And even if we are to accept that their lives back home were not so terrible, that they just want to make a better life for themselves by venturing on such a hazardous journey - is this not something to be admired?

Does one in a thousand australians have the courage and ingenuity these people have displayed?

Is it perhaps this courage and ingenuity that threatens us? Is this why we detain them in squalor without hope to defeat their spirit. To prove to ourselves that we are not weak and pathetic, fat, lazy and afraid - afraid they will take our jobs, our university spots, our homes, our pensions. Afraid they will end up more successful than us.

There is no moral justification for our treatment of these desperate people. We demean ourselves by treating them as we do. How we treat those most vulnerable and in need is the true proof of character and strength - by that test we are a nation that has neither.

What exactly makes a non genuine refugee?
Yebiga,
One who hides their identity by not showing the papers to australian authorities. The same papers they used to get as far as Indonesia.
Yes, too feel for people being so desperate to escape persecution & poverty & they need help.
Just like the boat people of 200 years ago but who are now villefied as invaders by many.
You can only help people as long as you can help them, once you arrive at a situation where you can't provide any more help then what ?
What do you suggest should be done to prevent them from becoming refugees in the first place. Let's hear your suggestion.

Have a big ceremony and make them citizens, what else?
I would have parades down our city malls welcoming them as heroes. We could make great movies of their courage across the seas.

Yebiga,
great idea, by how much would you like to see your taxes increased to help fund it all ?

Gee I thought we were a first world country with abundant resources. Aren't we like top 10 in the world in pretty much any raw material you care to mention: wool, gold, iron, aluminium, wheat, la di da?

Don't we attract students from all over Asia to study in our universities. Surely we are smart enough to know how to utilise the courage of these heroic people. Indeed, perhaps a bit of that courage might rub off on us.

And who else will drive our taxis, work in our sweat shops, man our call centres

You know its possible to have a vision of this country which does not involve becoming a fortress.

And if your really worried about our tax collection, perhaps our government could consider removing negative gearing which only inflates our home prices. Or consider a financial transaction tax to collect something of the booming derivative speculation currently threatening to take the entire world to economic Armageddon!

We are obsessed with all the problems and thus blind to the infinitude of solutions.

Mean little small minded Aussies not worthy of the people who built this nation.