So when do we stop?
When there is standing room only or, perhaps, just prior.

Judging by this thread it looks like Abbott's immigration policies have overwhelming community support.

Ozzie
The Parramatta stabbing was a domestic dispute between a man and his partner’s former husband. It was tragic and appalling, but family-related violence of this type can occur in any ethic group. Unless you can show that boat people are more likely than the rest of us to engage in murderous love-triangles, the perpetrator’s refugee status is irrelevant.

My heart goes out to anyone who is traumatised by witnessing the Parramatta incident, especially children. But the number of children being traumatised by brutal indefinite detention at Australia’s instigation is far larger, and the trauma they suffer far greater and more prolonged.

Our treatment of asylum seekers is a calculated attempt to deter arrivals by inflicting dreadful conditions on the innocent, including children. Like the author, I can’t believe Australia is doing this. It is a far cry from the fair, compassionate and rational Australia of a few years ago. The race to the bottom was instigated with Keating’s introduction of mandatory detention, escalated by Howard, redoubled by Rudd/Gillard and is now reaching new lows under Abbott.

Burnside’s proposed alternative seems cheaper, fairer, and more rational.

Scratch and Curmudgeon
What queue? There is absolutely no means for a persecuted Sri Lankan Tamil to gain access to Australia through its refugee program. Nor is there any necessary connection between Australia’s formal refugee intake and its acceptance of boat people

The boat people intake has been mostly moslem as are the vast majority
of Iranians, so the possibility arises that the Parramatta killing may
have been an honor killing.

It will be interesting to hear what the defendant has to say.

Rhian,
Yes but no member of the public has access to any figures on crime and ethnic background, it's top secret information so you can't legitimately minimise and excuse this crime in the way you've done, nor can anyone rightly claim that immigrants are forming a criminal underclass, we just don't know.

Plantagenet.
Nope, Abbott's immigration policy still has immigrants in it, when a political party closes the borders and expels every overseas born person with an criminal record or who has been on welfare for more than twelve months then I'll support them.

Rhrosty,
Again with the Nazis? Every year thousands of Australians go to Sri Lanka for their holidays, it's hardly the Generalgouvernement.
Your position is typical Racism for the sake of Anti Racism, you ennoble one group and demonise another, do you want to see why Tamils are feared and treated with suspicion?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd2godP6zCE
Apart from anything else it's a stupid idea to bring battle fatigued, mentally ill people into your society on purpose as the spate of self immolations, assaults and murders among Tamil migrants shows.
Rhrosty, why is it the responsibility of White people and ONLY White people to take care of all the criminals, mental patients and trauma victims in the world?
The ship load currently being held under high court injunction embarked from Pondicherry in India, India is not a hostile country to Tamils, they have a state of their own which is peaceful, where they can practice their religion and speak their language.
There are only about two million Tamils in Sri Lanka, a tiny fraction are trying to emigrate, they could all go to Tamil Nadu if they wanted to and the Indian government would support them.
If India is going to take it's place in the "Asian Century" it can deal with it's own ethnic minorities, maybe we should be looking at helping out the reported 600,000 destitute Afrikaners or the millions of poor Whites in the U.S.A?

Perhaps I've misunderstood, but my take on this appalling episode is that a boat-load (or two?) of people from India were intercepted on the high seas (piracy ?) and because some of them (perhaps all, it doesn't really matter) had fled from Sri Lanka to India, the Australian government has handed over fifty-odd of them to Sri Lankan naval vessels.

Is that right ? If this is so, then surely they have broken all manner of international laws ? And laws about handing back 'captured' refugees to the very authorities they are fleeing from, thus breaching all manner of international refugee agreements.

IF this is what's happened, then surely charges could be laid against the Australian government at some international court, perhaps for crimes against humanity, at least ?

Why couldn't the boat or boats have been allowed to enter Australian waters around Christmas Island, from which the refugees could have been transferred to Nauru or Manus Island ? Or, of course, since they may not have been actually refugees fleeing India, the boat or boats could have been simply escorted back to India ?

What is India saying about all this ?

On the face of it, this is truly despicable.

Joe