No one WANTS to leave their homeland. Their place of birth. Their heritage. No one WANTS their country to wracked by war and chaos.

The best way to stop refugees is to stop invading and blowing up their countries.

FIGHT WAR NOT WARS!

Mikk

<<No one WANTS to leave their homeland. Their place of birth. Their heritage...>>

You are surely delusional MIKK.

If you went any south Asian location, you could recruit hundreds of thousands of wannabe newOzzies within hours

The article’s author claims she often sensed a conflict of interest at work regarding refugee policy since she herself was one. Yet did that fear existed in the real social world [other people’s minds] or just in her own head.

She says due to this fear she often stayed neutral or even away from any possible conflicts. I would now say after reading her piece . . . . . your initial gut instinct to stay silent was the truest and most authentic coarse of action.

But instead of getting over her over-convuluted sense of thinking her entire being is composed of those elusive ‘refugee particles’ making her existence a rotational of the great migrant [i.e. non-western] axis of Being . . . . this person or ‘refugee’ [as she calls it] now thinks she should have always and forever been fully involved in the trenches of all things non-white, non-western and ethnic.

From her tone of obvious one-sided perspective on the issues of refugee policy and multiculturalism, I am again dismayed and disappointed to be eternally cursed with never finding even ONE person of refugee or migrant [non-white but] background who actually comprehends and recognises the real and whole situation, rather than the small and self-centred pocket universe created by western leftist twits which is the coloured person realm of semi-beings [semi to leftists, not to me. I think all people are worth equal in existential senses].

What many like this “refugee” as she calls herself forget is that none of the nations and cultures and ethnic identities she nor other refugee and immigrants come from . . . . have EVER came to even thinking of the notion to have their own nation transformed over decades into one where her host group becomes less than half the populace with rest being composed of hundreds of different peoples/cultures from all over globe, and where the laws and customs of that host people will also be greatly altered to take focus away from their own tribe and disperse it amongst ALL peoples now equal citizens under their system.

Dear Tombee,

<<We cannot help them all.>>

Of course we cannot and nobody is expecting it, but what Australia does instead is to physically stop them.

- Let there be no help, but then let there be no hindrance either. The idea as if certain people own a whole continent (just because centuries ago their ancestors had better gun-ships) and have a right to kick everyone else out of it, is sickening.

Until a “refugee” can –

come to be open and honest and recognize not just what they perceive to be bad things happening to them and refugees all . . . and can also admit and know that the host people and culture who had their actual laws and common notions revolutionised to accept massive numbers of refugees and imigrants from all over the world and continuing from 70s to present . . . . . and that as the FIRST and ONLY peoples, culture and nation in history to ever make such good willed changes . . . they might have genuine grievances about the changes and maybe about some of the peoples and practices they have adopted to be co-citizens which any decent honest person refugee or not should have reason enough to understand.

. . . then we will only anger and frustration usually poorly expressed and understood by no-one anywhere from some of those host peoples who may have been adversely affected by the massive changes.

This author was a Vietnamese refugee who had her entire life impossibly improved via the generosity in moral nature and in actual resources which the Australian system but mostly its common people but she still complains. Why?

Why is the mind structure of those like this author so fragile and so unsure of its grounding that ANY comment or remark which depicts some person of refugee or ethnic status as being wrong in some matter or even bad as an individual . . . will shock her back into the shell of small mindedness and defensive posturing? That is just because some white person claims that 7 Indians who came on boat claiming to be refugees were in that indivual white person’s opinion . . . . not genuine but maybe just advantageous?

I aks this – DOES THERE EXIST ANY UNIVERSE in which ANY ethnic person can be bad or criminal or corrupt and can this apply to a refugee? Further, if so does this scenario ALLOW for a white person to be the one who points it out?

This is exactly what is wrong with our refugee policies.

Here we have someone who has been allowed into our country, supported no doubt by our welfare for a considerable time.

She has then had an expensive education, most of it paid for by the parents of Oz born prospective student she prevented from gaining a place, & is still bitching.

Even worse she is a policy adviser, when her life experience means she comes from an entirely different perspective from those with long roots in this country. I can not believe her advice would be from the perspective of the majority in my community.

I guess anyone doing a PhD at the university of Melbourne would not have a perspective anything like "real" Ozzies, but a this refugee would not even know anything about how we live.

No wonder we get such hopeless policies from leftie governments.