Rhian

"I’d happily sign up for a share of that."

Go on then. Let's see you do it.

If everyone who says they care about asylum-seekers would sign up for the costs, that would solve the whole problem.

Foxy
If you're not a fake, prove it.

Hurry up and post the signed deed into this thread. Make sure you include your address for service of the writs.

The reason we can't have a rational discussion on this topic is because you're a fake.

Dear Jardine,

False labelling is no way to argue in any discussion.
You are simply baiting and stirring.
I'm not interested.

LOL Fox, Jardine K. Jardine has got you there.

Many are still asking, to no avail of course, why the very well resourced (courtesy of the Aussie taxpayer) Greens such as Bob Brown, SHY and Larissa Waters (the one with the expensive roof garden* paid for by the taxpayer) have never taken any of the previous boat arrivals into their homes.

*<Queensland Greens Senator Larissa Waters spent $414,000 on fitout for Paddington office
RENEE VIELLARIS, MATTHEW KILLORAN THE COURIER-MAIL APRIL 19, 2014

GREENS Senator Larissa Waters spent a whopping $414,000 to fit out her trendy Paddington office – more than any of her Queensland political colleagues at the time.

The office, on the top floor of a pristine-condition, split-level building on Given Tce, includes a rooftop patio with timber outdoor furniture and artificial turf.>
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/queensland-greens-senator-larissa-waters-spent-414000-on-fitout-for-paddington-office/story-fnihsrf2-1226889449998

Larissa could have some of those boat arrivals in that luxury accommodation, complete with the turf and outdoor entertainment mod cons.

These boat arrivals,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0MHRSFz6FM

Conservative Hippie, Rudd has never been, and never will be a buddy to me....I can't stand the man, or his politics.

Be careful what you say about the possibility of there being terrorist activities on our shores, as if there is ever an incident here, you will be seen to blame this Government for not continuing to keep you safe.

Monis was a political refugee granted asylum here in 1997. He came in legally by plane.
So, still no boat people terrorists have struck in Australia as far as I know.

Okay, let's take it slowly, step by step:

* suppose whoever arrives by boat is 'treated humanely', screened for economic migrants, and if found to be genuine refugees, given a de facto place in that queue, and settled in Australia, with all the benefits accruing to genuine refugees;

* if this is so, a question arises: why not simply fly people direct ? Why put them through the process of having to pay exorbitant fees and get on a leaky boat ?

Yonks ago, I enjoyed a cartoon on TV of a rabbit or coyote or some sort of Joker, in a jail cell; he checks that there's nobody around, comes out of his cell and draws a door on the wall, then goes back inside and opens the door and comes out, and escapes.

Why, one obviously wonders, why not just escape ? Why the necessity for a door ?

Similarly, why the stage of payment to smugglers and getting on leaky boats ? If they are going to be welcomed anyway, then why not just fly direct ?

Seriously.

I think you all know where this is heading .......

Suse, I didn't say Monis was off a boat. He was however an asylum seeker that went bad.

You said "Have any of the asylum seekers committed acts of terrorism in Australia?" So the answer is YES!