misanthrope - Why not? Look at the troubles Europe are in with the open door policy, crime rates going way up etc.

They now have woken up and are going to deport hundreds of thousand economic invaders.

You want them here, I and most Australians do not.

Q: If you noted, as you drove out or a small country town, several refugee advocate lawyer's buried up to their necks in sand, what would that indicate?
A: A serious local shortage of sand!
Rhrosty.

Matthew 25:32-46

seems like it is not just on Nauru where refugees are raping kids

http://www.news.com.au/world/europe/10yearold-raped-by-iraqi-migrant-at-swimming-pool-in-vienna/news-story/69abed188e157e2f425d8c204fa50f17

I see the usual Chicken Little stuff about the country being swamped by heaps of undeserving refugees.

This issue was about 270-odd traumatised women, kids and babies in need of the healing force of the Australian Fair Go.

Remember that? Never kick someone when they're down. Used to be something we prided ourselves on.

What I see on this thread is ignorance, prejudice and stomach turning cowardice.

I am most impressed by the reply of Plerdsus:

"The law must not only be an ass, it must be seen to be an ass."

Well the law need not be an ass, but it must be seen as such.

So if it was up to me, I would secretly accept all refugees on condition of silence and give them visas under changed-identities so that we are told that they were brought from refugee-camps in Jordan and Africa, etc.

Meanwhile, to deter others I would keep a group of actors on Nauru, kicking and screaming and telling horrible stories of atrocities and injustice.

This will necessarily attract every stone of condemnation - and so it should.

This is what Christian grace is all about - being good, rather than being seen as good. I hope that this is what's actually happening, but of course we will never know, nor should we.