Philip S, "Anyone for some multicultural integration just watch the attack on video of one of at least 6 victims in Adelaide by low life African 20 yo youth"

http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/31532598/man-arrested-after-six-hurt-woman-hospitalised-after-mans-king-hit-rampage/

There are many examples available daily, see here,
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/may/05/neil-prakash-most-senior-australian-fighting-with-isis-killed-in-iraq-airstrike

However the leftist 'Progressives' of Labor and Greens continually shrug off any responsibility for the negative consequences of their activism and policies. Fortunately they have that informal editorial policy of 'Progressivism' of the ABC on their side :(

No, it's not just selfishness.

If it were merely selfishness, we'd exploit them for our own benefit. Instead we're spending billions to keep them away and gaining nothing.

The truth is far worse:
Asylum seekers are victims of systematic vilification.
Australians are almost constantly assuming the worst, as the comments in this thread demonstrate.
Policy is based on assuming the worst, because politicians discovered that condemning refugees was electorally popular. So instead of screening the undesirables out we're treating everyone as undesirables. Instead of helping refugees get work, we assume they'll always be a burden on the taxpayers. We're preventing them from coming here safely, condemning them for trying to get here in unsafe boats, and persecuting them in the name of "saving lives at sea".

We should adopt a selfish policy; it would be an enormous improvement.

Bruce, to quote a touch of your essay; "the ruling class and politicians.", "sycophantic lackeys," "gutlessly self serving", "create a ruling elite", "the suffering middle class?", "The black force of Border Protection", " to "'save' our supremacy" and on and on you go. What an embarrassing, potty mouthed, name calling bully you do appear to be. Have you any conceivable idea how much damage you do the 'cause' you wish to progress with these rants?. As a rational, average Australian citizen, what an excruciating embarrassment you are.

Bruce Haig: Asylum seekers are victims of selfishness.

One word. Crap.

Asylum Seekers, the ones who come in an illegally manner (boats), are the ones who are selfish & I for one am glad they will never be settled in Australia.

Yes Philip S, I think you are right. The southern area like Cheznia
might be a different matter as those areas are moslem.

The problem in Egypt is very serious due to their declining oil income.
It was the declining food & fuel subsidies that over threw Mubarik.

Things are getting tough when even Saudi Arabia is getting worried.
The Bin Ladin Construction Corp in Saudi Arabia has sacked between
50,000 and 70,000 employees in the last couple of weeks.

It appears that the war with Yemen is burning cash very fast.

Screening the undesirables out is not helped by (we know best) egos (that can't fit in the same room as their owners) that routinely miss the bad apples in the barrel and as history informs, invites them in, to in some cases, run a people smuggling operation from here! Why in heavens name would someone other than an undesirable career criminal chose to destroy their bona fide identifying documentation?

You know the passports and visas that allowed them to travel to Malaysia or Indonesia, where in fact for most Muslims, there's comparative safety, always providing you don't flout their laws.

If only to be completely fair and even handed these folk must go back up the transport chain then wait their turn in line with other refugees. Many of who have waited far longer and in vastly more deplorable conditions!

There are some 60 million of those rotting their lives away in generational refugee camps! Some of who hit the (where is Islam?) news after being bombed to blazes (murdered) by the Syrian military!?

Even so, for the bleeding hearts like Bruce; if they haven't arrived in our waters as undocumented irregulars, they don't get a farthing's worth of their hysteria laden compassion!

Without question we could find hundreds of thousands, not given to using moral blackmail to achieve an "enforced" outcome, far more deserving of our charity!

And it bets the hell out of me why we haven't deployed covertly deployed space age lie detection technology to enable us to select (in a full an overflowing quota) potential future citizens, who will be able to be properly assimilated.

We already have enough (no go) ghettos that have in some cases degenerated into little more than training camps for anti Australian terrorist training camps!?
Alan B.