Yes unfortunately the author is parroting the Greens standard "its all-Australia's-fault" mantras.

What must frustrate the author is that much of Western Europe now realises its invitation to illegal immigrants about 20 months ago was wrongheaded and merely led to deaths at sea.

Western Europe is keenly watching and emulating how Australia built up its successful anti-illegal, economic, immigrant policy.

Any of these illegal immigrant's rich enough to pay people smugglers $10,000 a seat should worry about the real refugees who have no money at all.

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good". Samuel Johnson.

The question for the treatment of illegals for Australia, is how to balance help for them, and maintain a local reality of the impact of excessive immigration policies, at home among the locals.

And since Rohingyans are inherently Muslim, the West is turning a blind eye to the most persecuted ethnic group globally. This is very unfair!

http://weareiguacu.com/why-are-muslims-persecuted-in-myanmar/

>The west is turning a blind eye?<

Well we have been all too frequently condemned for sticking our noses into regional conflicts, that are centuries old and centuries in the making!

Even so, other nearer neighbors are also turning a blinder eye? They include Malaysia and Indonesia, both of which are inherently Muslim and therefore less foreign to the muslim Rohingyas?

And indeed, considerably closer, whereas in the case of Indonesia, with a larger middle class demographic than Australia could resettle these landless folk/squatters, nobody seems to want? And Malaysia is hardly a third world country but a thriving Democracy!

What's patently unfair, is folk who think it's exclusively our problem! They look with envy at maps witch lead some to thinking we could take many more?

Not understanding that our arid interior is mostly desert that supports very little and even then, only spasmodically!

That all the economy, wealth creation and habitable land, is largely limited to a green fringe around the coast! And that's where we need to put the house already full sign!
Alan B.

What utter garbage from the depth of a pretend discipline.

What we are giving these boatpeople, genuine or fraudsters, is what they claim they wanted, a safe haven. We are picking up the entire cost of supporting them in this safe haven. Surely that is all that can be expected from us. Surely we can't be expected to like them, or want them amongst us.

Here we have a clown, who is either a fool, or a fraudster himself. Either he is so easily fooled that he actually believes the fraudsters & wants us to bleed for them, or is simply demanding we keep paying him lots of money to insult us with his trickery.

I don't give a damn which he is, I just want him doing something useful, perhaps driving a shovel in a road work gang. However if he is as stupid as you would have to be to believe this drivel, he may not be able to handle that, so perhaps the job on the broom.

“In conclusion, my view is that, in the absence of knowing the right way to go in any situation, we cannot continue on the wrong way. “

The author is obviously in a quandary. He is in effect saying that there are only wrong ways to go, where there is no knowing the right way to go in any situation. Consequently, it is pointless assigning problem-solving to psychologists in those situations.

A good article showing why difficult political decisions affecting the whole country should not be left to sincere but politically naive psychologists.