"For example we get 160000 plus migrants per year so where would we house that many until they got used to our society and the cost would be enormous."

Banjo,

Most of the 160,000 at the moment are economic migrants, so many of those would - and do - slot in relatively easily in Australian life. So no "quarantine assistance" would be required for them.

For others, though, particularly people that come from an urban or tribal background, they can add quite a lot as a group if they are put in a community which is more isolated from the mainstream - say in a country town. There have been examples where Afghans have worked in the meatworks industry in the country and filled an employment hole there and are good workers to boot.

The idea can be made to work, if there is a "horses for courses" approach taken. It just means working out what people are best at and then handling them more intelligently than we do at the moment.

RobP,
From what you say about treating people properly it sounds like you have the makings of a decent PM.

JF Aus,

Unfortunately, I've got my limitations and am not - and would probably never be - able to be a professional politician.

However, I'm happy to provide ideas that might help, and insights that reflect, the ordinary person. I'm pretty sure more than a few pollies read this site, so I'm hoping they'll be able to put the better ideas into practice.

RobP,

I am likewise. Do our best. Hopefully there are some decent people out there that will see through the lies and deceit and political spin.

If we need any more migrants,as we surely do, then why not take them from Africa? I have met with and spoken to many from different parts of Africa,north,south east and west, and they have all fitted in superbly and are doing well.They all spoeak English and are literate and educated.They dress immacutely,the women more than the men,really care for their kids, and are so glad to be here,they make no impossible and inimical demands on our culture which is so much like theirs.They mix in with us so well,the girls marry Aussie blokes and their men are often seen arm in arm with white girls. Their dress code is identically ours. So what is the problem?
I stress that we should be taking more from the refugee camps all over Africa and elsewhere.After health checks and a period of quarantine they should be accepted openly and warmly into our communities.
Lets have NO MORE migrants who live in closed communities and who hate us and demand that their customs and laws be accepted as ours.No more separate schools and separate curricula.
We have had a gut full of exclusivity they practice in OUR COUNTRY. They are not in their OWN COUNTRY.

socratease

socratease

<<Lets have NO MORE migrants who live in closed communities and who hate us and demand that their customs and laws be accepted as ours.No more separate schools and separate curricula. We have had a gut full of exclusivity they practice in OUR COUNTRY.>>

Goody! No more Scotch College. No more Kings School.

While you're at, let's abolish the HR Nicholls Society and the Bennelong Club? Sell off the assets of the Melbourne Club and the Australia Club.

As you quite righty point out Soc, we've had a gut full of exclusivity in OUR COUNTRY.