I'm sorry I don't know the author.

Probably not peculiar to Aussie.
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That probaby sums up the reasons for the opposition.

David

VKU what ever. and others

More ill informed scare mongering. Pity there isn't a lot of fact in the hyperbole. Just a jingoistic jaundiced view.

One point the author missed was that types like views as expressed in addition to the above flaws they show an underlying principal. To find a scape goat some one to blame for their fears. particularly of ANY change or they might be missing out on something.

Objectively, what is so great about anglo saxon or white? Perhaps, that they are paternalistic self interested wanna be elitists like every other racial colour or hue. Get over your self.

He's at it again. Has Examinator ever posted something in which he does not accuse those who disagree with him, & his fellow bleeders of being "ill informed"? I think not.

He must be a wonderful bloke, to be always right, always know everything, at least in his eyes.

Personally I'm sick of all these do-gooders who want me to pay for their conscience. I wonder what dreadful things they have done for theirs to need so much massaging.

I feel no obligation to a people who started, & lost a very nasty war. I fell less than no oblication to those who have funds to pay people smugglers, after that war. I have to wonder where those funds came from.

Now if Mr Boey, & Examinator feel so obliged to these people, I suggest they sponsor one, & PERSONALLY pay for their expenses until they are self supporting, if ever. Personally, I can think of at least one hundred thousand better uses for my money. Can't think of many worse, actually.

We always have other do-gooders crying that we don't have enough public housing in Oz, for our "deserving" people, as it is, so why fill it up with these failed warmongers?

From what we have seen on the news of these people, they would be about the last we would want living here.

Politics is a fickle mistress, and you are only as good as your last mistake.

John Howard learnt this with work choices after labor painted it as the big bogey.

What is patently clear is that a strong majority of the Aus public is dead set against asylum seekers coming in by boat. The polls vary from 65% to 85% on taking stronger action.

Irrespective of the moral arguments, Rudd has given Turnbull an openning, and the coalition has stuck the knife in and twisted it, both on being too soft, and the poor treatment of those in detention in Indonesia. What is worse for Rudd, is that it is capturing the attention of the public who percieve this as being soft and incompetent. The stellar majority that labor holds could rapidly evaporate before November 2010. It is probably one of the best examples of wedge politics I have seen for years.

Listening to the parliamentry debate there is a huge focus on immigration, and it is clear that Rudd has no answers, is twisting in the wind, and Turnbull is not going to cut him any slack.

Until these issues are resolved, it would be suicidal for labor to even contemplate any further relaxations.

I do not understand, nobody is against refugees coming here. By boat across dangerous seas, emotional backmail for the richer asylum seekers, the expectation of rescue. We are simply not geographically located to morally support this type of passage.

I feel we can take a lot more but the debate is never about that. It seems to offend those that live by TV screens and celebrity culture and think it is Australian Refugee Idol and they barrack for their favourite contestant. So many more face a far harsher reality. Just because they do not get media they are not important? That is what you are saying. Very omplex issues and complete ignorance of the reality of border security..

For eg You say just ask an Aboriginal..

Why don't you ask them, they may not appreciate a boat load of asylum seekers washing up on their Islands and bringing ashore diseases..once again. So yes, go ask them. Please.