Yuyutsu

The failures can live here until they die.

But, you are wrong about their offspring automatically being citizens if they are born here.

At least one of the parents of offspring must be an Australian citizen for the offspring to qualify. Anyone born here to non-citizens is also a non-citizen. You might be thinking of the U.S, where they are automatically citizens. In Australia, they are not.

As you say, the failures will continue to use up our resources, work and pay tax, on a permanent visa, without the benefits of citizenship. I think that their children can apply for citizenship after the age of 10; but I'm not sure about that.

In my daily walks, I see numbers of elderly people shuffling about, probably on a family reunion visas and required to be provided for by their families, not Australian taxpayers

Dear Ttbn,

"Where one or both parents are Australian citizens or a permanent residents, a child born in Australia automatically acquires Australian citizenship. As soon as the baby is born, the parents may apply for an Australian passport in respect of the child. If both parents are permanent residents, the child will become an Australian citizen before they do." - http://www.gotocourt.com.au/immigration/children-born-australia-citizens/

«In my daily walks, I see numbers of elderly people shuffling about, probably on a family reunion visas and required to be provided for by their families, not Australian taxpayers»

Yes, while I already voiced my view that visas should not be required to enter Australia, I agree that this should always be the case, that the families should provide, not the tax-payer, regardless of one's visa type.

learn them by heart for the test and tell them what they like to hear.

Yuyutsu,

I think it's all just about money. i mean, just look at the people residing here since money instead of cultural or ethnic background got immigration agents spring up on every street corner.

Sorry AC,

Just got your test results, you put Kebab at question 197 the answer is Meat Pie, automatic failure, you are being deported to GAZA! That's better than the bloke who answered Toyota and not Holden as his favourite car at question 563, he's in for a public flogging before hanging, first offence, we go easy on em'.

Which ethnic group would have the approval from the Aborigines to migrate to their lands ?
Which migrant do the Aborigines believe would compensate them better than the Europeans ?
I never got any answers to that question over the years.

Indyvidual

Bit off topic but interesting, because a minority of loud-mouthed aboriginal-identifiers have made it clear that they don't like us.

They, of course, don't have a clue what the people they claim to be connected to thought: all several hundred little tribes of them.

We do know that there was little serious resistance to the British arrival, and the aborigines were quick to cotton on to the easy way of getting food from the settlers instead of wandering out looking for it, and often enduring periods of little food of any sort.

You won't get a sensible answer from the descendants of aborigines today because, like the rest of us they don't have a clue.

But, they were a damn sight better off with the British Empire than they would have been with any of the other Empires.