CJ, I strongly agree and strongly disagree with you. In your second last post, you wrote;

“I'd be comfortable with an increase in our refugee intake to a level of 30,000 (or more) in tandem with the removal of other incentives for increasing our population.”

Absolutely.

But….

“This entire thread is an essentially dishonest attempt to stir up the latent xenophobic sentiments of that self-interested proportion of our community who oppose Australia having a humanitarian foreign policy that demands that we live up to our treaty obligations to accept genuine refugees, isn't it?”

Not at all. It is an essential debate.

The onshore asylum-seeker / people-smuggling ‘option’ MUST be shut down entirely.

Rudd’s watering down of the policy on this issue stands out as one of the stupidest political decisions in the history of this country.

But….

“This entire thread is an essentially dishonest attempt to stir up the latent xenophobic sentiments of that self-interested proportion of our community who oppose Australia having a humanitarian foreign policy that demands that we live up to our treaty obligations to accept genuine refugees, isn't it?” (CJ)

"Not at all. It is an essential debate." (Ludwig)

Wee-e-elll,..er no. The post before yours confirms what CJ is saying.

I assume EVO is short for evolution. Posts like the one I refer to, show that that tag is entirely appropriate,-if only to prove that some folk have NOT evolved and are still dragging their knuckles.......

EVO2; why don't you stand on the coast in some sort of animal cloth, and a roughly hewn club with nails in it.

It would make you feel much better. (I suspect you'd look better too).

Ginx

EVO2; why don't you stand on the coast in some sort of animal cloth, and a roughly hewn club with nails in it.

It would make you feel much better. (I suspect you'd look better too).

Why Ginxy! Do you think it would help. smile.

EVO

Yabby
Lack of wisdom? Perhaps you need a dictionary no better yet you need to think your stance through a bit better. Pity you didn't watch Q& A the other night. The issue was well covered.
In your terms All those silly workers who are suffering from Asbestos diseases JHI were well justified in their lack of regard for them and the law. They were meeting a market need.
Essentially it's the same principal. We as a country are contracted international agreements to take refugees.
Some people don't have queues to jump.
Caring is all so lacking in wisdom. Best to be rigid and binary minded
As for the contradiction in govt attitudes …..if only running a country was that simple. :-)

Yesterday I came in in the middle of a discussion on this topic (on TV), so I don't know who the speaker was.

He referred to 2008.

Italy took 35,000 refugees.

Australia took 200.

Whatever your point of view; we ALL know full well that if the media choose to bring a topic to the forefront and make it a big issue-they will. And they have.

(For the record, we had more boat refugees arrive here in the first 4 months of 2008, than we have had in 2009).

*We as a country are contracted international agreements to take refugees.*

Duh Examinator. You don't say lol.

Perhaps you had better read through some of the posts as to what
I have actually suggested, for your last post was basically
dribble.