Send them all back:
Boat people and plane people.
Misplaced "compassion" is rightly viewed as weakness and taken advantage of.
Howard was not weak and the boat people dried up.
Rudd is weak and the boat people and people smugglers know it.
Australia has the right to shape its own destiny,
not be dictated to by lifestyle shoppers.

Proxy wrote, "Australia has the right to shape it's own destiny".

Now, don't forget that from 1788 we didn't give the right to Aborigines to "shape their own destiny in their own country".

Proxy, if you "truly" believe that Australia has the right to shape it's own destiny, then you must also believe that the Aboriginal Nation also had the same right way back from 1788 onwards. So tell us Proxy, tell us about your activities in defence of Aboriginal sovereignty. I'm sure you've been very active in this area, and that you don't practice hypocracy

Crackcup, are you afraid that boat people will do to us what our ancestors did to the Aboriginal people?

benq,
<<hypocracy>>
Is that governance by hypocrites?
I'm sure the term would be widely applicable.

The Aboriginals had no capacity to defend their borders,
and are fortunate indeed that it was the British who colonised this country.

Australia's current inability to defend it's borders is borne of an ideological sickness infecting the minds of multiculturalists and other relativists who elevate that ideology above Australia's own sovereignty.

I support Australian sovereignty against those who seek to undermine it but I don't support the lost cause of Aboriginal sovereignty.
The Aboriginal people can't seem to run their own communities,
so how could you expect them to run the country?

I agree with Examinator, C.J Morgan, boat people are not issue for Australia of sufficient magnitude to defy International conventions, understandings and Law about.

It's a beat up from Australia's hillbilly right. What scares me, is when I ask myself the question , "just how many Australian's share these xenophobic attitudes exactly"?.

I don't think I want to know.

And Benq is a student of history pointing out the obvious flaws in a philosophy of prejudice

Thanks Proxy for your reply. It's good to know that you at least openly admit your hypocracy on the matter: Some wouldn't. It gives us a more accurate idea of where you're coming from. Thanks.