/// Treat the cause not the effect ///

This is the latest smart arse quip that is doing the rounds.

What is, “the cause”?

If you are a true believer and swallow the line that most who land on our shores are poor souls escaping persecution. How do you remove the offending regimes, especially when, each an every time Western powers become involved in a such, they are roundly blamed for being “the cause ”?

If you, like me, believe that most who land on our shores are economic migrants. How do you solve famine & squalor driven by overpopulation and bad management,when you have no mandate to impose birth control or sound economic policy.(and lets not overlook the fact that we already give away $billons each years towards that end!)

No, for my money, it’s far, far easier to stop the boats, than “Treat the cause” .

How to stop the boats?

One thing for sure is that the

Answer is not here

How to stop the boats?

Simple.

Just make Tony Abbott PM and magically everything will be fixed - refugees, interest rates, wars, hospitals, budget deficits - even floods.

Whilst there is no perfect solution to the boats, it is clear that the ALP's change in the policy is a huge step in the wrong direction.

Whilst the supporters of the ALP policy might like to kid themselves that the 5-10% increase in refugees world wide lead to the sudden 5000% increase in boat arrivals, most of us aren't that stupid.

Australia takes about 13500 refugees a year. In 2010 nearly half of these in 2010 came from the cashed up boat people. Many of whom flew to Indonesia to hop on a boat.

The question of whom we accept and on what criteria is being decided by the smugglers based on who can pay.

Stop the boats indeed

Treat the cause not the effect

End war and famine

Agree