Dear Shadow Minister,

It has been reported repeatedly and discussed with various authorities
on world migration that Australia does not take its fair share of refugees per capita of population compared with many countries in the Americas and Europe.

It does appear that the Opposition is unable to present any positive policies or action in the interest of the nation and will like yourself, grab at straws to upset the unthinking section of our population. The so called "Pacific Solution," fizzled out when world catastrophies and wars diminished. The world situation has changed - and is still in flux particularly in the Arab regions. Refugee numbers will continue to grow no matter what government is in control. Fear mongering is a demeaning weapon to resort to to gain favour. Its practised by radio "shock jocks" and bullies but one would expect a higher code of behaviour from our elected politicians.

How about you instead of persisting in your critique of government policies - offering some positive solutions to the global refugee problem and what role Australia should play? And please don't bring up the old chestnut of "Nauru." Why can other countries handle the problem and we simply complain and blame each other?

Lexi,

That is what Labor would like us to believe. Unfortunately according to the UNHCR the world total of refugees has dropped about 5% from 2008/9 to 2009/10. Just the number coming to Aus has increased.

The pacific solution worked, the numbers speak for themselves, as they do for the failure of the labor policy.

I have heard nothing from the ABC. Does that mean Pauline has won? I have heard even less from the earth worshippers. Does that mean they have lost?

Lexi, all they have to do is loan me & a few old navy mates one of the old patrol boats for a few of months, & I'll bet the boats stop coming, at least coming this far.

Oh, & I don't know what you are reading your propaganda from, but we take the highest percentage of refugees per capita of any developed country, & pay the highest resettlement costs to boot.

Morganzola:

...You display ignorance to the voting system. The upper house vote has the facility to apportion preferences as a voter choice.(A vote above or below the line) Not so when voting for the lower house (Representatives). If one wishes their vote not to be apportioned to the personally undesirable, one must be careful which way representative candidates apportion preferences. It’s a trap to keep the two party system healthy!

...That makes you half right at least: And was the reason for my vote for Hanson. As I explained in detail above your post, I voted for Hanson, not for any policy agreement, but strictly for protest purposes. Repeat, I don’t give a “tinkers Damn” what she stands for, that point, under the circumstances as I explained, is totally irrelevant to me.

...Hanson is not a person armoured to Abbot, who actively supported her persecution and imprisonment (over a technicality). She is a woman who has lived through the extreme of political unacceptability of both major parties; Abbot displays his vindictive intolerance of lesser mortals on his sleeve again with further cowardly attacks on the most vulnerable in our communities for nothing more than votes. He is really a careless fool, and I make 100% sure, no vote of mine directly or indirectly lands in his lap

Hmmm, I think a lot of people misread Pauline Hanson.
Originally she was very naive, but I think that changed in the school
of political hard knocks.
Everyone took up the story she was migrating to the UK.
Do people still believe what the media tells them ? I don't !
Turned out she was going on a holiday to the UK.
Did she sell her place in Ipswitch, take a holiday and then buy
a place on the Nth Coast ? Seems possible.

Is she still a member of One Nation ?
I thought I read a few years ago that she resigned.
She seems to have minimal education, but then so do a lot of clever people.
A lot of well educated people confuse education with intelligence.

I suspect she is not the source of evil of which she has been accused.
She had a friend whom she employed in her shop that was a Philipino.

If she gets in it will be interesting to see what she has to say.