So Runner how do you know that Britain and all those other countries are broken? Have you been there or do you get your information from reading scare mongering articles that are designed to raise your level of anger and fear?

These are exactly the same sort of articles that are used by the global warming scare mongers to make people aware of the dangers of climate change. So is it a good thing to raise your fear of muslims or to raise your fear of climate change?

I agree that Europe and the UK have problems because of the muslim refugees but it is also because of the economy; and the US has their illegal immigrants - Mexicans and a failing economy.

The world is going through a great many changes. Is it right or going to be a good thing for us here in Australia to be exempt from these changes by abandoning our humanity and that old idea of fairness?

But don't lie! There were no rapes that led to the display of bogan stupidity at Cronulla, just a few very offensive statements and actions and there is no evidence that muslims rape more often than you white blokes.

There are a great many ex-refugees mainly from Sudan in my regional town, and as a group they do create more problems for the police; but so do the indigenous people and for the same reasons. The refugees do contribute to the community, are interested in integrating and their children will be a terriffic asset to the area.

I think that the Australian Government is over exaggerating the issues in which they see, with asylum seekers. Australia only receives around 2 percent of the worldwide asylum claims, yet makes the most noise and radical policy changes. They seem to have no remorse, as these people are fleeing away from a horrible life and wouldn’t be placing their life in danger, just to as people say “Jump the que”. And moving them to Malaysia wouldn’t fix any of this. I’m glad the high courts found this unlawful, but its now up to Tony Abbot who only a few months ago said just turn the boats around and send them home. So in summary I think that the government don’t really understand the consequences of the policy changes that they are making.

Mollydukes, you ask
So Runner how do you know that Britain and all those other countries are broken?
I know people who actually left Britian for that reason. You also accuse me of lying re rapes of young woman by Muslims. Your denial by accusation is arrogant and ignorant. Try reading a little before making such accusations
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=6267
Your warped view of fairness assists in dividing and destroying societies built on a fair go. Lumping socities with total different value systems does not help anyone.

Lexi, perhaps you are not aware that there are UNHCR registered people
in Indonesia. Many thousands I believe. The ABC interviewed some of
them on 4 Corners I think it was only a few weeks ago.
The ones that come here do not all come from Indonesia, but some do.
The ones that were interviewed were awaiting their Australian papers
and had been there for years. You can understand they would not be
happy with the queue jumpers.

Runner that link you provided is exactly the type of fear mongering rubbish that I said you would be reading. It is short on facts and objective analysis. There is no evidence that the author has any understanding of the big picture, or makes any effort to see the big picture.

The clear intention of this article is to raise your level of fear and loathing of anything different.

We become better people by meeting challenges and rising above them. We become a better country by meeting challenges and increasing the diversity of our citizens. Monocultures in agriculture and human societies are very weak and will never be able to resist incursions from stronger cultures.

Remember that the original white Australians were criminals who arrived by boat and totally destroyed the mono-culture of the people who were already here. The people living here had a perfectly satisfactory life that they had worked very hard to establish and did not want to change.

But they were helpless to resist the white culture not because they were less technologically able but mainly because they did not understand the 'settlers' or what they wanted. White society has always changed and integrated other peoples and become stronger from this amalgamation.

When we have a population that includes well integrated muslims we will be stronger as a nation. We will have the capacity to understand the rest of the world and so be able to be part of that world as it changes.

It's really stupid of you to say that I am ignorant and warped and all those other insults. It makes no sense and is more evidence that you need to change your brain chemistry and develop your ability to discriminate facts from fantastic scenarios based on fear, ignorance and the tendency to abuse and bully those you disagree with.

Runner, I'm sure that friends of yours would have left Britain because of the state of the country.

Lots of people from the UK came to Australia well before there were mulims refugees to be upset about.