welcome bit late but in all truth while for some a resident racist I truly and warmly welcome you to our country yours now and mine.
I will put it in these words, we select Migrants.
Refugees, boat people at least select us.
A former conservative Prime Minister, not a bad man, first dropped the need for selection.
During the Lebanese civil war.
Me being a racist or realist you decide,says that bought about much of the friction between SOME, Muslims and Some OF US.

Dear Zorka,

You may find the following website of some
interest. It's an opinion piece written by
Malcolm Fraser, a former Liberal Prime Minister
of Australia who is very critical of the way the issue
has been politicised by some politicians to try
to use scare tactics for their political advantage:

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/how-australia-can-solve-its-asylum-seeker-problem-20110624-1gjlt.html

Good Luck with your research on this issue.

Zorka, you wrote:

<< Australia could afford double intake of refugees and asylum seekers without any threat to the stability of population >>

Agreed.

I think that our immigration program should be about 90% refugees.

Immigration should be reduced to net zero so that we can achieve a stable population. At this level, which would be about 30 000 per annum as far as I can ascertain, we could take in more than twice as many refugees as we currently do.

But not asylum seekers. Australia should decide entirely which refugees are to come to this country, being those from anywhere in the world that are in the most need of resettlement.

<< Basically there is no difference between asylum seekers and refugees >>

While the big majority of asylum seekers are found to be refugees, some are not. The two terms are not the same. And asylum seekers are generally not as needy and are much more able to seek out asylum than those languishing in camps in Eritrea for example.

Sure, most asylum seekers have a very good reason for undertaking the treacherous and expensive journey to Australia. But, speaking in broad terms, they are not the most needy of people that Australia should be helping, we shouldn’t be tolerating porous borders and we should have full sovereign control over who comes here, as should all countries.

Australia’s humanitarian effort should be greatly improved, by increasing our refugee intake and by considerably increasing our international aid and focussing it much better on the things that cause people to become refugees ….while at the same time closing down onshore asylum seeking.

I am aware.
Understand, in depth.
My views brand me.
But I hold the view migration and refugee in take.
Should not be based on multi cultures.
How many can point to conflicts in this country from post ww2 migrants haveing both their culture and ours?
Tell me what imported religion has not lived side by side with ours with minimal problems.
Racist that I clearly must be, I think enclaves, from SOME within the Muslim faith,are deliberately to stop integration.
This year,on National Television, I saw in Lakemba, a female reporter asking about a religions holiday.
She was surrounded by women, the younger ones dressed in head covers very friendly.
Older ones, in my country hard eyed and NASTY as she asked.
One day the world will see integration leads to one,separation leads to hate.

Basically there is no difference between asylum seekers and refugees, their lives are endangered.
Zorka,
Yes, they do endanger their lives but, a big, huge but, are these people really refugees or are they on a mission to silently invade Australia ?
If so, then they're willingly risking their lives for an agenda. There's a huge difference between having to risk your live to get away from persecution & taking risks to carry out someone's orders to gradually bring this very same persecution to a peaceful country like Australia.

WOW :)
I would not think that there will be so many replies.
We all have our opinion, and that is OK, probably we can support our arguments too.
Thanks to all that replied, I have learnt from each post.
I tend to think that people that would undertake all this sufferings for some irrational goals are rather criminals. They compare to me to people using Centrelink ( many do not need to, I know them :), corrupted politicians, or any other criminal you name it. I am afraid that stereotyping and generalization of issues or people has made Australian Child Protection, Aged Care , Immigration worse that it could off been.
Thanks for links, they have been usefull