Lexi - this may be so in the past but present conflict zones the greater proportion of refugees are women and children or whole families, BUT with these Iranian, Afghans and other resent arrivals this is not the case 95% men on most of the boats.
The Government rejected the TPV it may have helped. If the new law is to come in in 1 months time I foresee LOTS of boats arriving via the Australian navy taxi service.
Misc - The refugees call the navy when there is no problem how many will be charged by the police NOT ONE.
But "Tasmanian man who made hoax mayday calls has been ordered to pay the Australian Maritime Safety Authority $30,000 for sparking a major air and sea search and to do 140 hours of community service and set a good behavior period of 18 months..

If you take away the carrot, accommodation, money, vouchers, meals ect, you will deter them from coming.

Give them somewhere to live, very basic, very basic food, water, but defnately no money. None what so ever.

In Africa the UN give them a tent and some food and water end of story. That will stop them.

Many immigrants worked for a couple of years on the Snowy project, before moving into civilisation, & they had come by invitation.

I can see no reason why these gate crashers should not be required to do a couple of years useful work, before being given access to our towns. There is much northern national park disappearing under rubber vine, & prickly acacia. A couple of years in work camps, [like the snowy], clearing this stuff by hand would be a suitable contribution to the society they wish to have foster them.

The fact that this is hard hot work would be a good filter, to find those worth having. Bludgers would be unlikely to come once the entry qualifying period became common knowledge.

Agreed Hasbeen. Some sort of work-for-the-benefits that they receive once having been found to be refugees should be in order.

Misc note - It was said that 90% of the refugees are found to be genuine. BUT Cap't emad was classed as a genuine refugee Now that was a laugh. So it shows the process to classify them as genuine is flawed meaning that 90% genuine could mean some of the 90% fooled the bureaucrats or they were to lazy to do there jobs properly or even the politicians told them what to do.