Rechtub, your post is difficult to interpret, but anyway...
I didn't suggest all Australians are selfish, but I can certainly make room for the notion that quite a few are.
And some of those would be the folk agonizing over a few thousand refugees amongst a population of twenty three million.
And a few others are those who resent that our taxes are ised to support those who are struggling.
Anthony
http://www.observationpoint.com.au

Anthonyve - I would say a cost of $4.6 Billion dollars for the latest Government scheme to stop boat is not small change that is before the usual blow out in costs by 100 to 200% in less than 1month close to 2000 have arrived a lot by the royal Australian taxi service we call a navy. The last boat with 99 on it was not even detected by anyone till
Federal Police boarded the boat at the entrance to a island's lagoon at Cocos Islands.
Border protection can't even find a fishing boat, what is the good of wasting Billion for these new Navy Destroyers.

You can have someone with a university degree sweeping the streets, because the job has to be done by someone. Therefor everybody deserves a livable wage. What training, or no training has got nothing to do with it. A non productive job shouldn't mean you are a lesser person.

Wooden fishing boats don't show up to well on radar.
You have to be careful of what you do and don't do, if there are legal ramifications to your actions, you do not have a solution at all.
Sounds very well don't pick them up, send them back, not realistic when it comes down to it.

Phillip S,
As a non secuitur, your post works admirably well.
Meaning, I don't understand it's relevance.
Anthony
http://www.observationpiont.com.au

A non productive job shouldn't mean you are a lesser person.
579,
Academia is at the fore front in making that distinction but constantly bleating equal rights.
A non-productive worker should indeed not be seen as a lesser person, they just should be paid less.
Many in Authority would be below the poverty line if that policy were to be implemented.