The forum here is "Robbing Peter to pay Paul" I would say $4.6 Billion plus all the associated cost will have to be stolen from other things or funded by raising taxes

Yes Philip, so at what point do we say, that's enough!

Is it ten billion, fifteen, twenty.

Do,we cut back on health, education, or do we slash pensions, remove grants, do we cut funding to tech colleges.

Something has to give if we continue supporting these illegals, especially if all we can do is talk about it.

In a couple of sentences rechtub you've led to the "illegals" consuming the entire federal budget.
In the first place, they are not illegals. But, like the Opposition leader you appear to have some difficulty parsing that sentence.
In the second place, we are talking about 18,000 people out of a population of twenty three million, or 0.078%, less than one tenth of one percent.
But, as I've observed before, rechtub, what you lack in fact, you more than make up for with hyperbole.
But in any debate, there comes a time, mate, when you simply have to drag yourself - okay, kicking and screaming perhaps - back to reality, or at least to a place where reality is distantly visible on the horizon.
Anthony
http://www.observationpoint.com.au

85% of that twenty three million are still not on welfare after 5 years, and do not want to learn English without which they can not be employed, because if they have an accident and say I could not read the sign the Government will have the employer in court.
Also none of that 0.078% are homeless but there are thousands of the twenty three million homeless.

Anthonyve,
Well, you're obviously part of the agenda. The 0.078% you so easily dismiss the impact of will be a far greater percentage within a generation but I know you're fully aware of that otherwise you wouldn't push the barrow. Your "compassion" has nothing to do with commission has it ?
There's a slight chance I'm wrong but you certainly provide sufficient ground for conjecture.

Individual,
Commission?
what on earth are you banging on about?
Anyway, to put your mind at rest, I'm a semi-retired, financially independent, ex-corporate executive who writes and plays music to amuse myself.
And who cares about social justice.
Anthony
http://www.observationpoint.com.au