PhilipS

I have only one point of criticism. By calling the thread “ Labor - opened the floodgate for refugees.” You tend to dignify the scammers.

The majority of boaties are not “refugees” in any way shape or form.

It would have been better and truer to have titled the thread:Labour -opened the floodgate for Illegals-and the Greens spiked the pumps.

I just hope that you people never become displaced through war or famine .... then your inhumane and selfish attitudes would change. Why? Because it would then be YOU and YOUR families seeking help.

Also, if the people coming here via boat were white, educated Christians with a similar culture to us, you would be welcoming them with open arms.

There's always been a minority of Aussies who are inherently exclusionist, insular and racist, They support a typical "Fortress Australia" mentality. Most Aussies are much better than that.

DiamondPete - You poor deluded person, you are wrong on so many points.
1. Didn't take long for the racist card to come out sorry but you are wrong I would say exactly the same NO MATTER WHERE they came from.
2. Even the UN has said most are economic refugees.
3. In Africa and Syria the refugees are families or women and children yet we get 95% men on the boats PLEASE EXPLAIN THAT ONE.
4. Last poll I saw 83% of people wanted the boats stopped that is not a minority.

Just out of interest will you have the same opinion when the 100,000 in Indonesia turn up and your taxes are raised, welfare payments drastically reduced, essential projects abandoned and they totally stuff up the social and cultural environment.

When is ENOUGH IS ENOUGH after the next boat with 200 on it or the next or next we are now at 40,000 here come more now 50,000 the cost to support them is 6 Billion dollars per year the deficit is now hundreds of Billions of dollars, please enlighten us when is ENOUGH

Phil baby ... thanks for proving the accuracy of my points with your sad reply.

(1) No you wouldn't.

(2) EVERY refugee in the world is an "economic" refugee ... THAT'S the point ... to get away from the violence, intimidation, lack of rights, war etc etc in order to live in a country that provides a stable "economy" with a future. Duh !!

(3) The men are sent on by their families for the purpose of establishing residency in many different countries the world over, in the hope that once established the families will be invited to come via safe methods. Again .... Duh !!

(4) Correct. I too want the boats stopped. I want these refugees to be ALL allocated to safe countries the world over, that they and their families should be brought to in safety. It's something called "humane" treatment. Something that some people on this thread don't possess .... basic humanity.

Your Indonesian comment shows your paranoia and "Fortress Australia" mentality.

Regarding your paranoiac defecit comment ... In 2012/2013 there will be a SURPLUS.

Oh boy, you really need an education.

You're the "classic" type of person I described in my first post. Paranoid, fearful, resistant to change, anti "outsiders", anti refugee, Fortress Australia mentality etc etc.

Ludwig, Why "require" when all you need to do is invite? The right energy is very important and we do not need to punish.

I'm a pretty tollerant guy [ Aquarian] but Iv'e about had a gutfull of bleeding hearts, imigration tollerance and bloody freeloaders coming to my country via th backdoor; forming onclaves or clossed communities, imposing their rules and religious ideals, sucking the public purse dry when I see homeless in the streets every gosh-darn day. A health system thats shot to the out housee, debt out of control, a criminal for a prime minister and people in power cowering over rules imposed by an international body of roving cocktail drinkers, whom we didn;t elect. "Iv'e had enough and I'm not going to take it anymore"
My solution - boat to bus to sea plane to nearest indonesian island; into rubber dingies and good-by.