I think the solution here is quite obvious: naval mines in the Timor Sea. That should keep them from reaching our shores.

Cheers,

Tony

DiamondPete - Obviously when you read you put your own biased interpretation on things, AGAIN you are so wrong to the point of watch out for the drug squad.
Quote "(1) No you wouldn't." Of course you know what I would do better than I would DELUDING yourself again.
Quote "(2) EVERY refugee in the world is an "economic" refugee" Here you really show your ignorance an economic refugee leaves for a better LIFESTYLE they are not covered by the UN convention. A refugee leaves because of violence etc.
In 3) you failed to show why Africa and Syria are different.
In 4) worldwide there are 42 million refugees, displaced people or potential Good luck trying to find any country willing to take on that.
Quote "Your Indonesian comment shows your paranoia and "Fortress Australia" mentality." WRONG again

Quote "Regarding your paranoiac defecit comment ... In 2012/2013 there will be a SURPLUS." NOW HERE YOU REALLY SHOW YOUR IGNORANCE there will be no surplus if Juliar and Co don't get there act together.
Your whole reply lacked any credibility or substance.

Poor old pepper has shown his paranoiac, intolerant, racist, totalitarian colors here on this thread.

Pepper calls for ....

(1) intolerance of "immigration" (pepper would make an efficient Nazi)

(2) refugees to be labeled "freeloaders" (yep, Nazis are pretty intolerant)

(3) accuses his "freeloaders" specifically of forming closed communities here (but he approves of Aussies forming enclaves when they are overseas)

(4) says migrants "impose their rule" (sure, they force us all to live under "their" rules ha ha ha ha .... poor paranoiac pepper)

(5) says migrants "impose their religious ideals" (pepper thinks we are all forced to be Muslims by migrants ... ha ha ha)

(6) he says they decimate our finances by "sucking the public purse dry" (umm pepper baby .... Australia's finances are in good shape and the envy of the world ... glad I could educate you on this)

(7) he says our health system has been decimated by migrants (our health system remains one of the best in the entire world)

(8) he says our national debt is out of control (our debt to GDP ratio is one of the BEST in the entire world ... the entire 1st world envies our well controlled national debt)

(9) he says our Prime Minister is a criminal (he can't name ONE criminal offence the PM has been convicted of)

(10) he wants to send migrants and refugees to remote islands and then place them in rubber dinghies (pepper wants totalitarian control to do as he wishes to migrants and refugees).

Poor, sad, old pepper. A true paranoiac believer in old fashioned, Fortress Australia ..... still stuck in the 1800s. Still yet to enter the modern age. Inhumane, contemptuous towards and fearful of difference, change and diversity.

Pepper's post says it all regarding the type of person he is. So sad. But a small minority of radicals are like that. Australia has always had a minority of people with those extreme views. As the more educated our country has become, these types of extremists have diminished in number. But they still exist.

Phil baby, pepper and the naval miner Tony, should form a comedy trio .... we can call them the totalitarian version of The Three Stooges. Don't worry folks ... Larry, Curly and Moe will protect Fortress Australia from the wicked, horrid "invasion". Oh Lordy me, they better hurry .... we're almost ALL Muslims now, and those wicked refugees are ruling Australia with an iron fist already; forcing us all to be Muslims. The end is near, please please save us Larry, Curly and Moe.

Landrights4all, no I’d go with ‘require’.

It would not be mandatory if a person can put forward a very good reason for not having to help with NTW or something similar. But otherwise, they should have to. You were only talking about 15 hours a week.

It would be a case of ‘we help you, you help us’. And it would be beneficial for them as well, in learning more about Australian society at a grass-roots level.

Asylum seekers get substantial handouts as soon as they get here. If they are then found not to be refugees, they don’t have to pay this back. So it is very fair and reasonable that they should be required to do a bit of work of some sort.

In 2007 there were 4 asylum seekers in detention in well maintained facilities.

Now thanks to Labor's sanctimonious policies we have a manufactured humanitarian disaster and the worst humanitarian reputation ever. The architect of this multi billion dollar disaster is Juliar as shadow immigration minister.

As for a comedy trio, we have Juliar, Whine Swan, and Chrisis Bowen, the three moronic amigos have done more damage to border protection than the Japanese in the 40s.