This article was originally published in
Online Opinion on 21st October 2011, in a
slightly different form:

http://www.independentaustralia.net/2012/politics/australias-two-biggest-lies-about-boat-people/

I think you misunderstand Lexi,
It is not illegal to claim asylum but it is illegal to arrive in other
that an official port of entry.
It is also illegal to destroy your documentation and to hide your nationality.

That cartoon at the top is quite ironic and indeed accurate.
However aborigines had not progressed for 10s of thousands of years
and the rest of the world had gone well past them.
They never even built stone houses surely a minor step in comfort.

It could have been worse, some others might have arrived.
Ask the Tibetans.

Poor old Rainier,
Just can't refrain from being stupid can ya. Those brits etc you try to taint with the same ugly colour as yourself & the rag & sandal brigade do not cost us as do the likes of you.

Tony Lavis>>If we are in the midst of an invasion then it's a bit of a damp squib. 3000 unarmed civilian peasants? Some military offensive. I think even the French could manage to repel an invasion like that<<

Why does everyone knock the French? They have the Legion and they are no pussies, not to mention the nukes and the means of delivering them.

Tony old fruit, not an invasion in the military context…a fiscal invasion. In calendar year 2012 it cost Australian taxpayers over 1 BILLION dollars to run the show, and that is just to land them

The immediate cash flow via benefits, the housing and all the other stuff including the whopping ongoing legal bill is separate and additionally ongoing.

I have no issue taking refugees from UN camps, I do not begrudge helping them with welfare and finding accommodation….but I begrudge these passport destroying fare paying parasites. Three thousand illegal freeloaders in April….and 3000 poor bastards sitting somewhere in tents just had their wait extended and hpoes dashed. I am on the side of those with nothing.

Cmon Tony, you know that is factually correct.

We could afford lots more boat people with the money saved if we got rid of the Navy & our defence Force as a whole. I mean, they're not deterring anyone wanting to come here so why have them ? What a waste all round !

Hi All
Perhaps if the capitalist and militarist forces of our "righteous", "bleeding heart" and "do gooder" western alliance had kept our greedy noses out of the Asian , middle eastern and african countries we would have avoided stirring the hornets nest from which the "illegal asylum seekers" are risking their lives in trying to escape. Dealing with these desperate people is Australia's problem and obligation under international agreement but by supporting American expansionism we are also a party to the causation.
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