...and other tax benefits for the already wealthy. The next
election is very important - to weigh the pros and cons
of the type of direction in which this country needs to go.
That will be your chance to do something about it.

Yes Lexi, but unfortunately, governments change their minds mid steam, and what we voted for, often no longer happens. Both sides by the way.

...What's wrong with economic migrants?
Cossomby, if migrants wish to migrate to Australia, they should go via the appropriate channels, which these are not.

That's what's wrong with these economic migrants.

< maybe the ones we really need for the future of this country are those who are prepared to risk all to get here.>

Yes, but why support organised crime when you could devise alternatives? Your condition that migrants should "risk all" would also be satisfied by having potential Aussies run across a mine field. TV rights could be sold to the highest bidder, and no doubt the TV networks would want to make the course a bit more difficult so as to maintain ratings.

The truth is that the Australian Government is totally responsible for the crime, the deaths, and the cost as it sets the rules which gives great advantage to those who risk all. A TV network would be torn asunder and its executives jailed for doing the same, and rightly so.

The rules must change.

Cossomby,
Could you please provide some evidence that low IQ migrants from the Horn Of Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan are anything but a burden to their host societies?
Median IQ
Sudan:72
Ethiopia:63
Afghanistan:83
Pakistan: 81
India: 81

Thus far the bulk of our immigration has been from populations which have a median IQ of around 100, Europeans and Northeast Asians,we have a complex society where people are expected to be able to function at that level to succeed. It's also demonstrably true that people of low intelligence fail in this environment, so your desire for legions of Third world innovators and entrepreneurs is not based on anything but wishful thinking, if these people had anything to offer the rest of the world in the first place they wouldn't be in their current state. Diverse human populations developed differently and unfortunately for White idealists evolution doesn't stop at the neck, it's been acting upon people's brains as well.

Median IQ
Sudan:72
Ethiopia:63
Afghanistan:83
Pakistan: 81
India: 81
Jay of Melbourne,
what's the IQ of an ALP supporter, just curious. Can Coalition supporters ever achieve the low levels of ALP or is that not possible ? I mean what if they really tried ?
They must be well below that of the migrants if the migrants can outsmart them by the thousands for so long & so openly.

SM.,

The following link will explain things to you:

http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/3886792.html

onthebeach,

I can only assume that
you're simply stirring in trying to attribute all
sorts of opinions to me. I said nothing of the sort
that you're implying. And as far as refugees
are concerned, I stand on my posting record.
Perhaps you should check that before posting in future.

rehctub,

All refugee applications are assessed according
to set criteria by the appropriate agencies.
That is what Australia is obligated to do in being
a signatory to the Refugee Convention. Whether this
will change in the future, I guess we'll have to wait
and see who's elected into government and what decisions
are made in dealing with this complex problem.

All refugee applications are assessed according
to set criteria by the appropriate agencies.
Lexi,
that would be fine if the public servants dealing with this knew what appropriate was & if those agencies had other interests then just obtaining as much funding as possible.
I recall a fairly high ranking officer replying to my asking as to how he thought this issue should be dealt with. His reply, mate all I'm interested in is getting my Super. I know many do not share this mentality but those who do are in these jobs.