Everyone,
Lets face it anyone can be a terrorist. You don't have to have a jihad or whatever. Look a Timmy McVeigh he was just a good ole home grown bomber. So lets stop being racist here and just declare anyone eligible for the tag.

Australia, not the Rudd government, has had a gut full of the boats.
No party of any shade will ever be elected again in this country if it does not try to stem the flow.
And a middle of the road thought.
*If we do not show we want them stopped the number per year will soon be over 6 figures*.
Bias Bigotry call me what you wish.
The enclavism and many other isms of SOME of these people is behind our rejection of other than hand selected migration.
And most not a few, are *convinced* economic refugees out number true refugees.

Australia, not the Rudd government, has had a gut full of the boats.
No party of any shade will ever be elected again in this country if it does not try to stem the flow.
And a middle of the road thought.
*If we do not show we want them stopped thenumber per year will soon be over 6 figures*.
Bias Bigotry call me what you wish.
The enclavism and many other isms of SOME of these people is behind our rejection of other than hand selected migration.
And most not a few, are *convinced* economic refugees out number true refugees.

Belly, "And most not a few, are *convinced* economic refugees out number true refugees"

The criminal gangs are not going to make a mistake and shuttle people for free are they? The push is from well-heeled middle class economic migrants who will not go through immigration after stepping off a plane. To be blunt, they would travel by plane with papers in hand if they thought they would get the deal they get from going just outside Indonesian waters and using the satellite phone to call their contacts in Oz to phone for their Navy cab to arrive at an engine-destroying rate of knots. The emergencies are orchestrated by the criminal gangs. It is fundamental to their highly successful business model.

In Australia, the many $$millions a year from taxpayers feeds a host of professionals and advocates who earn their daily bread from what has become a very profitable industry. There are so many snouts in the trough of taxpayers' money.

A recent article said that $20 billion of taypayers' money has been lost to this industry in five years. Any wonder there are vocal advocates for keeping it as it is and hopefully expanding it some more?

Dear onthebeach,

I prefer dealing with facts.
It's an occupational hazard.
Therefore I simply cite links that I feel
are relevant. You should do your research
before you post. Otherwise you end up looking
silly.

Now, regarding Bob Carr's statements here's a
link from which I obtained the information
I gave earlier:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/28/rudd-government-asylum-seeker-policy

And as for asylum seeker policies?
The following article sets things into perspective.
I hope this helps:

http://www.smh.com.au/comment/immigration-what-a-political-and-policy-mess-20130704-2pes8.html

Lexi,

But you don't deal in facts. You are about half truths and allegations. Here is the example given earlier:

<Lexi, "the Rudd government has decided that refugees are fair game"

Where is your evidence that Rudd and Labor (and the LNP for that matter) have lost compassion for refugees?

What party do you have in mind that has the compassion you assert the major parties are lacking and state why you believe your nominated party is any better?