Jayb,

I was merely holding up two ends of the political refugee spectrum - Labor style.

Could any party turn itself more inside out on an issue.

I s'pose Ruddy will be an OLO hero from here on in.

Lol

ooirot: I s'pose Ruddy will be an OLO hero from here on in.

Both sides are full of She'ite. I don't trust either of 'em. Abbott won't be there a day after Rudd announced the Election date anyway. Turn(bull)will oust him to give the LNP a better chance.

Do you think that a lot/some of Asylum Seekers are Economic or do you think they are all bonifide?

What do you think Australia should do with them?
1. send them all home/away.
2. Send some of them home/away.
3. Admit everybody regardless.
4. Your solution here.

Ruddy’s my hero!

People smugglers, “Your business model is over”!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/19/kevin-rudd-asylum-boats-png

It's all over. Australia has been saved. Captain Kev to the rescue. We are going to send them all to New Guinea where the cannibals can eat them.
Will anyone tell them about the cannibals and the crock and the dysentery and the Japanese encephalitis and the malaria and the TB and the 'Raskols'
Will they be confines in barbed wire compound camps to sweat to death or will the be allowed to roam free to be killed off by the locals.
Perhaps the plan to send 150 Australian Police to NG is part of the plan. How much money Kev and who pays the piper?
Who know how the mighty Rudd mind works.

Cue, "Xenophobia, the Musical".

Hi Poirot,

Perhaps you're right - out of the 26 million refugees and displaced persons around the world, let's set our annual quota at 100,000, something like that, mainly arriving by air - and allow for another 30,000 people coming through 'irregular' means: a total of 130,000 per year, increasing at, say, 5 % p.a into the distant future.

That would mean around 1.4 million over the next ten years (and maybe 3 or 3.5 million in the next twenty years).

If we could find jobs for them all, and they would mostly come from the camps in Africa (and now around Syria), and they have applied in all the proper way, and if they have been vetted somehow to keep out Islamists and other fruit-cakes, I would have no major objection.

As a consequence, our great-grand-children would very likely be very beautiful, intelligent and physically magnificent, inheriting - as Darwin would suggest - the best of all their diverse ancestries. Pity we can't live for two hundred years, don't you think ?

And no, I'm not being sarcastic, I'm serious, Poirot.

Cheers :)

Joe