Dear SPQR,

Here's a link that you might enjoy:

http://theconversation.com/factcheck-are-asylum-seekers-really-economic-migrants-15601

The illegals should all be returned, at their own expense, (they had plenty of money to get here) to a UN Refugee Camp to wait like all the others waiting their turn. These people are creating a huge unnecessary financial burden for the Australian Economy.

Poirot,

I don't judge the ABC in terms surface ripples like how many times they cover polls or minor scandals like Slipper or (your favorite)Thompson.

I look more at the deeper currents --for example:

1) Without taking into account the usual lefties like Philip Adams or Robin Williams mark down on your calendar how many months pass without ABC RN running a program either spruiking Multiculturalism (they currently have Mongrel Nation/Tim Soutphommasane),OR bemoaning our White Australia Past/our innate racism, OR lecturing us about how inhumane our border controls are (usually via some second-third academic rolling out some long debunked argument).

2) Listen in whenever there is any asylum seeking incident. While often you will have no ALP or LNP comment/spokesperson, you will almost always get a 3-5 minute uninterrupted spiel from some refugee advocate.

There is a clear one-eyed agenda.

(is there any wonder regular listeners --like you -- have such a warped view of the world?)

Dear Lexi, poirot. Here is a nice moderate Muslim speaking on the Temple Mt in Jerusalem. You might enjoy.

http://www.clarionproject.org/news/imam-temple-mount-let-america-be-destroyed

Get ready for the world Islamic Caliphate. Coming soon to your country via Asylum Seekers.

Jayb,

What makes you think I could be bothered listening to your carefully selected whatever-it-is?

I can barely be bothered here lately, except to make the odd quick comment, let alone gallivanting around following your dodgy links.

SPQR,

You would be surprised at what I don't listen to/watch these days. Not much ABC, except for their online news site, and certainly not any of Uncle Rupert's partisan rags or networks.

Dear Jayb,

May the waters
where you live
be clear and calm
so you may see your way
up into the sunlight
of your mind -

(Nan Witcomb).