Uncomfortable truths eh?
Has anyone ever wondered if the lack of sympathy shown by both men and women toward the current wave of colonists from Sri Lanka and Afghanistan stems from the fact that these colonists are almost all Men?
Australians still see men as disposable and of no intrinsic value to society, a man in distress is seen as weak and is treated with contempt by both Australian men and women.
All this hand wringing over women and children getting onto boats is being used as a distraction to cover up the real picture of the passengers on the colonial transports. I don't know what percentage of the colonists are Men, can anyone here give us some facts and figures?
I bet if the true demographic breakdown of the colonial transportees were to be made public any support they might have now would evaporate immediately.
I put forward the suggestion that the only thing keeping this issue alive is the misrepresentation of the gender of the transportees by the MSM and refugee advocates.

Lexi,

There we have it, you just admitted that the authors of NM write "campaigning journalism" which makes a complete lie of your claim that this is a source of information free from a political agenda

SM,

Talking about campaigning journalism...

Have you seen the front-page headlines recently of the
Daily Telegraph - "This Mob has got to do?" or words to that effect.
In big block letters. Pot, kettle...

cont'd ...

SM,

The Daily Telegraph front page headline (I've just looked it up)
actually stated, "KICK THIS MOB OUT."
Mr Murdoch isn't campaigning or biased - No.
That's MSM in its element!
At least New Matilda does maintain a balance with articles
like:

"Why Andrew Bolt is not an imbecile." ;-)

Here's an interesting and related story.

A Swiss town sought to implement apartheid-like restrictions on the movements of asylum-seekers within its precincts. It has since pulled back on that, saying it will now "ask" asylum seekers to keep out of certain areas instead of forcing them to.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/dec/19/andrewosborn

We live in interesting times.

Poirot has trawled the Net to find a 2002 article from the Guardian with an emotive word from a group supporting illegal immigrants.

What Poirot isn't commenting on is why the Swiss people are afraid of the illegal immigrants moving freely amongst them. After all, the Swiss are very welcoming to tourists.

Given well-documented government reports from of European countries concerning the rise in crimes and load on welfare from immigrants it would not be surprising if the Swiss had also noted an increase in crime. Poirot knows that very well from evidence put to her/him previously.

Here is another recent report which reminds of the ethnic bikie drug gangs in Australia and their violent tuft wars and shootings,

"Inter-gang turf wars, in particular between various immigrant gangs and biker groups, have been going on in Denmark since 2008"
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/denmark-biker-gangs-raided-murder-police-160830465.html#q0svQkH

What Poirot also doesn't say is that advocates for illegals blackmailed the Swiss into change because the courts would have been overloaded with appeals paid for by the Swiss taxpayer and the authorities did not want to risk a precedent being set. To be blunt they would have played the discrimination card. Nice to use those provisions to the detriment of the safety and to over-turn the democratic decisions of law-abiding citizens.