Paul1405,

The Greens would be in favour of course of Labor leader Shorten's plan to swamp Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane with ramped up migration from the middle East.

<October 25: Shorten delivered a speech advocating a dramatic increase in Australia's intake of refugees from the Middle-East:

"Labor believes Australia can play a greater role in the international effort to provide refuge to the persecuted. Nearly two million Iraqis have fled their homes in the face of the ISIL advance – and millions more have been displaced by the conflict in Syria...

"Given the scope and scale of the current crisis gripping the region, Labor believes that, as a starting point, those seeking refuge from the current crisis in Iraq and Syria should be taken in addition to the existing allocation..."

This is significant policy shift. Given that most asylum seekers who came to Australia during the Labor years came from the Middle-East, and the Sunni-Shia schism has displaced millions of people, this represents an open-ended commitment to accept "those seeking refuge", which points to a massive increase in the intake from the Middle East.>

http://www.smh.com.au/comment/bill-shortens-bubble-starting-to-deflate-20150308-13y9x5.html

What a way to increase the work of Centrelink and the drain on the federal Budget. The NSW police already have a dedicated Middle Eastern crime unit as a result of the shootings, violence and other serious crime. The Greens and Labor would want to geld that unit to hide the fact. Reminiscent of the political correctness that concealed the Rotherham child sex trafficking.

Still, Shorten wants to increase the Labor vote and that is a sure way of doing that - more on welfare and more discontented voting Labor.

JOM they are que jumpers because they have passed through save havens to get here. They are coming for the benefits, and I guess who can blame them.

It's time Australia got out of the UN. It's a complete waste of money. It's nothing but a talkfest for making "Resolutions" no one takes any notice of anyway. & If the Parties don't take any notice of the Resolution they'll get angry & make another one for the Parties to ignore. Whoo Hoo!

Schrimple Sherloc

<<The Greens would be in favour of course of Labor leader Shorten's plan to swamp Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane with ramped up migration from the middle East.>>

Not that I'm aware of Beach. But then again I'm not as informed about all things Greens as a know all blow hard like your good self is. So you continually tell us how knowledgeable you are on all subjects. It amazes me what you can see from your dingy party HQ in that basement in Tempe! What ever you and Jim tell us, must be true. I'll just have to bow to your superior wisdom. You must look really something, goose stepping around in that snappy black uniform with those shiny black boots. Mate, you are all class in my book.

Dear Paul,

I've just recently come across the following
website which may be of interest to you:

http://thediplomat.com/2014/02/australias-troubling-asylum-seeker-policy/

I feel that it is relevant to your discussion.

Foxy,

Unfortunately the article 'Australia’s Troubling Asylum Seeker Policy' published by The Diplomat is all too true. I am ashamed of our treatment of children, and I am ashamed of our off shore processing facilities on Nauru and Manus Island.
Look at the attitude of our fellow 'forumites' from the rabid right and their postings here. They have no compassion, no feeling for people who through fate have been placed in a terrible situation. Just like Abbott the best they can come up with is lets shoot the messenger.

Abbott has been aided and abetted in this by equally disgusting policies of the Labor Party.