suse,
Yes I'm a racist and racism is the only rational approach to take on this issue and if I'm offending religious people such as yourself then my point is proven. Racism is a worldview which comes about when people are well informed about issues of race, anti Racism is born out of ignorance, superstition and primitive fears about a watchful and vengeful god whose eyes (the eyes of the world) are always upon us.
Skin colour, melanin and the genes which regulate it might be linked to intelligence or it might not, there's no evidence one way or another at this point. Physical appearance however is a good indicator of intelligence, stunted growth, deformities caused by vitamin deficiencies etc, and since all of the men on the boats in question are brown skinned we need to look at the colour of their skin, their physical state and decide whether they need to be tested for intelligence and other mental problems before being admitted to our society.
So we might look at these man and say, they are below average height for their race, their limbs and joints show signs of deformity, their skin is marked by childhhod disease, their eyesight is poor..lets make them sit an IQ test in their native tongue, if they fail they are deported, if they pass with a score of 100 their refugee claims may be assessed.
So Suse can you explain how Australia might benefit from admitting thousands of men with sub 80 IQ levels? How will people whose median intelligence is below the level commonly accepted as handicapped contribute to "progress" in your view? Furthermore how will authorities know if these thousands of men are dumb or smart if they don't test them and set a benchmark?

'Abbott is an idiot for saying he won't condemn other close by countries for turning back the boats, because he believes they are following our lead and doing the right thing.'

Yea fits your dirty little narrative Susie. The sisterhhood are full of compassion but the man who has spent many weeks in voluntary work is an ídiot and has no compassion. You need one of the highly paid sisterhood who sit on their bums in highly Government paid jobs have compassion don't you Susie. Just ask Triggs or Gillard.

Suseonline,

When pressed you say you do not favour 'Open Door' immigration. Yet you accept economic migrants as 'refugees'. How else could there be so many buff young men, male youths and children on the boats?

What has prevented those tireless well-to-do spruikers and apologists (and ferocious moral critics of the Australian people) such as Christine Milne, Bob Brown and Philip Adams from ever taking some of those buff young men into their own home to take care of them?

Philip Adams (et al),
http://tinyurl.com/moral-bullsher

Once again, who pays

No JOM, I am not religious at all.
One doesn't need to be religious to show compassion, just ask Runner.

Bazz, I think I have made my position crystal clear.
The day we ignore the problems of the rest of the world is the day we cease to be human.

And Labor were going to send women and children to Malaysia. What cruel monsters.

the reality is that the progressives have a long history of labelling anyone who does not agree with spending unlimited Government money on the world's ills as uncompassionate. I have no doubt that conservatives give more from their personal accounts to the underprivilged while progressives use the poor as a political tool often to disguise their motives. They bang on about how muchy they care for the INdigeneous and yet I know no other minister let alone PM who has used their annual leave to serve the people. Wherever the UN or progressives are serving you usually find a tax payer money trail. No doubt their is an occasional exception.