Cons' Hippie,
Well withdrawal from the convention will cost nothing, it's a peaceful means of resolving the situation and removing another overly politicised programme and no asylum seekers will be harmed in the process.

O'Sung,we're not a nation of mugs and it's only the bourgeois voters who see us that way, the immigrants, if indeed they hold such views wise up once they land here.
Watch this video, I like it a lot,this is what real opposition looks like and they're going straight to the source of the problem:
Multiculturalism comes to Saltsjöbaden
http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=375&v=sKW4BGMCB3o

Don't get me wrong JoM, I'm not opposed to your suggestion. I just don't think there is a politician in Australia with the balls to actually do it. And it would take the cooperation of the whole Parliament... I can't see the Greens or Labor telling the UN to shove it.

European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker warned that
Europe must do more than just react. It must
finally come up with a comprehensive plan that ensures
safety for those who deserve international protection.
"We must work on legal immigration if we close the doors,
migrants will break in through the windows,"

http://www.smh.com.au/comment/tighter-borders-will-not-stop-refugees-deaths-20150421-1mpjm6.html

I thought I'd give this thread a wide berth - realising it would be swimming in odium.

Certainly it is.

Notwithstanding the comments from those posters who still retain their common humanity, you'd travel a long way to encounter quite so many vehemently insular and fearful little men, almost completely devoid of grace and charity.

One pic sums it up nicely.

http://40.media.tumblr.com/73ce9aca930154458fab75c629f6ff8f/tumblr_mlz0p642ou1rkwhero1_1280.jpg

Fox,

What about the economic migrants themselves and the countries they come from? Solutions must come from within.

So what do you say that they, the opportunists who would not take responsibility to improve life for their women and children but pay large sums to criminal gangs to take them where their they and their buddies are kept safe and comfy by others, SHOULD be doing back home instead of ducking off?

They are the young, able, clever men, all opportunists who should be putting the hard yards in back home to rid their countries of the toxic creeds, traditions, values and political systems that harms women and children and prevent progress.

Why should the western democracies be sacrificing their own volunteers and giving aid to advance their societies when they will not take responsibility and worse, take their totalitarian creeds to other countries to harms women and children again? See here, where the politically correct media refuse to even identify the origin of the serious offenders involved, using the generic 'Asian' to duck-shove and conceal the inevitable 'unforeseen'(sic) consequences of 'Progressive' open door policies that wrongly put 'diversity' before managing risks,

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/vulnerable-schoolgirl-raped-least-60-5717785

<Vulnerable schoolgirl 'raped by at least 60 men after being preyed upon by Asian grooming gang'
18 MAY 2015

Eleven men are on trial at the Old Bailey accused of being part of sex gang based in Aylesbury, Bucks, who "brainwashed" the victims with alcohol, drugs and gifts

A schoolgirl was raped by at least 60 men by members of a horrific paedophile grooming gang - a court has heard.

A jury at the Old Bailey was told the girl were subjected to "horrific sexual assault on a massive scale" by a child sex gang in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.

Eleven Asian men appeared before the court for the first day of trial today and face charges of rape, sexual assault, conspiracy to commit sexual assault, conspiracy to commit rape, conspiracy to facilitate child prostitution and drugging the girls in order to rape them.>

Poirot,

This is what the vehemently insular and fearful little men, almost completely devoid of grace and charity in Labor and the greens were partially responsible for:

http://rt.com/files/news/1f/d1/60/00/australia-refugee-2.jpg