What a bunch of hypocrites. Every measure to raise revenue has been opposed by Labour/Greens and the foolhardy Senate. Now they want to spend billions on a rescue mission. They will continue to want more money spent on hospitals, education and roads and cry like babies if asked to contribute.

Hi Foxy,

Missed Q&A 'T' and I were in the city at the rally in support of our Syrian brothers and sisters, a big crowd in Sydney and I believe a massive turnout in other cities across Australia. The US is disappointing, as part of the problem, like us, they also need to be part of the solution.

Runner, the 'Good Samaritan' I know some christian folk and I don't believe for a moment your are a christian, you don't have a christian bone in your body. Read your bible and tell me how we should treat others, before you spit your hate and venom around the place

'Runner, the 'Good Samaritan' I know some christian folk and I don't believe for a moment your are a christian,'

With the judgement you show with most things and people it shows I am on the right tract.

No increase in overall numbers, said Abbott. The limit stays at 13,750 per annum. That should be scrapped, too. The time has come to put up the shutters before the West is swamped by Islam, run by Islam, ruined by Islam. European countries had already thrown in the towel by agreeing to the EU debacle; now they are committing suicide by not repelling country-shoppers who don't want to stop where they land; oh no, they demand to be sent to their countries of choice - the richer ones like Germany and Sweden or, how about Canada where they can get a new set of teeth for nothing. What fools Westerners have become!

Dear Paul,

Good on you for attending the rally in Sydney.
We would have gone - however at present I've got
a husband and grand-child with the flu. I'll
probably get it next.

It is sad that some people do not see our moral
and legal obligations to help those poor desperate
human beings. But Thank God there's enough people who do
have compassion and a sense of decency. People like
yourself and your wife and family.

Paul1405, "The US is disappointing, as part of the problem, like us, they also need to be part of the solution"

Any chance of you and the Greens ever criticising Saudi Arabia and the wealthy Arab states along the Persian Gulf for doing SFA, squat? Y'know, before you go smearing the US and Australia, who are putting the lives of their own young men and women on the line, something that is not being done by the hordes of young men fleeing Syria and leaving their women and children at risk?

<How many Syrian refugees have the Arab world’s six wealthiest nations resettled? Close to zero

Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post | September 7, 2015 11:06 AM ET

..A fair amount of attention has fallen on the failure of many Western governments to adequately address the burden on Syria’s neighboring countries, which are struggling to host the brunt of the roughly 4 million Syrians forced out of the country by its civil war.

Some European countries have been criticized for offering sanctuary only to a small number of refugees, or for discriminating between Muslims and Christians. There’s also been a good deal of continental hand-wringing over the general dysfunction of Europe’s systems for migration and asylum.

Less ire, though, has been directed at another set of stakeholders who almost certainly should be doing more: Saudi Arabia and the wealthy Arab states along the Persian Gulf.

As Amnesty International recently pointed out, the “six Gulf countries — Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman and Bahrain — have offered zero resettlement places to Syrian refugees.”

..Moreover, these countries aren’t totally innocent bystanders. To varying degrees, elements within Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the U.A.E. and Kuwait have invested in the Syrian conflict, playing a conspicuous role in funding and arming a constellation of rebel and Islamist factions fighting the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

None of these countries are signatories of the United Nations’ 1951 Refugee Convention, which defines what a refugee is and lays out their rights, as well as the obligations of states to safeguard them...>

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/how-many-syrian-refugees-have-the-arab-worlds-six-wealthiest-nations-resettled-close-to-zero