Butch, a typical response. Oh! How shocking, these poor people are deserving of our help. Then the excuse why you can't help, or should not help. I'll tell you where the money is coming from OUT OF YOUR POCKET! No pussy footing, you can pontificate and procrastinate until the cows come home on this, but at the end of the day the refugee crises facing the world will still be there and growing to such an extent that no one will be immune from its effects, not you, not me, no one. Your comfy lifestyle is under threat, no two ways about it. We the world can work to resolve the problems, and they are huge problems facing us, no one can deny that, or we can doom ourselves to failure by putting self interest first. It may not effect you and I greatly in what is remaining of our life, but if we live long enough it certainly will, or at least have a major impact on our children and grandchildren. 40 million refugees in nothing compared to say 1 or 2 billion, and that could well be the future, I sincerely hope it is not. if we act now we may just provide a better tomorrow for ourselves and our children, we can only hope.

Exactly what solutions do the Greens have, Paul1405? Education and enlightened sex planning including abortion are impossible dreams in the undeveloped countries where keeping the women pregnant is the goal (and not only of 'men') and is decreed by archaic creeds like Islam.

If it were possible you could place that 40million asylum seekers and economic migrants today, but then there would be 40million+ as the ignorant populations got to work to top up and have more to send to those countries foolish enough to wear a blindfold while throwing open their doors.

So out with it by all means, what exactly do your Greens Left recommend? That is outside of their and the Greens usual vicious sledging of any young Aussies who want to have children and their insistence that Australia solve the overpopulation problems of the world.

So much for the Greens idealism and moralising about sustainability, they always refuse to nominate a ceiling for Australia's population; how that target is to be reached; how water, food and energy are to be secured and sustainable; and how it is all going to be paid for.

Suze, you are living in the past my dear, a time when we HAD MONEY TO SPARE and unless you have been living in an isolated cave somewhere, you would realize that there are so many of OUR OWN PEOPLE doing it tough out there, many of whom are worthy refugees having paid tax their whole working lives and raised decent children along the way much of which has been achieved WITH TAXPAYERS ASSISTANCE.

Foxy and Paul, I thought that would hit a nerve, especially since there is a one on eight chance you don't contribute one red cent towards situations like these.

As for a possible solution to this funding, what about we all lobby the government members to donate 20% of their overly generous super funds because after all, they are all high income earners and their supers are bordering on ridiculous, especially when former PM's get rewarded for stuff ups.

Christian refugee will call homosexuality sin
Muslim refugee will call for homosexual to be beheaded
Left to deceitful and ignorance to see or acknowledge the difference

Dear Rehctub,

Paul and his wife and family attended the rally
for Syrian refugees in Sydney.
He showed his humanity by doing so. He gave of his time
to try to sway our government into increasing the intake
of refugees during this global tragedy. I also give of my
time by working as a volunteer with refugees (I don't
get paid for it). I also give of my time - willingly to
try to help people. I have been doing this for some time.
The same as I volunteer at an aged care facility as well -
and have done so for many years.

Shame on you for questioning what other people do
or do not do as a strawman argument in this issue.
Instead of criticising others - what contribution and
example can you show us.
What do you do for your fellow human beings - apart from
criticising?
Self-interest does not matter a great deal when people need
help and are in dire straights.

As for how this country is going to fund this help?
We've always managed to provide help to others in the past
and I'm sure we will this time around.

Perhaps the large
multi-national corporations could be asked to contribute
by paying their share of taxes, or the government could look
at the costs involved in keeping people on Christmas Island
and Nauru or what it costs in providing our ex-PMs in luxury
for life, or how many overseas trips are really necessary for
our politicians when the same result could be achieved by
a simple telephone call, as in the case of Mr Dutton's
recent trip - and the list goes on.

Your concern for this country is admirable. There are many
things we need to improve here. We need to ameliorate some
terrible injustices and remove barriers to equality and
opportunity. But that does not mean we cannot simultaneously
show compassion and enlightened self-interest by reaching
out to a lot more of the world's needy during these
terrible times.

What I don't do Foxy is willingly commit other people's money.

Ill am saying to you is that uless you have a way of personally providing financial support, what gives you the right to demand others contribute.

By all means volunteer, but don't demand others money be committed, especially when we are borrowing just to keep the wheels turning