A lot are Economic refugees.
Quote from Kate O'Sullivan, a communications officer from Save the Children's emergency response unit.
"Everybody I speak to, most of them want to move on [to other European countries], they're very aware that Greece has an economic crisis," she said.

"They're not looking to impose themselves, they're just seeking a better life."

yep having those who believe in being faithful to ones wife and family, to having a decent work ethic is abhorrent to the regressives. They would rather people undermining everything that made this nation propserous. What fools!

I personally would not take any more refugees as I believe 13750 is more than reasonable for us to take per year.

However I see the pressure mounting to take more and I concede it is likely that the intake will be much higher, which I hope will only be a one off measure.

Therefore the is an opportunity now to help those in the greatest need, the non muslims, who are persecuted by both side in this conflict.

These people are in camps in Iraq and Syria so from there we can make our selection and ensure that we take only genuine refugees. We also get the advantage that those we bring in will have far fewer cultural conflicts with our society.

Abbott says that there will no increase in overall intake, Banjo. When he said that he would stop the boats, he stopped the boats. All we can do is hope that he is telling the truth this time, too. There is no reason for any Western country to take in these hordes of country shoppers. They only get what they want because Europe has caved in: it is too weak and tired to resist. That's what happens when countries surrender their sovereignty to centralized pen pushers in Brussels. Fortunately, we have sea border, and, for all its faults, the goverment we have. Only if the Coalition is no more than the better or two bad parties, I shudder to think what the flood of wealthy "refugees" in designer jeans and pure silk headscarves, risking their kid's lives for greed, would be like if Green/Labor was at the wheel.

How do atheists undermine prosperity, oh dear runner?

This should be good.

Why Australia is obliged to rush across the world to rescue?

What about this,

<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.” This claim was echoed by Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, on Twitter:

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..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