I would get at least ten customers each week into my shop, bitching about how much the refugees get in handouts, compared to our own residents.

I have heard suggestions that's its as much as $65,000 per year each.

Personally, as a tax payer, I would like to know, from the horses mouth, just what these people do receive, and for how long, whether they be invited guests or queue jumpers.

Who agrees with me.

They should be able to come and go as they please, but receive nothing - absolute 0 benefits of any kind (unless private citizens wish to support them with their own money).

The only thing in the way is this stupid refugee-convention!

It's worse than $65000 or $1250 week.
. Detaining a single asylum seeker on Manus or Nauru costs $400,000 per year. Detention in Australia costs $239,000 per year. Bill Shorten will cost $1 trillion soon. Warming the globe will be $38956
megabucks.

Refugees—that is, people who have been granted a Protection visa—do not receive higher benefits than other social security recipients.

In general, Australian Government payments are only available to people who reside in Australia and are either Australian citizens or holders of permanent visas. When an asylum seeker is granted refugee status they become permanent residents of Australia. They have the same entitlements as all other permanent residents.[22] There are no special refugee payments or special rates of payments for refugees.

Most refugees are of working age. This means that the main form of assistance provided to refugees is the Department of Human Services (DHS) Newstart Allowance (commonly known as unemployment benefits). To qualify for Newstart Allowance a refugee needs to meet the same requirements as any other resident. This includes participation in activities designed to increase one’s chances of finding work and accepting work should it become available.[23] There are no special or extra rates of Newstart Allowance for refugees.

As such, a single refugee receiving Newstart Allowance and sharing rented accommodation would currently receive $573.27 per fortnight (comprised of Newstart Allowance of $492.60 and Rent Assistance of $80.67).[24] This is precisely the same amount that would be received by any other permanent resident of Australia receiving Newstart Allowance. Similarly, any refugees receiving other Australian Government payments such as Disability Support Pension or Age Pension receive such payments at precisely the same rate as is paid to all other permanent residents.

http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/BN/2012-2013/AustGovAssistRefugees

Open your eyes!

No nickname, its Kevin Rudds baby, not Bill shortens and we should never ever allow the Australian people to forget that.

Here Rudd is, on his tax payer supported lifestyle, something in the order of TEN TIMES that of our pensioners, plus all the perks, yet he has and will continue to cost us a fortune, one that we may well never recover from, yet some still worship him. He was little more than an economic vandal.

The Kevin 07 experiment may well go down in history as our worst ever choice as a voting nation. If only politicians were accountable.

The economic vandals in Iraq have forced the US to pay-up big time:
The U.S. war in Iraq has cost $1.7 trillion with an additional $490 billion in benefits owed to war veterans, expenses that could grow to more than $6 trillion over the next four decades counting interest, a study released on Thursday said.
Sotherby's auctions hope to obtain a trillion dollar bank note , the new currency.