The boats used to cross the giant virtual moat to reach Australia are rundown fishing boats. They are sold cheap to people smugglers because fish stocks are so devastated and many fishing livelihood's have been lost, and there is not enough if any money coming in to repair those boats.

Many refugees are leaving their own country where food supply and land for gardening is also exhausted

There is need for productive new industry and busines and employment but even in Australia debate on suggestion of productive new water infrastructure is gagged by ABC news and current affairs and other media.

I think if refugees had fifty to one hundred dollars (US) a day take home pay in their own country they would not want to leave.

@Robert LePage, Monday, 11 September 2017 4:43:37 AM

You have been listening to serial virtue-signalling bores like Phillip Adams again, courtesy of the ABC, haven't you? He has been on continuous loop, leftist self-loathing, (but himself a self-described gentleman farmer, with a farm manager) since waaaaay back in the Sixties. 'Helloo, Gladdies'. Motto, 'Nothing concerning BS is alien to me'.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/phillip-adams-on-how-to-be-a-moral-bullsher/news-story/7c288f9fd4e118d21728c63e47bce20c

Come on Robert LePage, don't be holding back. What is your solution? You must have THE solution, huh? From all of those years listening to the drone.

Hi Leoj,

I'm tempted to listen to Philip Adams, for his imminent announcement of how many Rohingya refugees he is prepared to billet on his farm.

Nah, life's too short.

Joe

My excuse is that ABC radio casts its net wide, which is a good thing. It is only after the drone has been going for some time and a strip of bitumen makes it audible above the BF Goodrich that you might realise that the background whine is not from canvas and wind. But then you realise that yes, the low moaning sound and hissing IS gas and it is coming from the radio, Adams!

He fell on his feet decades ago didn't he, for a comfortable, cosseted life. Clever.

No Steely I'd not waste money on them, I send them you.

With your ego you could fix it all for them, then they could use the rest of you to fertilise their farms. After all, you are full of it.

Did one of my comments disappear?

There's a few strange things that happen around on these forums!