Agree Paul in time the shear weight of migration/refugees will be questioned world wide
Until and if changes are made we should look at all races and faiths who need a safe home

Paul,

The confiscation of farms based on the owner's colour is clearly racist, and so are you if you support it. For example, some of the farms in Zimbabwe were purchased by foreigners migrating to Zim after independence and had no ancestors that were in any way linked to the appropriation of land.

Similarly, in SA, most of the land appropriations occurred over a century ago, with the last occurring about 50 years ago. The vast number of farmers today have purchased the farms themselves including a significant number of overseas investors.

For a comparison, imagine the outcry if Chinese investors in Aus farms had their farms confiscated without compensation because they were non white?

The number of White Zim farmers who fled that have been granted refugee status = zero.

Belly,

My point is that if there is an allocation of 20 000 refugee places p.a. in Aus is why can't a certain portion of these be allocated to people fleeing danger that are also not a drain on the community. i.e. South African farmers vs Sudanese gangs.

Shadow, if you purchase stolen goods, be it a TV, a car, or even a farm, well you know what happens. Check the sellers bona-fides before purchase, buyer beware! Often these farms were the result of illegally confiscated land by colonial masters in the nineteenth century.

Refugee is a legitimate reason to take people, so is skilled migration. A persons level of skill/wealth should not be an influencing factor in determining their refugee status. A refugee who flees with nothing more than the shirt on their back, should be given lesser priority than a person with money in the bank. Nothing to do with colour what so ever.

//why can't a certain portion of these be allocated to people fleeing danger that are also not a drain on the community. i.e. South African farmers//

Are you joking? They're descended from the Dutch, Shadow. A notoriously work-shy race of people, your Dutchmen.

Or at least, I assume that to be the case based on the skin colour of the average dole bludger I see in my local Centrelink office. Not all of whom are necessarily descended from the Dutch, obviously, but all white people are basically the same as each other in the same way that all black people and all brown people are basically the same as each other.

Toni, bring in Boar farmers will upset some of the forums more senior old fogies from down at the Rusty Years Retirement Village, you know, the 'Usual Suspects'. They still wear their 1901 uniforms everyday as they sit proudly, but patiently waiting for the return of Lord Kitchener and to hear the call to once more defend the Empire in the name of our gracious Queen..... Victoria!