Paul,
Your story has holes in it. As Indy said they would not get a ticket to fly to Aus without a visa and upon their arrival they would be held only until the next flight back to where they boarded, at the airline's expense.

Belly,
Yes the world is over populated but it is fixable. Two very different countries have shown that birthing by women can come down from 6 children per woman to just 2 with government sponsored family planning. These two countries are Iran and Thailand. Iran has since dropped its family planning as it now wants a higher population but, along with Thailand, it has shown that birth rates can be reduced.

This is what the UN should be concentrating on. It is obvious that Aus simply cannot take all the refugees in the world as we fail to keep up with the infastructure required for our immigration rate now.

Doubters should google family planning is each of the said countries.

Australia's refugee policy is out of step with
global standards and breaks international law.
The government needs to take several steps to bring
Australia's refugee policy in line with other
countries around the world and to comply with its
international obligations - a leading research
centre on international refugee law has found.

Director of the centre at the University of NSW
Professor Jane McAdam has stated that Australia was
currently breaking international law in its approach
to refugees.

A Report has been released, "a non-partisan,
fact-backed refugee policy agenda" which outlines
how Australia can develop a more sustainable and
humane approach to refugees going forward.

" Australia is violating many of our international
obligations and it is really out of step with what other
comparable countries are doing," she said.

The Report co-incides with Manus Governor Charlie
Benjamin calling on the Australia government to remove
the remaining asylum seekers from Manus Island, amid
unprecedented spike in suicide attempts and self-harm
following the federal election.

Peter Dutton appearing on Sunday's TV program -
"The Insiders," stated that he shall be looking at
removing everyone off Manus and Nauru - in the
hope of resettlement in the US, and New Zealand.

Dear Shadow Minister,

«Between traffic accidents and industrial accidents about 500 people die a year, which is a fraction of those that die in countries where the government doesn't spend the $bns that a responsible Aus government and industry does.»

100% of people die. Can you deny this?

So government is paying $bns to have us die in certain ways and not in others. Do we overall die in better ways? More comfortable ways? Nicer ways? Visit a nursing home, then tell me!

«About 3-4% of illegal immigrants on boats will die in transit. This is predictable and inevitable.»

That's all? I had the impression that it was even more!

So? These people decide to take a risk, but your kind of people wouldn't allow them - Are you their parent or whom do you think you are?

Some posters here at least admit it straight: they will do whatever it takes to not have these refugees here - they unashamedly want this whole continent for themselves: well at least they don't look for excuses and pretend to be "caring"!

«A government not taking action such as the turn arounds to stop deaths at sea is grossly negligent.»

What about a government that fails to take action and do whatever it takes to convert the infidels, even while believing that otherwise their fate in hell will be far worse than death at sea? There is no deeper pit for those who, believing they know better, invent and assign themselves "duties" as they please - how about a rapist claiming that God sent them to impregnate all women on earth?

Foxy,
What you and other refugee advocate seem to forget is that Australia is a sovereign country and can make laws to suit itself. It does not matter a fig what somebody in another country says or thinks, we firstly have to think of ourselves and so should our politicians.

We take 18500 legal refugees per year which is far too many anyway on a per capita basis and we have to insist on strong border protection to prevent the invaders.

Our founding fathers and colonials have worked too hard to make a tough enviroment into a reasonable place to live, for us to allow it to become another third world country by over population.

Every increase in population means a lowering of our living standards and we owe the world nothing. We do more than our share to help others less fortunate than ourselves.

You want to bring more people here to help them, well there are people here that need help and for my money they come first. After all they are our citizens.

According to Foxy we are all immigrants, so we should be celebrating Immigration week and those that have made Australia a great culture. There are man first nation citizens and percentage first nation citizens with immigrants. "Let us all rejoice." The problem is too many want to stop the rejoicing and want us sing to another culture tune.

According to Foxy?

Foxy is a qualified research librarian that
gathers her information from published records
be they right or wrong. Its up to the various
publishers to fact-check. If this does not
agree with your concepts then find your own sources
but don't blame Foxy.