Was there not a statement the other day, that the refugee intake from Africa is to be cut and their place taken by Iraqis?

If we want a cohesive society and avoid the problems that Europe currently has, an idealistic indiscrimate migration policy will not acheive that.

Just for the record Belly, there was an estimated 2.5 million Iraqi refugees during Saddams reign. And CJ, when you decribe Saddams genocidal regime as the 'government', your shooting yourself in the foot.
I know its aguable but didn't we and the rest of the world, as signaturies to UN decrees on genocide have a moral obligation to free the Kurds, Marsh Arabs and Shia of Iraq from his psychopathic rule?

palimpsest,

That argument (that we had a moral obligation) would probably have flown a little better than the reason given for invading Iraq (WMD's). It also would have helped if the US hadn't abandoned the Shi'ites and Kurds after the first gulf war.

By the time the second Iraq war rolled around, people were extremely sceptical about any US protestations about "moral obligations". Others were worried that any Iraq excursion was going to detract from the actual war with terrorists in Afghanistan(and we've since seen the concern justified over and over again).

Banjo said: "If we want a cohesive society and avoid the problems that Europe currently has, an idealistic indiscrimate migration policy will not acheive that."

The Federal Government has announced that most of the Iraqis refugees expected to arrive over the next twelve months will be Christians fleeing persecution. Arab (Lebanese) Christians have a long history of prospering in Australia, so I see no reason why these Iraqi Christians will be any different.

To its credit, the Federal Government is avoiding Sweden's mistake.

http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2278

Dresdener,
I was aware that the Iraqi refugees are christian, and I am aware that the Lebanese christians that have came here have integrated very well.

My comment about a cohesive society was a general comment not related to the Iraqi refugees. That is why I seperated the two comments.

Cohesion is usually derived from homogeneity. In the case of high immigration countries such as Australia, a policy of assimilation is absolutely necessary in order to maintain a shared national identity. But under the multicultural Balkanization policy currently in effect, assimilation is actively discouraged.

Such policies are effectively giving the populations of countries vastly different from our own the green light to colonise Australia. After all, the wave of mass immigration is unending, and rather than being encouraged to assimilate into mainstream Australian culture ("Anglo-Celtic cultural imperialism!", yell the multiculturalists), new arrivals are told that Australia is little more than a co-habitating space for the world's tribes.

Wither Australia...