any culture that doesn't protect it's own interest will die-
Canem malum,
In your words "Kudos" !

..take them in willy nilly is acceptable..
Typo,
...should be isn't acceptable...

Those that talk about equality always have their dirty hands in our pockets- "looters and moochers"- what about getting what you make- getting what you deserve based on your actions.

Foxy said "My parents like so many refugees at the time had to sign 2 year contracts with the government and had to go wherever they were sent. Building roads, cutting sugar cane, working in hospitals, in factories, and so on. These were difficult times for everybody. Their contribution to this country are well noted in our history books."

Answer-
In my view the addition of Foxy's family line wasn't a contribution to the best interest of British-Australia.

There are many contemporary young British-Australian's that would love a job but can't get one.

In my view this situation needs to be also viewed from the side of the loss to the British Australian's who didn't get a say in the decision in our supposedly democratic representative democracy. We need to review this historic wrong. Thomas Hobbes talked of the "mandate of the people" and lived and contributed to the legacy of John Locke and democracy.

The refugee situation in the world has become unsustainable- 2 million refugees many from Africa enter Greece every year- this has become a form of invasion- the land area of Africa is huge- it appears they want more. The New Years Eve sexual assaults in Germany as well as the UK Rape gangs show how the immigrant populations are emboldened in the west. It's common for invading armies to rape the local populations in order to seed their position.

Individuals point was interesting- it seems that the West spent money to fight in Afghanistan now we pay again when the Afghani's come to Australia- we are bleeding loses on both sides of the ledger- how long can we continue to let Locke Liberal (Socialist Labor and Libertarian) politicians do this before we die.

Thanks Individual for your support.

Australia has been shaped by newcomers since its days as
a British penal colony and has presented itself in recent
years as a model of how immigration, properly managed can
strengthen a country.

Australia has developed into a nation welcoming
skilled foreigners that helped fuel decades of economic
growth and transformed the nation once closed to
non-white immigrants into a multicultural society.

Of course there still can be heard the usual arguments
about the crowding in our nation's largest cities,
the conjested commutes, the high cost of housing - all
under the umbrella of the deprivation of the
Australian - "quality of life." This complaint
is always also masked to a return of the "good old
days" and a new wave of non-European immigrant sentiment
especially from Muslim countries, along with Africa and
Asia.

We then get the old chestnut of - "they're taking our jobs."
Which is simply bollocks. How come new arrivals can find work
while locals can't get their bums off their seats?

Today - according to the latest population stats - a higher
percentage of people or their parents have been born overseas.
Those are the facts. Australia is a nation of immigrants.
Whether some choose not to like it - is their problem.
Had it not been for immigration - Australia today would still
be the cultural backwater it once was.

So folks make your vote count at the next election.

It is important!

AC

That is true and will remain true, but things could be better without preferential voting, which keeps two parties - not much different from each other - stuffing things up.

At the very least, preferential voting should be optional.

Foxy,

You really need to get over the fact that your parents were immigrants. It's neither an advantage nor a handicap, just awfully like identity politics.

CM,

The biggest beneficiaries of immigration are the immigrants themselves. Immigration reduces GDP per person, suppresses wages, makes housing scarce and very expensive, and pressures infrastructure, which never catches up; and less than 27% of immigrants possess any of the skills that governments are always chuntering about.

Immigration is a government Ponzi Scheme racket to get more votes and more taxes.

individual,

Your 4,000 Afghans will be here soon enough if Labor gets in and is able to govern on its own. Senate votes are particularly important this year.

Without the ridiculously high immigration and multiculturalism forced on us by both Liberal and Labor, Australia would not be the divided place that it is today.

Neither party has so far polled with the 40% primary vote needed to avoid a hung parliament. Perhaps more Australians are waking up to what drips our time-serving politicians are. We might just get a few people with more than just a pulse this time.