Wake Up Australia

[cliff]

well said David! Even though I too am a recent import from New Zealand (13yrs) I became an Australian Citizen along with my wife in 1994 and concider Australia home now. I have no problem with folk who do it the legal way but like you think many of the asylum seekers are not all that genuine. I did the painting below based on the Cat Stevens song "Longer Boats" but my take on it is an Asylum Seeker boat heading our way. Figures and flag are done in white so that no one particular ethnic group is picked out.

[Private_collector]

here, here!

It presents as if any form of political backbone is dead! Resting peacefully alongside common sense. I have the same frustrations as many, with watching this ongoing 'train wreck' of illegal immigration becoming 'asylum', knowing it's gonna happen & tough decisions will NOT be made for fear of political correctness breaches or upsetting some sections of our society.

Society, what a joke! Australia is fast becoming just another group of people living in proximity, definately NOT a society.

Who was it that said: Politicians should be changed as frequently as nappies.........and for exactly the same reason?

[cliff]

Originally Posted by Private_collector

here, here!

It presents as if any form of political backbone is dead! Resting peacefully alongside common sense. I have the same frustrations as many, with watching this ongoing 'train wreck' of illegal immigration becoming 'asylum', knowing it's gonna happen & tough decisions will NOT be made for fear of political correctness breaches or upsetting some sections of our society.

Society, what a joke! Australia is fast becoming just another group of people living in proximity, definately NOT a society.

Who was it that said: Politicians should be changed as frequently as nappies.........and for exactly the same reason?

I have a feeling that our pollies are bowing to the rules of the United Nations on many things and this may be some of the problem

Or is the UN most of the problem?

[Dianaa]

Illegals are illegals are illegals whether they flew here or floated here. Most of the ones coming by boat, don't come from a Visa free country and they wouldn't have received a Visa for any other reason.

While the detention centres in WA and NT are full of boat people, many of the ones in Villawood are the illegal overstayers and boat people who failed to gain asylum.

I don't know why we cant do exactly the same as the Yanks do and bus them back immediately, although then they wouldn't get off the plane, like they didn't get off the Oceanic Viking or what ever was the Customs ship that took them to Indonesia.

As for Australian Citizenship for new immigrants, it should be the one strike and your out rule. Go to prison for a crime and you lose you're adult acquired citizenship and when parole or release comes around, it's off in a big plane to from whence you came, no questions, no appeal even if you've got family here.

I think that all the treaties that were signed at the end of WWII with devastation in Europe are the cause of a lot of todays problems.