Since no one else had a view I will drift in and say whoever the Moron/Morons were who opened the floodgates

I can understand people wanting to escape poverty, disease, oppression etc., etc and migration is, I believe, a fact of life that we all need to get used to. Having said that however, there are great lessons to be learned from the experiences of Great Britain, The Netherlands, France, Germany etc., etc. There certainly needs to be controls, limits, selection criteria and solid integration planning if we are to avoid the pitfalls that are now glaringly obvious from the experiences of the above countries. If that means resiling from our commitment to Human Rights conventions or other international agreements, then so be it.....Australias interests MUST come first.

The problem goes way beyond the simple risk of allowing radicals/terrorists into our country...... it comes down to a significant threat to our own quality of life and national identity. We dont want to pass on to our heirs a fractured and disharmonious society riddled with inequities and the very problems that these immigrants were escaping from.

We dont just need a policy to prevent "boat people" from entering Australia, we need a thorough and comprehensive policy covering all aspects of migration from the selection of who we will take, right through to their "integration plan".

On the other side of the coin, the whole of the international community needs to do more to improve conditions in these "third world" countries that the migrants are coming from and that may be a simple as imposing iron discipline on how aid monies are spent and accounted for.