Why is Australia's asylum seeker policy so lauded

[Bill Walker]

I've been through it to. You seem to be falling into the trap that Abbott and Murdoch have pushed that there is no middle ground between locking people in third world detention centres at an absurd cost and saying everyone in its a free for all. There is a huge difference between the two. My point is how much tax - billions and billions is wasted on this outlandish vote grab all of which could actually be spent funding Australian jobs, creation, technology and investment. It is a scandalous waste of our tax that is being used to win votes at the expense of our economy, health and education

Yeah fair do's mate, I can see your point, it does seem absurd.

I just dont see the solution to this

Billions are wasted permanently in Oz, eg the Queensland Gov costs 60 Billion a year, why do we need state Govs in this day and age ? I could see a need 150 years ago when there were no phones, internet etc etc but now, just centralise everything in Canberra

In fact why pay billions for the Gov to trek out to Canberra, hotel bills/flights etc etc just centralise in Sydney or Melbs

 

[EalingBlue2]

Its all well and good to say, yeah open the doors, so anyone who wants a better more prosperous life can just arrive here in Oz without papers/passport and we'll welcome you,

There is already an immigration process, I myself have been through it, it is there to check things like Im not a convicted rapist or paedophile or violent criminal as well as my suitability for employment...is there any jobs for what I do ? and unskilled ? well 145 people applied for a job as shop assistant at a Woolworths in Brisbane recently, jobs are very hard to come by, so do we raise taxes to pay for unemployed migrants for whom there are no jobs ?

Mass immigration without process would be a mistake imo

Yeah fair do's mate, I can see your point, it does seem absurd.

I just dont see the solution to this

Billions are wasted permanently in Oz, eg the Queensland Gov costs 60 Billion a year, why do we need state Govs in this day and age ? I could see a need 150 years ago when there were no phones, internet etc etc but now, just centralise everything in Canberra

In fact why pay billions for the Gov to trek out to Canberra, hotel bills/flights etc etc just centralise in Sydney or Melbs

I can't disagree with that at all, super City mayors for the main big metro areas and a department of the regions for the rest. The idea that the interests of Bourke and Sydney are aligned is crazy.

There is a lot of government that could be reduced in this country - government could easily be in Sydney equidistant from Brisbane and Melbourne, with the stock exchange etc but honestly can you imagine the outcry in Melbourne, they'd rather have an ISIS caliphate take over the country than have Sydney as capital. I am laughing just at the thought of the outrage - it's almost made my day :-) so I guess Melbourne would have to be capital a bit like The Hague to Sydney's Amsterdam

Whilst we're at it merge with NZ as well wouldn't be a bad idea