You are revealing a lot about your views by the sources you are posting. Al is right.
So let me get this straight, you'd rather waste hundreds of millions, if not billions, in setting up a mostly ineffective trading scheme, than funnel that money into renewable energies research and research into making very efficient electric cars?
That only talks about the destruction of documents, nothing about all the other claims you've made.
Part of the deal with the carbon tax was that some of the funds raised from it would go into financing renewable energy projects. A fairly large portion also went to people at the lower end of the economic scale to compensate them for the increased costs. People who could afford to do something about got hit with the bill because they have the ability to invest to reduce their electricity usage.
The per capita pollution of those countries you mention is way below ours. Australia needs to pull its' finger out. We were on the right track.
Like what? They choose to come to Australia because of our benefits (welfare, accomodation etc)? Can you name me one country in between the Middle East and Australia that provides refugees with all the benefits Australia does? because I can't
Yes. The people that are profiting from fossil fuels need incentives to look to the future. There is an awful a lot of money to be made from people living off coal and oil and unfortunately the LNP is in their corner.
Did you not pay attention to the part where I said most, if not all of those countries don't accept refugees? Those countries in between aren't options mate, they won't let them in.
There is only one "fact" in there, the rest is bluster and suppositions.
A man was walking along a deserted beach at sunset. As he walked he could see a young boy in the distance, as he drew nearer he noticed that the boy kept bending down, picking something up and throwing it into the water.
It happens all the time. Look at all the refugees from Africa that make the trip to Italy, for example. Italy only provides support for several weeks so a lot of the refugees then head to the Scandinavian countries which provide better welfare benefits, support and citizenship. Is it really so hard to believe that at least some 'asylum seekers' would be drawn to Australia for the same reasons? There is definitely a pull factor, the success of Rudd's PNG solution is evidence of this.
And they're the guys who are lucky enough to have had the money to afford the trip to Australia. What about those who don't have the $5-10K to pay a people smuggler? Is that not creating a class system among the millions of refugees languishing in camps around the world waiting for resettlement?
Our immigration policies do exactly the same thing? That is a whole other can of worms.
Now I might be a bit naive here, but doesn't this highlight an issue with our welfare policies more so than our immigration policies? Why dangle the carrot and then imprison everyone who comes to take a bite?
I don't get how it automatically makes you a racist if you don't believe Australia shouldn't be letting in Asylum Seekers that don't have a passport. That is just where political correctness has gone wrong in Australia and western society, it's a joke.
I'd actually be interested to know where the majority of Asylum seekers come from.
I find pathetic justifications like this fascinating. Instead of hiding behind xenophobic commentators can you try to describe exactly are you afraid of? These people are fleeing warzones, religious persecution and criminally corrupt and oppressive governments. The fact that they are willing to take genuine risks with their lives for a chance at freedom says everything.