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Most come via Indonesia, who do NOT have a welfare system. Hence they keep going... until they get to a country that does.
You can't blame them for trying. It is human nature to want the best one can get.
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Why don't they stop off and stay in ,Bharain?
Southern Philippines?,Malaysia,Indonesia etc etc with their populist Muslim welcome?
Been to Footscray lately,or any other zero crime,impecably clean,no drug issues,community pride,overabundance of police etc suburb lately-also ENGLISH is a common language with beautiful hardworking locals?
No,funny enough either can I.
Southern Philippines?,Malaysia,Indonesia etc etc with their populist Muslim welcome?
Been to Footscray lately,or any other zero crime,impecably clean,no drug issues,community pride,overabundance of police etc suburb lately-also ENGLISH is a common language with beautiful hardworking locals?
No,funny enough either can I.
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Why don't they stop off and stay in ,Bharain?
Southern Philippines?,Malaysia,Indonesia etc etc with their populist Muslim welcome?
Been to Footscray lately,or any other zero crime,impecably clean,no drug issues,community pride,overabundance of police etc suburb lately-also ENGLISH is a common language with beautiful hardworking locals?
No,funny enough either can I.
Southern Philippines?,Malaysia,Indonesia etc etc with their populist Muslim welcome?
Been to Footscray lately,or any other zero crime,impecably clean,no drug issues,community pride,overabundance of police etc suburb lately-also ENGLISH is a common language with beautiful hardworking locals?
No,funny enough either can I.
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Duurrrr,me dum ozzee![ROFL](https://britishexpats.com/forum/images/smilies/rofl.gif)
geeogrfie on da world?
Da muslim nations dat dem peeples went past to get two orstraya?
Only 1 or 2 and y want they accept their Islamic brothers?
maybe more,but i too shtupid.
Wish i was as edumacted as yeerseelf.
Maybe,i been to some places udder than orstraya and bali?
u smarta den me,yuu explain the trip from central asia and asia that bypasses nations that are Islamic States?
i is a rednek.
i neva expeerenced terruism or thurld woorl natuns like you have.
u is a championion.
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geeogrfie on da world?
Da muslim nations dat dem peeples went past to get two orstraya?
Only 1 or 2 and y want they accept their Islamic brothers?
maybe more,but i too shtupid.
Wish i was as edumacted as yeerseelf.
Maybe,i been to some places udder than orstraya and bali?
u smarta den me,yuu explain the trip from central asia and asia that bypasses nations that are Islamic States?
i is a rednek.
i neva expeerenced terruism or thurld woorl natuns like you have.
u is a championion.
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Duurrrr,me dum ozzee![ROFL](https://britishexpats.com/forum/images/smilies/rofl.gif)
geeogrfie on da world?
Da muslim nations dat dem peeples went past to get two orstraya?
Only 1 or 2 and y want they accept their Islamic brothers?
maybe more,but i too shtupid.
Wish i was as edumacted as yeerseelf.
Maybe,i been to some places udder than orstraya and bali?
u smarta den me,yuu explain the trip from central asia and asia that bypasses nations that are Islamic States?
i is a rednek.
i neva expeerenced terruism or thurld woorl natuns like you have.
u is a championion.
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geeogrfie on da world?
Da muslim nations dat dem peeples went past to get two orstraya?
Only 1 or 2 and y want they accept their Islamic brothers?
maybe more,but i too shtupid.
Wish i was as edumacted as yeerseelf.
Maybe,i been to some places udder than orstraya and bali?
u smarta den me,yuu explain the trip from central asia and asia that bypasses nations that are Islamic States?
i is a rednek.
i neva expeerenced terruism or thurld woorl natuns like you have.
u is a championion.
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A new flotilla of boat people bound for OZ,
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/n...-1225852467709
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/n...-1225852467709
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If we are talking about illegal immigrants (the proper terminology is unlawful non-citizen) the issue is not the boat people. Current Australian Government estimates are that there are approximately 46,000 unlawful non-citizens in Australia, of which 26,200 have remained in the country unlawfully for more than 5 years. The largest groups of unlawful non-citizens in Australia come from the United Kingdom and the USA.
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Tony Burke MP Federal Member for Watson
http://www.tonyburke.com.au/file.php...HWK/index.html
This has now become 46,000 'unlawful non-citizens' in Australia. But this parliamentary speech was made in 2006. Four years ago.
Whether these all claim regular Centrelink benefits is another matter.
http://www.tonyburke.com.au/file.php...HWK/index.html
We believe there are 46,000 visa overstayers.’ In the Senate I think that comment was put as, ‘The government’s current estimate is that there are around 46,000 visa overstayers in Australia.’
We have a genuine public policy concern here. When people ask me how big the problem is I say that I do not know and the government does not know. The government does not even know—I am back to where I started in this debate—how many people are here as visa overstayers. It reckons it is 46,000, and it reckons 26,000 of them have now been in Australia unlawfully for more than five years. There may be various reasons why it has not found them and deported them—I imagine there are 46,000 reasons why it has not done that—but we have a situation where the status quo is unacceptable.
Whether these all claim regular Centrelink benefits is another matter.