What a shame that here in Australia many are so opposed to asylum seekers that they are happy with this governments pledge to stop the boats and shove them back into the sea.  Nothing is told to us about new asylum seekers.  It's pretty much a disgrace really and I would be loathe to vote for a government with such a policy.

I was thinking abot that while reading through this topic, what these people have to go back to when being turned away. It must take alot for someone to chuck it all and set out for the unknown. As bad as things are here for me and I have thought about setting out for some place new, I'm not quite there yet. I mean a person has to wonder what they are gonna do for food and shelter, and in the long term to make a decent living.

This could be a small part of a much bigger problem, a world problem of population. Some say this planet can't support the number of people living today, and there has never been in known history, as many people as there are today.

Theres two ways to see this,  two sides to it, and both are valid. Still, turning boats away seems like putting a tiny bandaid on a shotgun wound.