Verge wrote on Oct 21^st, 2010 at 8:04am:


Well.....firstly an asylum seeker has not entered the country illegally by coming by boat despite what you might like to think.....you can argue all you like about the morality and people smugglers but the fact remains.....coming to Australia by boat is not illegal and asylum seekers have every right to seek refuge wherever they feel they are safe......this is why they are allowed to stay in Australia and are not prosecuted....this is not the fault of asylum seekers who are desperate to make a better life for themselves this is the fault of governments who have signed the international refugee protocol and who start wars....These countries are then obligated to take refugees because the country they came from is at war and they are genuine refugees.....you reap what you sew!!!

Secondly....

http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFSGE68L0EZ20100922

http://www.whale.to/b/scott_b2.html

Wednesday, 24 March 2010 19:40  
The United States Marines are expected to do the hard work when it comes to War.  They are given the toughest jobs and the most dangerous tasks to perform and the Marines will not complain and will carry out their assignments as ordered.

So when told to deploy in an uninhabited part of Afghanistan to secure a portion of desolate desert terrain for the sake of ensuring that oil pipelines are built and kept safe from rebel hands, the Marines take on the job.

The Marines might look at this deployment as just another mission that happens to involve oil. This is not the first time, nor is it likely to be the last time the US military gets in a fight over oil. The reason the United States went to war against Saddam Hussein a first time in 1990-91 was to get him out of Kuwait because Kuwait has oil, and because it placed Iraq far too close to Saudi Arabia.


Read more here

http://oilprice.com/Geo-Politics/Middle-East/Oil-for-Blood-in-Afghanistan.html

phantomlady wrote on Oct 21^st, 2010 at 10:24pm:



There is no oil in Afghanistan.  Lotsa poppies, but no oil. [/quote]

Really???

A preliminary survey found that Afghanistan may have 1.8 billion barrels of oil in the north of the country, an official said.


The survey by Afghan and international geologists found the possible oil field between Balkh and Jawzjan provinces, Mines Ministry spokesman Jawad Omar said.

He said the survey would be reviewed and a statement about the possible field is expected by the end of the year or early in 2011. He gave no further details.

Last June, Afghan officials said US geologists believe the country has nearly one trillion US dollars in mineral resources, although it could take decades and peace with the Taliban and other insurgents before it can be fully exploited.

Oil was first discovered in Afghanistan in 1959 in the country's part of the Amu Darya and Afghan-Tajik basins of the north.

A 2006 report by the US Department of Energy estimated that Afghanistan has about one billion barrels of recoverable oil, although the US Geological Survey the same year put the figure at nearly two billion barrels.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/oil-field-discovered-in-afghanistan-2053829.html

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/MAD201A.html

August 15, 2010
Afghanistan's Mining Ministry announced today that a new oil deposit with an estimated 1.8 billion barrels of crude has been discovered in the north of the country.

Ministry spokesman Jawad Omar told the French news agency AFP that the new oil deposit extends in a triangle between Balkh, Hairatan, and Shuburghan.

Geologists are not expected to complete further assessments on the ground until January, and then the deposit will be opened to tender, Omar said.

It is the sixth oil deposit discovery made in Afghanistan.
The largest were found in the Amu Darya river basin marking the border between Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan.

http://www.rferl.org/content/Afghanistan_Discovers_New_Oil_Deposit/2128315.html

Oops ..I should add that at least 10% of the 500 were a group of backroom Liberal Party members that were wandering around stirring the oldies into a frenzy of racial intolerance.

More preening garbage from Homer Simpson

I feel quite sure that public schools with a large number of refugee children will be allocated  extra ESL (english as a second language) teachers and that the Aussie children will broaden their education  by mixing with different cultures and ethnic groups.

I don't see that the Aussie children will be harmed in any way.

"The audiometrist, who works in a local hearing-care centre, said the refugee children's limited English would mean teachers had less time for Australian-born students"






Sounds like MY schooldays, in outer suburban Melbourne of the 1960's, when half the kids were those of newly arrived Greek and Italian immigrants

One of the kids introduced me to pizza for the first time at a 'lunch swap'

NOWADAYS I imagine the kids at my old school are swapping for pork dumplings, won-tons and tandooris

These people are disadvantaged as it is and all some people can do is complain about how they're going to fill up Australia's public schools and housing. No compassion.