The problem is we treat refugees a lot better than most other countries and spend a lot more than other countries on refugees we take in. For example I think Jordan is one of the countries with the highest intake of refugees but Jordan spends no money on refugees - it has allocated parts of the dessert to make refugee camps and international humanitarian organisations do the rest. Australia provides welfare, housing and other forms of assistance to help refugees to settle into Australia and to integrate into the community. That costs a lot of of money, but I don't think Australians would want to allocate part of our dessert to create refugee camps and let humanitarian organisations do the rest. Australia was built on migrants and has taken more migrants in per capita than most other western nations.

John Pilger lecturing School children in Cabramatta. Your adcvise to Australia to take more refugees is neded here like an hole in head.... How many of the refugees many of them terorists wants to stay in Australia,because of our stupid government and even nore stupid Australians who are to lazy to protest. John Pilger and your friends are going to take some of of them to your home ????

It would be good to say yes to refugees in welcomeing them to our home but unless we can provide them with a safe haven or facilities especially for them to help start their lives again, perhaps allowing them to come to our country in a way of rescue rather than criminal. We all want a safe place and safe home to live in. Most of these people come with nothing and live with nothing. Giving them some helping start eg. educational and so on, will make a difference to them and to us in the near future. But of course we do need to balance the measureable measures of how much we can assist all at once. So we do need to put some restrictions on just how many we will accept. A strict structure of regulations must be in place, and as long as improvements by the other party is progressing. such as (Helping themselves to get ahead). Perhaps this may have some control to some point.

Congratulations to John Pilger for preaching compassion. The scaremongering about 'terrorists' or 'criminals' seems to discount the fact that many times the number of unauthorised immigrants coming by boat arrive through our airports. Remember 9/11? The perpetrators of that terror didn't need to bob around on the open ocean for weeks at a time - they're well funded and well organised. The whole xenophobic hysteria shows we haven't progressed very far as a nation - and the south Asian 'boat people' who had to struggle to get here and gain acceptance should know this better than anyone.

John Pilger is the greatest Australian of all time. John Pilger should be Governor General Or Federal Opposition Leader or NSW PREMIER.