Zonetrader again it is not illegal to seek asylum in Australia and the basis for doing so is not based on your wealth but on your situation eg are you being persecuted. To ask for asylum is not illegal , you get assesed and whether you get accept or not is based on your circumstances , even if you get reject you have broken no law in Australia by seeking asylum in the first place.
Most people who do buy a ticket on a smugglers boat would have spent ever last cent they and in most cases their extended families posses to try to help them seek a better life , these people may have more money to start with than a person stuck in a African Refugee camp but to call them rich is laughable and a complete fabrication of the truth
I don't see those rich refugees living it up in their mansions overlooking Sydney Harbour most people who come here via boat are living in our poorest suburbs , sought of destroys your far fetched stereo type of the rich refugee.
The people with real money who can buy a Sydney Harbour property just buy their way in the country via the front door and arrive first class at the airport.Yet they don't get called queue jumpers. Seems big money really talks and will keep all opposition quiet.
You are all hypocrits of the highest order , to have such venom against people trying to come here for a better safer life is mind boogling in a country of immigrates.
Then again maybe you just agree with old Henry Lawson attitudes of a era long gone.
"Wide Lies Australia
Wide lies Australia! The seas that surround her Flow for her unity – all states in one. Never has Custom nor Tyranny bound her – Never was conquest so peacefully won. Fair lies Australia! with all things within her Meet for a Nation, the greatest to be: Free to the White Man to woo and to win her: Those who'd be happy and those who'd be free.
Free to live fully and free to live cleanly, Free to give learning to daughter and son; Free to act nobly but not to act meanly, Free to forget what the old lands had done. Free to be Brothers! Our hymn and our sermon To keep for the White World the balance of Power, Welcoming all, be they British or German, All come to help us – we'll wait for the hour.
Out in the West where the flood-water gathers – Out in the drought on the sand desert lone – Went the brave English and brave foreign fathers Fearlessly facing the fearful unknown. Gemmed with their names lies the great past behind us. Dark lie the storm clouds before us today, Let us so live the future shall find us Facing the danger as dauntless as they.
