australia accepted 200000 boat people, page-37

Ken you make a very good point .Not to mention public housing transport etc etc that is all falling down under the weight of our high population growth.I also think there is a large amount of Australian capital going out of the economy by way of support for people overseas that would help with this problem.Im not inhumane and can understand why people do it.But can we afford this loss of capital.I am not sure if it is measured in some way but there would be alot of money going out of the country by this way.I think they call it sustence when making a foriegn transaction through your bank.It maybe small in comparision to large companies but this is the money from peoples pay that would normaly circulate within the economy regardless of outside factors.