So as everyone is clear and to help clear the hysterical...

So as everyone is clear and to help clear the hysterical rhetoric of some here regarding the so called 'boat people', these asylum seekers make up 3 percent of Australia's total intake of immigrants.

YES - that is 3 out of every 100 immigrants arriving in Australia are boat people.

Now try and argue that the so called boat people issue has not been politicized.

Good luck.

Yes - Australia was taken from the aborigines by force by the British Crown under the now totally discredited and convenient idea or notion of terra nulls. But after more than 200 years, don't you think we should just get over it - history I mean and move on as One Australia?