There is a false assumption underpinning support for Howard's homeless child-caging policy.
The false assumption is that if all the refugees who could afford to pay 'Dodgy World Travel' an arm and a leg to get to Australia were admited - we'd be flooded with boatloads of refugees by Friday.
One tiny piece of evidence that such an assumption could be hilariously false:
Long ago Australia abolished internal state borders and when the worst drought in 1000 years struck, the median strip on Northbourne Avenue was NOT filled with drought refugees from NSW who used it as a public loo!
Why not?
Because like foreign refugees Aussies in difficulties LOVE their home turf and will resist having to move (from where they love) with might and main until death stares them in the face!
So the self-centred idea that Australia is the best place on Earth is confined to us!
The self-centred idea that we'll be swamped is equally ludicrous.
In my private life I've discovered that provided I'm doing the right thing (not the evil, selfish or fearful thing) paths appear I didn't know existed and mountians become molehills.
As an old friend of mine says:
Fear knocked at the door. Faith opened the door. Nobody was there.
Purely by chance, or maybe not purely by chance, the tank-maker just phoned and our new rainwater tank will be delivered today!
When full it will hold 6,000 litres which takes our total capacity to 30,000 litres of rainwater.
PLUS this story was in the Canberra Times a week after our rooftop solar panels were installed to pump electricity back into the grid:
Bottom Line:
If I do the right thing to gain the reward, the reward won't appear.
But if I do the right thing because it's the right thing to do, the reward will appear!
