Prohibition of rum smuggling failed to work in 1808.Prohibition...

Prohibition of rum smuggling failed to work in 1808.
Prohibition of people smuggling is not working now.
More law and order cannot solve social problems.

Is there no solution? There is, from reading our history:
NSW Governor Lachlan Macquarie put rum smugglers
out of business by legalising imports and taxing them.

Macquarie turned enforcement costs into a huge
revenue steam that built Sydney Hospital (that still
stands today as a testament to wise government)
plus the revenue from taxing rum imports built
over 200 other badly-needed public works.

The Commonwealth Government can put people
smugglers out of business (and eliminate leaky
boats and drownings) by legalising airlines to
import asylum-seekers for a pre-paid fee of
the airfare plus half what smugglers charge.
Airlines remit the cash to the Government.

Rich migrants (for a fat fee) are already jumping
the queue so why not let the Government make
money from a tax on asylum seekers instead of
smugglers getting rich and costing us billions
from futile prohibition and detention efforts.

Worrying about gene pollution and being
swamped by people who are 'not like us'
is racism masked as 'border protection'.

Within 10 years of gold being found in
Australia our population tripled. Few
had 'identity papers' and Australia
got rich from economic refugees
who were 'not like us'. But they
changed Australia by marrying
us and endowed Australia with
the Hybrid Vigour that comes
from a multicultural nation.

Monoculturalism has been dead for decades.
Disinterring 'White Australia' (and calling it
'border protection') is economic lunacy.

Governor Lachlan Macquarie did away with
prohibition and New South Wales prospered.
America prospered from boat after boat of
'huddled masses'. As President Roosevelt
said: "All we have to fear is fear itself."

So don't read Murdoch's 'Australian' or
'Sydney Telegraph'. They prey on your
fear and prejudice like African hyenas
to help the Libs oust Labor on orders
from News Corporation in New York.

For fair and balanced reporting I read
Fairfax's 'Australian Financial Review'
and the 'Sydney Morning Herald'.

But if you want to pollute your mind
with Murdoch fear-mongering, go
ahead. It's better than polluting
your mind with Alan Jones
but sadly not by much.