Seen on the news last night, cost $ 170,000,000.00 to house 800 men???? no girls????
Top accommodation with rooms with ensuite, basketball and volley ball courts (indoor and outdoor) fast internet connections air con, phone!!!!
Wish they would spend 1/2 of that to give old peeps or street peeps decent accommodation in Perth............ But no... hang on... no brownie points from the United Nations if you look after your own poor peeps.
Should we have our priorities right??
Cut the foreign aid! Help our own with the saved money and then if there is some left spread it around!
Yes I know that is a redneck racist comment but I will not apologize for it!
Realistically we need to have a world wide standard for refugee housing, meals and luxurys.
I wouldnt expect the same treatment if I was a refugee in their country.
Yes, it would be considered to help out people in our own country first and then others, but I would like to look at the existing cost of welfare, medicare and housing for the homeless and compare it to what we spend in foreign aid to see how much of it we are spending abroad.
I don't know the figures but would imagine that what we spend helping people from othe countries would be far less than what we spend on our own.
It does seem like a high figure for only 800 people though. If we could lessen the cost per person, would we help more refugees with these extra funds or would we all want a new flat screen tv?
I've got an easy solution to the problem of 'boat people'. Hand ownership of Christmas Island to some other government. If they can make it to our mainland without being eaten, we can consider their various applications.
I mean, as it is, it's hardly a major mission from Indonesia's shores
Lets cut all
Does any one knows how much The Emirats, Abudabe etc (rich muslim countries) spend on foreign aid???? what is their quota of refugees!
Would be interresting to know!
While waiting to finalise their Australian residental status, two Afghanistani men start chatting. As they part, they agree to meet in a years time and see who has adapted better to the Australian way of life.
True to their word, they meet after the year is up. The first says to the second "We have integrated so well...yesterday, I ate a meat pie and drank a VB while watching my son play Aussie rules"
The second man replies "F**k off, towelhead"
Ive been driving past that camp for over a year , and im stunned at just how long its taking to build.
it may have cost 170mill but somebody somewhere is creaming off the top because all it is is a bunch of dongas
, just like any mining or construction camp surrounde by absurd amounts of razor wire.
normally camps that size and quality would go u[p in a matter of weeks or months , but these contractors are dragging the job out to well over a year.
thats where most of your 170mill is going 
