woof woof wrote on Jul 8
th, 2014 at 9:57am:
how many asylum seekers should we accept?
Give me a yearly figure, the absolute maximum you think??
No answer means no credibility.
According to this:
http://unhcr.org.au/unhcr/images/Global%20Trends%202013.pdf
51.2 million forcibly displaced orcibly displaced worldwide
16.7 million refugees
33.3 million internally
displaced persons
1.2 million asylum-seekers
More than half (53%) of all refugees worldwide came from just three countries:
Afghanistan (2.56 million), the Syrian Arab
Republic (2.47 million), and Somalia (1.12 million)
The Worlds population is 7 billion.
Australia's population is 23 million or 0.33%.
This means for every 1 person in Australia, there is another 307 elsewhere.
So If Australia was to take 0.33% of refugees, my number would be 165,000 or so.
If we gave each of these the newstart allowance it would cost Australia 2.1 billion.
This is what it costs every year with our current "solution" anyway.
Of course I will be attacked by those who think we will be over run.
How many refugees do you think we should take every year?
It'd cost a hell of a lot more than $2bn. Where would you house them? Where would they live? It'd cost a fortune to build that much public housing, not to mention how long it'd take. Great idea, NOT!