boat people - an Australian headache for nearly four decades

The phenomenon of boat loads of asylum seekers on tightly packed, unseaworthy vessels from Indonesia and Malaysia (in particular) arriving on Australia's coast began after the end of the Vietnam war. At the time the majority of Australians were tolerant of them, but as the numbers since the late 1980s have never shown any sign of diminishing and their origin has expanded to include countries that are predominately Muslim, the vast majority of Australians now just want them sent back to where they come from. In the 2013 general election, Tony Abbot made stopping them a prime election issue, including by the use of drones. According to what the government claims, only one such boat reached the Australian mainland last year.

And what do these Muslims do when they are granted immigrant status?  Well, it seems a significant number spend their time complaining about the absence of the repression in Australia that led them to seek 'asylum' from where they came... On Saturday about 800 of them rallied in Lakemba, Sydney, against free speech in Australia.