I think so much of the refugee story is hidden away from the public - consider the recent claim by Leigh Sales that a detention centre in Australia is harder to receive media access to than Guantanamo. This allows for any amount of interpretation of facts, when there is not much evidence available to counter them - and what is, isn&#39;t filtering through. Most people have no idea about the lives of people claiming asylum (no matter how they arrive on foreign shores), or the process that is undertaken by the government in determining their claims. People are not getting this information from the media they consume and so any claim can be made whether true or false. I would urge people to at least attempt to educate themselves about the reality before stating that people arriving are not refugees or are somehow less worthy of asylum than others. Why not reread what others here have posted and see if there&#39;s some ways of getting a better understanding of the situation. I for one would like to investigate the group that Lev has mentioned.<br>