Alex Hutton <highspeeddub@gmail.com> wrote:
People who advocate that 'Australia' should help refugees are also playing politics. They are making themselves look humanitarian when in actual fact all they are doing is declaring how other people's money should be spent. If they really wanted to help refugees they should do something practical rather than complain that other people aren't doing enough.
In order to solve the problem you need to change government policies, and the only way to do this in a democratic society is through advocacy. It might interest you to know that some of the people doing the advocating also volunteer time and effort to work with refugees, so they are giving immediate practical help as well as trying to address issues of policy.