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"In 2012-13, NOM increased from the previous year reaching an annual estimate of 244,400 persons"

The gross arrivals were 508,662 and departures were 264,291.

So your figure of 300,000 immigrants was somewhat inflated.

It has been close to 300,000 (while Rudd was Prime Minister) and jumps around. Again you are studiously avoiding the point - many people want to come here. Whether the number of 244,000 is a large number. And your numbers were understated.

Actually if you care to check the Senator's comments I think you will discover that they were referring to people who come over via boat as an unauthorised arrival. It does take a certain desperation to even contemplate such as journey.

Here is the quote I was referring to Quoting President Vaira Vike-Freiberga of Latvia "No one leaves their home willingly or gladly. When people leave en masse the place of their birth, the place where they live it means there is something very deeply wrong with the circumstances in that country and we should never take lightly these flights of refugees fleeing across borders. They are a sign, they are a symptom, they are proof that something is very wrong somewhere on the international scene. When the moment comes to leave your home, it is a painful moment." Draw your own conclusions.

There's plenty of policy proposals out there if one does a little bit of honest research.

Not that hours of searching were able to uncover. If what you are saying were true, it would be very simple to provide a link, or to fill in the answers the questions. I had no trouble finding proposals for other issues such as global warming. Tim