The Australian boat people are getting to be a problem. The first few million just got off the boats from Britain, pushed the Aborigines off the good land, and declared themselves the real Australians. This latest lot of boat people, though, don't even stay in Australia. They're being settled in Papua New Guinea.
It's not exactly their own idea, to be fair. The descendants of the earlier boat people, now numbering some 20-odd million, have decided that Australia is full up, so any more boat people have to be sent elsewhere. But where? Well, how about somewhere poor and violent, to deter them from trying to get into Australia in the first place? Besides, if it's a really poor country, then it can be bribed to accept them. Right, then. PNG it is.
The Australians have convinced themselves that they are drowning in refugees, but they aren't. Just go to the OECD's 2011 online statistics, and check out the top four lines for "Inflows of Asylum Seekers."
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