144 / I am sick and tired of the boat-people hysteria

Australia has an intake of 150,000 immigrants, per year. How many of them are 'boat people'? A few hundred, in fact on average, less than a thousand per year since 1978.

Yet, the 'problem' of boat people is a huge issue in Australian politics and I'm sick and tired of it. SMH today. This is one of the reasons why I vote Green, they abstain from using the boat people issue as a political football. By the way, the above figures translate to little more than one 'boat' person every two days since the end of the Vietnam War.