Letter

In response to Climate-first foreign policy essential for Australia and regional security – top security leaders

'Turn back the boats' – tell them they're joking

The recent protest marches in Australian capital cities shows the ignorance of the protesters in basing their protests on the colour of people’s skin and their religion.

They should have instead protested about the climate, because rising sea levels alone in our vicinity will affect tens of thousands (17,000 in Indonesia).

Many thousands of Pacific Islanders will lose their island homes and many million Indonesians will look South due to inundation of low-lying coastal areas.

At present, the UK is trying to stop the refugee trickle across the Channel which will be nothing compared to the flood of refugees storming South. We can’t rely on the Indonesians under these circumstance to aid us in turning back the boats.

With a population of 286+ million, many of whom are heading our way, forget about the European Australia policy. At the very least, we should be forgetting about submarines and start building cruise liners.

— Bob Pearce from Adelaide SĄ