I watched the SBS show last night - it's television so it's highly edited.   If you are interested in what I think I've set out a few thoughts below.

1. Australia is a great country, I think it's the greatest country on earth.   My forebears fought and some died to keep it great.   My first expectation from our government is that it controls our borders.   We should choose who comes here, there ought be no route for self-selection.   If we can't control that element of our sovereignty we are lost.

 2. A wise man told me this.   Don't weaken a strength to strengthen a weakness.   There are plenty of weak, war-torn countries on earth.   Plenty of places with shocking, archaic cultural practices.   Work on those weaknesses.   Don't weaken Australia's strength in cultural homogeneity and social cohesion in order to make a stab at fixing the weaknesses in other countries.   That is be very careful about importing problems here beyond our capacity properly to assimilate people.

3. Adopt the Hippocratic principle.   First do no harm.   Make absolutely certain that our security insterests are protected.   If you want some insight into what I am saying have a yarn with Abdul Nacer Benbrika in maximum security in one of HM gaols in Victoria.   Or listen to His Honour Justice Bernard Bongiorno's sentencing remarks as he sent Benbrika down.

4. If you are of the mindset described by these words "Australia should do more" please explain what "more" is.   It is very easy unintentionally to do a lot "more" harm than good.   Purchasing food and goods locally with overseas currency easily inflates local prices harming markets and people.   NGOs tend to attract the cream of local people, denuding local populations of their best and brightest and denying them the leaders that could extract them from the misery of war.   Finally should we decide to side with one warlord or another and help them obliterate their clan or tribal enemies?   Who is right and who is wrong?   The United States tried that in Afghanistan and created the monster Osama bin Laden.

5. I think we need to stand up to crazy Islamism.   When the Korans were accidentally burned in Afghanistan that was wrong and more care should have been taken.   But the response?   Kill all Westerners?   Where is the global leadership (Barry Obama in particular) that says to the Islamists "hang on a sec, you blokes have to learn to pull your horns in, you are wrong in your reaction".   I don't know why we kowtow so deeply.   Don't kill people please.   Go easy on the guns and bombs.   And have an enlightenment so that practices like female genital mutilation are stopped.

6. Put the effort in to assimilating people who are afforded one of the greatest gifts on earth - Australian residency and citizenship.   To live here properly you should speak English and know the law and customs, otherwise your life will be so much harder and less pleasant.   We need to put that effort in, to make sure we take the job seriously - that is a duty both to ourselves and to people we invite to come here.

I would be pleased to hear from you - let me know what you think.   You can see the episode of Go Back to Where You Came From at the link.