many people mistakenly believe that refugees are to blame for our ballooning population. They have been deliberately misled by the major political parties that refugees are somehow the cause of all our population woes, when any well-informed person such as you or I know that refugees have added little to our population growth. However the governments reasoning is that if they can sneakily deflect the whole population growth issue to refugees, they wouldn't have to deal with reducing (note I said reducing, not stopping ) the numbers of the "skilled" immigrants -- the main source of immigration ( mainly New Zealanders, British, Indians and Chinese ) -- which would cause the business community to wring their hands and gnash their teeth in despair because they are not getting cheap off the shelf workers that they do not have to take the time and effort to train. Meanwhile normal Australians' standard of living has dropped because as a result of high population growth housing and other basic services are increasingly unaffordable and infrastructure is inadequate. It is the Australian people who voted in the government -- we are their employers -- therefore they should be putting policies in place that favour normal Australians first and foremost, not business leaders or skilled immigrants. As Friedrich Nietzsche said "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity" The same could be said of our hopeless politicians. An increased refugee intake (coupled with more rational immigration controls) would draw on a much wider