Tony Abbott — Australian Politician born on November 04, 1957,

Anthony John "Tony" Abbott is an Australian politician who was the 28th Prime Minister of Australia from 18 September 2013 to 15 September 2015. Abbott was leader of the Liberal Party from 2009 to 2015, and has been a Member of Parliament for Warringah since 1994... (wikipedia)

I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste and, above all else, observe the first maxim of good government: namely, do no avoidable harm.
If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia.
Once people come to Australia, they join the team.
I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists.
It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at things through the 'noble innocents' prism or through the 'chronically dysfunctional' prism, and I suspect that is so often the case.