People also need to realize that Australia, not the United States, is the prime target of Islamic extremists in the Far East. Their citizens took the brunt of that attack in Bali a few years ago and Australia itself is located just below the island chains where terrorists operating out of Indonesia and the Philippines are based. They are constantly having to repel attempts at people smuggling from China and Moslem countries of Africa and Asia, very similar to the US problem preventing illegal immigration from the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central America. Although they possess sophisticated detection capabilities, their country has such a massive coastline that is impossible to patrol every inch of it so they have 10 times the potential for illegal entry. If Australia is becoming more like the US in the way they handle law and order, they have a very good reason for it - and it's not because they admire our style in civil services
