Peter Dutton is right. Those immigration lawyers representing asylum seekers are unAustralian. They don’t stand with us. They don’t stand for us. They undermine the very idea of what it means to be Australian.

Unlike Governor Phillip, they did not dispatch marine corps patrols into the wilds of Botany Bay, there to kill as many of the local people as might suffice to "spread an exemplary terror among the natives".

Australians, all let us rejoice our Immigration Minister, Peter Dutton. Credit:Alex Ellinghausen

Unlike John Macarthur, late of the $2 note and celebrated father of the Australian wool industry, they did not launch a military coup against the lawful government of the colony to protect their private commercial interests.

Unlike Lachlan Macquarie, sent from London to restore the authority of the Crown in the wake of that rebellion, they did not hang the bodies of the Aborigines from trees on the edge of the settled areas, as an example to their displaced kin that a new people have taken dominion here.