Morrison has served the national interest on UN pact

Australia does not need more UN influence over its sovereignty.

Taking a stand against the dictates of the UN is a great sign that Scott Morrison’s government is putting Australia’s national interests ahead of politically correct preening (“Morrison passes up ‘flawed’ UN migration compact”,21/11).

This would never have happened under a Malcolm Turnbull — or a Bill Shorten — government, and echoes the response of the EU rebel states to the dangers from losing control of their borders.

A bit more of this resolve and voters might remember the threat that a Labor government represents to border security. Divisions at Labor’s national conference in 2016 revealed how phony is Labor’s pretence that it stands with the Coalition on resisting the people-smugglers and avoiding mass drownings at sea.

John Morrissey, Hawthorn, Vic

The PM is right in not signing the UN global migration pact. It is time the UN staff left their ivory tower and lived in the real world.

While it may propose guidelines on world migration, it is unrealistic to force or expect nations to be bound by them. Every country should have the sovereign right to decide for itself. There seems to be a push by the UN to become a superpower and to impose its ideologies on all nations.

Its aim to have a borderless world ignores the cultural identities, aspirations and economic viabilities of individual nations. And this may create more problems than the UN intends to solve.

B. Della-Putta, Thorngate, SA

Scott Morrison has been rightly decisive on declining to sign the UN migration compact. In the past, we have been too eager to enter into international agreements with the UN.

We must ensure absolute control over our sovereignty and protect our rights to make our own decisions according to the wishes of our citizens. What might be good for other countries may not be good for us.

John George, Terrigal, NSW

If immigration continues at the present rate, traditional Australian culture will be lost and social cohesion among the population may become impossible. It is most concerning that many migrants are more interested in living among themselves than they are in identifying as regular Australians. Obviously, these people could never be depended on to serve the country in any time of national peril.

A good dose of military training may be an effective way of bringing the numerous strands of multiculturalism together in order that they form a broader appreciation of what it really means to be an Australian.

Frank Reade, Macquarie, ACT

The adage of “populate or perish” applies today as much as after World War II. With a population equivalent of greater Shanghai, our 25 million souls rattle around as the only people with a continent to themselves. Just as the British viewed a handful of hunter-gathers as occupying a terra nullius, so a China of 1.4 billion views an under-used Australia. Geopolitically we need immigrants.

Joseph Vagunda, Taroona, Tas

Dale Ellis’s letter (19/11) was valid because until Tuesday we had heard nothing about the attitude of Scott Morrison and his government on the issue of a migrant pact that is being raised in Morocco.

It is very important that we don’t agree with the sentiment that migration is a human right. We have seen the disasters in Germany, France, Sweden and several other European countries, and I have witnessed the influx of refugees into Italy, a country that is struggling anyway without all these extra migrants being forced on it.

Many of these migrants do not understand the role of women in the Western world and have no respect for them. To adhere to this proposal would indeed be damaging.

Marianne Stevens, Halls Head, WA

Not even heaven could help the nation if Newspoll’s predicted 20-seat Labor-Greens gain in 2019 becomes a reality. The rise of One Nation in the polls would seem the best chance conservatives have of thwarting Labor’s 50 per cent renewable energy target, of avoiding John Symons’ predicted property “hand grenade” by abandoning negative gearing and thwarting Labor’s big spending and higher taxes, and the Greens preference swap in return for opening our borders and promoting their radical social and gender engineering.

Kevin Begaud, Dee Why, NSW