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Australia's moral compass: child refugees : Comments
By Paul McDonald, published 18/8/2011By sending child refugees to Malaysian refugee camps, is the Australia government breaching its responsibility to protect and care?
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It is an absolute disgrace for them to involve us as a nation in the trading of people. Full Stop.
It is shifting our problem onto another less scruppled regime. It will do nothing for discouraging people from placing their lives and their childrens lives in the hands of smugglers with their dangerously unseaworthy boats and inexperienced crews.
We should simply return to the Pacific Solution even if we ramp up the number of refugees allowed to enter Australia.
As for the unaccompanied children. There is one simple way to discourage the practise of sending them.
Deny the option of family reunions but supply an additional option of a one way ticket home.