Australia's Prime Minister would best be renamed "Madame Clap", since she is like a dose of syphilis. It's the last thing you want; once you've got it, you can't get rid of it; it can't be cured no matter how much medicine you take; it will eventually drive you insane, and you'll die a slow, painful, and disgusting death. This is the fate that is now overtaking Australia.

Why is this Australias problem, these people have transit through other countries but AU has got to take the blame.

It is definitely eye opening that "Democratic" Australia's actual highest office for affecting legislation is a completely unelected, autocratic one.

Although a question that could damn all houses alike- why have none of them attempted to change the law so that what the Government does is legal?

The most sensible thing for the government to do would be to give 12 months notice and opt out of the refugee convention. All the convention achieves is to give a selection advantage to refugees who risk their lives undertaking perilous journeys and fill the pockets of people smugglers. Of course, this wont happen, because in this and so many other areas of policy, the government is nobbled by the conflicting spectrum of philosophies which it must appease.

> Why is this Australias problem, these people have transit through other countries but AU has got to take the blame.

"Australia has been an automatic signatory of all UN treaties for many years. Few Australians have any idea of what has been agreed to by successive governments on their behalf. The results of those agreements, however, are increasingly manifest as rampant unemployment, loss of sovereignty, destruction of small business, disappearing personal freedoms, and a complete loss of any independent future for the country and its inhabitants."

I wrote this nearly a decade ago, and it's still on my website:

http://52midnight.com/files/a-Foreign_ownership_in_Australia.html

> It is definitely eye opening that "Democratic" Australia's actual highest office for affecting legislation is a completely unelected, autocratic one.

The simple fact is that the nineteenth-century social systems we've inherited are totally inadequate to the needs of the twenty-first. When Little Johnny Slicker started bleating about "the system works" during his last years in office, it immediately convinced me that fundamental, far-reaching reform would be the only solution. The problem is that such deep-rooted changes are now effectively illegal; you'll never convince the sheeple of the need for them, and without a democratic majority of half-wits, all other options are undemocratic by definition, and thereby invite reprisals from the globalists - i.e. a US invasion to "defend democracy". It's a nice pickle we've gotten ourselves into.

Mortal dilemma ?

Of course, on-shore processing of boat arrivals is more humane and equitable, and releasing people into the community, even with electronic ankle braces, etc, even more so.

But what effect would this have on the plans of smugglers ? Would it discourage them in any way ? Or their hapless but well-paying passengers ?

Abbott has offered a way out for the government to get around the inevitable booming of the hapless refugee trade. And where will the Greens, hitherto Labor's allies, stand on an Abbott-Gillard amendment to the Migration Act ?

End-game ?