Published in the Green left weekly?

'nuff said.

Simple,effective solution to this problem.Enter Australia illegally and the offender is on the first flight back to country of origin,once that is established.

No whining,no whinging,go home,make the best of it,if it's broken you helped to break it,you help to fix it.

We have more than enough homegrown deadbeats without importing more.

the results of Mr Rudd's compassionate/tough approach. Pink bats, massive extortion of funding for schools and immigration. What else can the Government demonstrate its incompetence in. This poor Tamils situation is a direct result of the Greens/Labour invitation. Unfortunately they will bleat on about how compassionate they are while more die answering the invitation to their slimy political rhetoric.

'How long must we wait?'

The answer to that seems to be -
as long as it takes to have their status
assessed. There are no quick solutions
to this problem. Refugees are waiting in
camps in countries all over the world.
Why would these people expect a "quick fix?"

It often takes years - while people are moved
from one camp to another. At least they are
being fed, they have access to medical help
if needed, surely conditions on Christmas
Island are better then conditions in camps
in Indonesia? Another question is - have
conditions changed for them in Sri-Lanka?
Can they be sent back? And now that the
Government has also decided to stop processing
applications for asylum from Sri Lanka and
Afghanistan, for a while at least,
I guess the wait will be even
longer. Perhaps an option could be to offer those
that want to return to do so - if they're not
prepared to wait their turn?

*Now, after ten months in hell*

Err hang on, taxpayers coughed up something like 300 million $ for
that place, it has everything that opens and shuts and is hardly
a hellhole. In fact its better then many a mining camp.

Life is relative. If my life had really been on the line, or I had
been living in a real refugee camp, Christmas Island would feel more
like the Hilton!

Some spokeswoman for the Tamils was on radio saying that these would
all make great migrants, for they are nice people. She misses the
point. This is not about if they are nice people or would be an
asset to Australia, it is about wether they are genuine asylum
seekers or not. If not, they are taking the place of those in real
need, who cannot afford the trip to Christmas Island.

*Perhaps an option could be to offer those
that want to return to do so - if they're not
prepared to wait their turn?*

Foxy, its a good idea but you are reinventing the wheel here,
for that option already exists. Anyone can leave at any time,
they simply don't have free access to come and live permanently
in Australia. If they want to live in Australia without claiming
to be asylum seekers, they will have to join the long queue of
others wanting to live in Australia too.

Dear Yabby,

Perhaps I should have re-phrased it, or put
it in better terms. All I meant to say was
that if they're not willing to wait and
be assessed according to proper procedure,
and they tell people that they want to leave,
then they should be "encouraged" to do so
with all the means at our government's
disposal. In other words Yabs - our government
should - call their bluff! Because that's all
it seems to be. They feel that the more noise
they make - the quicker they'll be processed.