it is heartening to see that in our society you can actually still say what you think and believe. Critizise the government? unheard of! But it feels like a breath of fresh air in a stifled room. Sorry I missed the Interview. Thank you, Bruce Haigh.

alfred

Australia should not be sending the desperate asylum seekers to Malaysia or any other countries in the region. We have the capacity to process these people and meet our international obligations. Our nation's image, reputation and self-esteem will improve if we do what is humane and in the best interest of Australia and its place in the world. PM Gillard and Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd, need to be reminded that in 1999, the Republic of Macedonia welcomed more than 300,000 desperate people fleeing the war in Kosovo. With a tiny budget, the Macedonian Government provided them with food, shelter and dignity. Australia's leaders need to stop playing absurd political games and focus on how to get the best outcomes for this great nation. Breaking international laws is not the way forward.

This solution has just been condemned in both houses of parliament:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/labor-defeated-as-parliament-condemns-malaysia-solution/story-fn59niix-1226076260078

It is far worse even than the Pacific solution.

"Australia's leaders need to stop playing absurd political games and focus on how to get the best outcomes for this great nation."
The best outcome for this nation is to keep the nutjobs out- and to do this we need to screen each arrival's character and immediately deport anyone that falls short of our standards.

Strangely, I'm still wondering where this "international condemnation" is actually supposed to be coming from;
Can't be from America, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Italy, Germany, Austria, anywhere in Scandinavia, Japan or our immediate regional neighbours- as they want the same national rights of immigration control for themselves and as far as I'm aware, aren't kicking up a stink that we're doing it too.

It is indeed a sad state of affairs that the people of Australia, in their naivety, seem contented enough to let Gillard proceed with her ill-informed plan to dump boat people in Malaysia based on some strange interpretation of the UN Covenant on Human Rights.

It is illegal by any reading of the law.

To date, it is clear that Malaysia has not signed nor ratified the UN Law and there is apparently no intention to do so. So what our arrogant Prime Minister is doing by selecting a non-signatory is clearly giving the UN and its laws the big finger and she is doing it on behalf of the people of this country. What disregard she displays for the reputation of Australia after the hard work put in years ago. Where are the Senators, supposedly keeping an eye on matters that affect the States? Sadly, one has to remember by their actions that they are not truly representing the States, but their political parties. House of Review, a States House. A joke.

When signing the UN Covenant, the United States made reservations that none of the articles stated should restrict the right of free speech and association. Since the days of the pathetic George Bush and based on the false flag 9/11 charade, the introduction of the Patriot Act has allowed them to do that to themselves, the same law ratified again just last month by the President of Rhetoric, Obama. The once almost respected leader of the free world and model lawmaker, the US, has fallen a long way since those halcyon days of 1976.

In Australia, the acceptance by the people of our political leaders and their flocks, shows us clearly every day that the Parliament sits, sleeps, lies, argues, engages in theatrics, indulges in childishness petty behaviour and on, that we are also on the slippery slope downhill.

This whole Malaysian exercise is par for the course.

Dear Macedonian advocacy

There is an ever so subtle difference between accommodating probable genuine war REFUGEES crossing the border into a region which only recently became a separate country to the one they left to accepting people who have 'fled' across a number of countries to reach Australia via illegal and corrupt means.

Doesn't even compare in my books. In any case the idiocy of the incumbent Labor Government literally opening up business for the people smugglers and illegals is to blame for the mess. Any measure which dissuades either party is fine by me. No tears shed, sorry.