http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/people-smuggling-crisis-advice-given-on-duping-officials/story-fn7x8me2-1226406361180

What no party is addressing is the reality that the UN Convention
is 60 years out of date and people are jumping through big holes
in the sieve. So rather than accepting the neediest 13000 people,
we accept those with the money, who can play the system like a
fiddle. Australia, the gullible nation!

Our politicians need testicles. Update our agreement to the Convention, as the UNHCR is not going to do it, without it being
pushed.

Until this is done, the present jokes will continue. We really need
a bipartisan approach to that, so that it can happen and finally
a solution be found which matches the reality of 2012, not 1951.

Juliar should simply stop saying Noooooooo to the proven pacific solution. Until she tries this, she has no leg to stand on.

George Orwell is reported to have said (it may be apocyphal) that "some ideas are so stupid only an academic could believe them"

Emeritus Professor Kessler surely exemplifies that statement with this offering:

"Implementation of the “Malaysia solution” would soon put enormous pressure on Malaysia to treat all refugees there in the same, more “enlightened” way, in accordance with the basic requirements of international human rights law and practice."

"Beyond that, this liberalising momentum would, in turn, further increase humane pressures on Malaysia to act in general in accordance with international human rights law and practice, not simply in refugee and immigration matters but towards its own citizens, all of them"

IF off-shore processing,

then why not Nauru ?

Nauru has signed the necessary human rights conventions. Malaysia hasn't.

But of course, as Dr Kessler suggests, we can tell Malaysia to (a) take our refugees and (b) sign the necessary conventions.

And quick-smart too.

So that's the European economic crisis sorted, the refugee crisis sorted AND Malaysia's human rights agenda improved.

Not a bad day's work, Julia :)

When will they ever learn from us ?

No. It is illegal, we don't trade and traffic in human beings and break the law and our own constitution to do it.

We want to let people get here and then send them away to die.

Is there something in your brains that makes you cretins.

Sorry Marylin, but despite you wanting to bemother them all,
Australia cannot save the world.

We need to come clean on what we actually believe. We'll accept
13000 a year and it would be nice to think that these are the
most deserving, not those best able to manipulate the system to
their advantage.

The present UN Convention is a joke, we need to update it.