When in your life have you witnessed a single dispute where one side was entirely pure and innocent, the other entirely wrong?
Yebiga,
Do you relly think Israel would continue their tactics if the Palestinians would stop terrorising ? And don't tell me about the Isrealis taking their land. What do those Palestinians who come to Australia do then ? Aren't they occupying australian territory ? Should Australians perhaps terrorise palestinian enclaves here ?

"KAREN BARLOW: In hot and humid conditions, 400 single male asylum seekers, more than half from Sri Lanka, have been living 16 men to a tent."

I have lived in a 16 man tent, it's not perfect but it's not bad; but usually it was 12 men when there were two petrol heating stoves installed, but as the outside temperature, at night, could drop to around -30°F. they were considered necessary.

Most of what Barlow says is, by her own admission, hearsay and people who hang themselves in front of witnesses are sure of being rescued.

Peirot: By your standards

Deflection again. A leopard never changes it's spots, eh.

By your standards the entire ME should vacate the area because Sunnies persecute Shite & shite persecute Sunnies & Sunnies & Shite's persecute Allawatties & Whabbies hate everybody. The problem is that wherever they go they will take their hate with them to the places they go to because those places aren't Islamic.

With the risk of offending the gentlemen of the artillery, Repeat. Repeat.

Also Peirot you are deflecting off subject again. The subject is "Indefinite detention causes serious harm." If you can't stick to the subject then W#@C# 0## ^0ddy.

Regarding the heat. These people come from a country where it is 40/50 degrees during the day & minus XX at night. They are in a purpose built resort with facilities they never had in the ME at home or in the UNCHR provided Camps. There are plenty of children for them to play with. Admittedly it's not the Hilton which is what they think they should have but is good clean accommodation provided they keep it clean. They would have better accommodation if they didn't keep burning it down. If they kept their documentation instead of throwing it overboard their processing wouldn't take so long.

Andrew,I am so over this crap that I couldn't be bothered reading yet another bleeding heart story aout this Rudd introduced fiasco.

Furthermore, there is a very simple solution, STOP COMING HERE!

Geez, we might even be able to achieve some good FOR OUR PEOPLE with the taxes we would save.

Mr Bartlett. As of this morning,21/2,why have you not responded even to one of the 28 replies? Is this avoidance of intellectual integrity appropriate for a Research Fellow at ANU?

Leslie,

It is possibly because Andrew Bartlett is waiting for a reasoned conversation to emerge from the ruck of off-topic and ad hominem comments (including yours).

Brian of Buderim