Cohenite, To answer your question in as gracious and unsupercilious manner as I can muster. I do not know, and indeed no-one knows because their claims to refugee status have not been considered in a proper manner by the proper authorities.

What we have done is intercept these people and then ship them off to some malaria infested camp where they have been told that even if they are found to be refugees they will still not be allowed into Australia. That is in breach of numerous obligations Australia has.

We learn today that the lamentable Julie Bishop has asked the Cambodians to take some refugees. That would be laughable if it were not so tragic.

We also learn that our non-wimp (per Abbott as though it were a plus) minister Morrison has got it horribly wrong yet again. He is either poorly advised or a liar or both. It does hold a lesson for some of the above commenters however: stay quiet until all the facts are in.

James O'Neil it must really irk you that this is going so well for the Government.
See, here is the thing, these shysters are all after easy money from us. We pay, they play. Terrified but as soon as they have status they are straight back home for a visit.
This is the solution, pay an even worse third world country to take them as refugees. I am staggered that the EU have not followed suit.
I thought Kevin Rudd could not think and it was his solution! Well done Kevin, now you can go and fleece people with your charity nonsense.

JB "This is going so well for the government". What parallel universe are you occupying?

Nauru, Manus Island, Morrison a fool and a liar. A 15% swing against the LNP in the Queensland by-election. Bishop raising Cambodia as a possible venue for asylum seekers. Spying on the East Timorese at the instigation of Downer and then Downer takes a plum job with Woodside, the principal beneficiaries of the spying. Removing funding from alcohol and drug advice quango. Abbott et al shown to be complete idiots on science. Abbott dividing the world into "goodies" and "baddies" to the consternation and merriment of all.

That is just a sample, and they have only been in office 5 months. What further trashing of our society and our international reputation will they achieve in the next 2& 1/2 years.

No doubt you and your fellow fruitcakes will see it all as a glorious success.

James, I am not going to deal with the litany of other complaints you list against this government. I'll stick with the Manus island one.

The number of genuine refugees on Manus is zero because all of them had the financial where withal to get to Indonesia and then pay a another considerable sum to corrupt Indonesians to hitch a ride to Australia, while simultaneously disposing of their identification which they had when they entered Indonesia legally. They therefore fail any definition of refugee.

I don't know why that is so hard to understand, it is so plain.

Perhaps your litany of complaints against this government does come into play because obviously you are not a supporter and obviously you are a leftie who cannot distinguish plus and minus aspects if you are so emphatically opposed to a government. That is unreasonable!

All I say to you James O'Neil is suck it up princess.
Tony Abbott is running things very well thank you. You will just have to wait for the next election.
I think if you are spewing like this after 5 months what will you be like in another 31 months?

Yes, James, perhaps we should not be so pleased with the Abbott government when we consider the matters you raise.

I thought we were ten thousand times better off than when we had the Labor shambles, but if we deduct points for the negatives you have raised we might be only be 9.9 thousand times better off.

It is a great feeling to have a properly managed country again. After the 6 years of insanity we have endured, it is satisfying to see new management in place, and the clean-up of the Labor debacle started.