This article makes me wonder what she's smoking at 4:00AM

Very trippy idea Isobel.

Another fine White supremacist article from Isobel, "we" must lead eh? Is that "we" the people who invented the concept of human rights, albeit in an age when "we" were 2/3 of the world's population. Now that "we're" only 9% and falling that whole minority/majority thing is turned on it's head, as should be the concept of universal human rights.

Does the author realise where the problem starts?

It starts with the obligations of the refugee convention, which demands that those who sign it, not only provide a safe-haven for arriving refugees, but also supply them with more than a reasonable person is willing to afford. On top of this, the convention forcibly defines who is a refugee, overriding common sense and making the process of sorting expensive in itself.

Once Australia withdraws from this stupid convention, which no government is willing to follow in truth and spirit anyway, the cruelty should stop because government will no longer feel that they must turn refugees away in order to protect Australians from the unacceptable costs that are required by that convention alone.

Come off the raw prawn love, if you think we are silly enough to fall for this garbage you are the fool.

We4 know none of these people are held against their will, they are just not permitted to enter Australia.

We the long suffering taxpayer will pay to fly them home any time they like, at our expense. They stay where they are, hoping clowns will bleat loudly enough to force us to take them in, & keep them for life, in the luxury we would like to achieve for ourselves.

Why don't you look around a little. You can find all types of more deserving people than these gate crashers, you could try to help. But please pay for your charity from your own pocket. I have other priorities, as do most taxpayers.

Whether you like them or not, why are the people in question called "asylum seekers"?

Have they actually ever asked for asylum?

Why would they do so anyway, given that the Australian government firmly declared that they won't have it come what may?

What we have instead are seafarers, victims of piracy, snatched from their boats on the high seas without asking for anything, then arrested indefinitely in cruel and secret conditions.

Isobel, I'm trying to defend you in an argument with an acquaintance who's arguing that you're a stinking hypocrite, and I'm telling him that you're not and I can prove it.

So could you please hurry up and post the signed original deed and declaration undertaking to pay for asylum-seekers to the standard that you say other people should be forced to pay for?

All the members of the ALP and Greens will sign, so you don't need to worry about losing all your property. I think. But even if that did happen, it would be worth it, wouldn't it? Wouldn't it?

Could you hurry up please?

Either post it or admit that you're a phony.