There are 34 Australian citizens in trouble.
These women and children must be helped to return home.
If in fact they have broken Australian Law, it is our problem, not someone else's.
We should not inflict our problems on another country.
And only the breaking of Australian Law should be considered.
Laws broken in another country are that country's problem, not ours.
The present approach by major political parties reminds me of schoolyard attitudes.
Which are often driven by impulse rather than reason.
Time for them to stop saying what they think people want to hear.
Time for them to tell the public what we should be doing.
I think we need to do what we can lawfully to facilitate the return of those 34.
It is disgraceful that we are allowing such a petty response to continue.
The vast majority of the 34 are children, which makes our approach all the more troublesome.
It is time for sanity to rule.