As Ross Peake writes in the Canberra Times -
"It would be much cheaper to process boat
arrivals on Christmas Island and increase
the humanitarian intake, but that wouldn't
be seen as tough."

Being seen as tough is what this deal is
all about.

SM:>> With a boat arriving every week at present, the heat will be on Chris Bowen. The proof of the pudding will be:<<

SM I am pleased to see that you STILL have expectations of this government, I have none. Am I imagining this, but the gov library page that records boat arrivals since 1976 is down, probably for the count, get the pun?
Step 1. www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/bn/sp/boatarrivals.htm

Step 2. Get your morning Pravda everything’s fine and the Rabbitoh’s come back from 20 down.

Belly once again, the party you support are not in Canberra. I heard a blue ribbon Lib bemoaning the fact that old Labor had gone and with it went Australian political parity.

RETRACTION: THE SITE IS BACK UP. It seems that there were too many users.

I am quite happy to say I think it is going to work.
Belly,
yep, for anti Western, Anti Australia.

If the new plan reaches what the pacific solution achieved of 3 boats a year, then they can claim it has worked.

Until then, all they have is less of a balls up, but still a balls up.

http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/2820028.html

Here is an article from the ABC showing that the support for the Malaysian solution has crashed.

I would guess that the Labor policy development team is secretly working for the opposition.