SM,

Thinking logically if a boat arrives from Indonesia into
Australian waters and the asylum seekers are taken to
Nauru in the middle of the Pacific in the general direction
to which they were travelling with the likelihood that
they would end up in Australia they will continue to
use boat smugglers and continue to take the risks.
In addition flying the boat people from Christmas Island
to Nauru and later back to Australia - is very expensive.

With the Malaysia Solution we should not consider 800
refugees as the limit, the numbers can always be
re-negotiated in the future. If a refugee ends up in
Australian waters and then Christmas Island it is a
relatively short and less expensive air flight to
Malaysia back to where they originally started.

It defeats the purpose of catching leaky boats, risking
drowning, and ending up back where they started.

Now which do you think works better?

You know, that by feigning pretend sympathy in an issue solely on the grounds of whether your preferred party happened to be in government in order to implement it- it is less likely to be resolved, and more likely the opposition will be handed enough rope you keep spinning, to tie you up with?

The simple solution would be to bar entry to Asylum seekers altogether.
Refugees from Iran and Afghanistan reportedly have the worst prospects for integration into the workforce. Since the Refugee resettlement program is nothing more than a labour deployment system it must be really irksome to the government, business and the NGO's involved in training and deploying them that this flow of irregular arrivals is eating into their supply of zealous, hard working Christians from Africa.

I think both sides are paying the political price of the opportunistic hate-mongering that started it all off with the Tampa and our society has been diminished as a result.

Defying agreed convention, the LNP desperately played the race card to win an election and the ALP was too gutless to match it with a moral stance.

We've already had the Christmas Island sinking as well as the Siev-X and there will be more to come.

The real tragedy is that the politicians are not the real victims.

Nauru will no longer be a viable option, nor will towing back the boats. The former was just an expensive extra step in the inevitable result of being granted refugee status and the latter is strongly being protested by Indonesia.

Claiming that they were some sort of miraculous solution is like me claiming that I make it rain whenever I wash my car - a fortunate coincidence.

Lexi we both know better.
I put these truths in to the muddy waters,,, again.
Yes Labor, in hindsight was wrong to stop Nehru.
That was some time ago.
NOTE! SM again informs us on what evidence?
Had the high court not stopped the Malaysian solution, IT NEVER STARTED, it would by now have failed, on what evidence.
Now unloved by many here is truth.
Today, the very same advisers who talked to John Howard,told our PM [not for long]and Abbott Nehru will no longer work.
It stopped boats once, but not now.
Abbott is misusing us all, he, tell me SM it is untrue, is supporting GREENS to hurt Australian Labor and his party's policy's.
After an election if Abbott won and needed ALP to get offshore processing?
Watch the EEL like slippery sliding from todays blind sheep if we act as badly as they do now.
Liberalism is in the hands of a destructive little [in every way] self interested traitor to his own party.
Not for long.
By ANY measure Abbott along side John Howard is lower than his old bosses ankle

So when is the PM going to realize she is simply out of her debth?

How many failed schemes and projects will it take before she comes to terms with that?

She is an embaresment to everyone and, due to her dodgy dealings, even the labor party are stuck with her.

She should call an election and give someone else a go as she and her position of being Hogg tied by these independents is just crippling us.

At least then we will rid our nation of these incompitent back stabbing independents as well.