Dear bonmot,

Welcome back! I'll go with the "more humane,"
anytime - because not matter what is done
it won't discourage "more" from coming.
The law of averages and the global situation
tends to indicate that.

I guess that the estimated 400 dead at sea since 2008 would indicate that what we have now is more humane?

Dear SM,

I don't know old chap. Ask your Leader that question.
He may be able to explain to you why he's said No
to the government's attempts to rectify the situation
(as we've discussed previously). Your continued repetition
of this mantra - only results in us going round in
circles again and again. Come up with something new for
a change. Or go check in with your boss.

It's time for SM to get his/her own blog, perhaps calling it "The Complete Half-Truth" or "Blog of Belligerent Believers in SM's BS in the Face of All Evidence to the Contrary".

Anybody wasting their time trying to get this guy/gal to concede a single incontrovertible point of fact should instead get out and do their Christmas shopping, go for a jog, wash the dog, do some gardening, anything, and leave SM to it unless, that is, you actually enjoy chasing rabbits down burrow-holes or being duped in pea-and-thimble.

Get out while you still can bonmot

Hi Lexi, thanks.

Not often I disagree but you say "no matter what is done it won't discourage more from coming."

Let me put it this way, telling all and sundry that Australia will process their applications for refugee status on the mainland will not discourage more from coming, it will encourage them.
As the current statistics show.

Similarly, processing applications on Naru would have the same effect - jump on a boat to Christmas Island, Ashmore or the mainland, then get a free and safer ride to Naru, stay a while to be processed, then end up here anyway.

I'm not sure I understand the global situation as you have put it - my understanding is that Australia is relatively unique just because of our geography.

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SM
Perhaps you should read things in context - see my response to Lexi.

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Luciferase,
Thanks for your advice. Perhaps Graham can provide 'The Shadow' with his own blog on The Domain?

Dear bonmot,

My apologies for not expressing things correctly.
I was in the middle of doing something else and
got side-tracked. I meant to say that refugees
will not be stopped by the solutions we have
on offer currently - as a result of the troublesome
global situations that exist in the world today
causing people to flee their countries and regimes.
As Luciferase suggests - we should leave this
thread and I agree. See you on another one.
SM should be given his own blog - where he can
preach to the converted.