Dear Shadow Minister,

Why would they get on another boat if they know that
they will be sent back to where they started from each
time? BTW: What is the cost per person to house asylum
seekers in Nauru?

When humans first left the caves and started to live as community's we bought in our DNA other things.
It must, to most of us, be clear we bought the wish to defend our camps and villages.
And rules to see we lived with civility in those camps, towns, villages.
I think it remains part of our DNA/ built in self preservation .
This matter, fights our internal hard wired wishes.
All views have value,we said that too, for the same reasons I think.
But would our camps, modern day but still camps, would our community be livable,able to survive if majority views got rolled every time.

NEGATIVE MAN is using this issue, our built in fears and concerns, to miss lead us all.
He, his followers, want offshore processing, Labor,dragged by the camps shouted wishes wants it too.
But Greens in bed with the strangest bed fellow of Bob Browns life Tony Abbott, are challenging the wishes of the camp dwellers.
With the help of some, seemingly unaware, they fight them selves.

A day hopefully, will come, when we are able to both see minority views, take them on board, not be forced to consume them.
We,if left to resolve refugees without pressure from ill informed, could spend every dollar we do in this endless problem.
Making a life, at home, not here for boat people.

Lexi,

The cost of housing people at Nauru was more expensive per person (not by much), but as a total it is a tiny fraction of what the present on shore processing costs.

Only 43% of those going to Nauru achieve asylum in Australia, compared to 99% under the present policy.

If LYING woman could 'fess up to her failures and re instate the pacific solution then the boats would stop.

SM,

Again with the half-truths.

The cost per person for Nauru was $600,000 which is
more than your claim of "just a little bit more."
Plus, it was actually 61% who were resettled in
Australia not 43% as you claim.

As experts have pointed out - your average people
smuggler would not have to be all that bright to be
able to sell to a potential client that there was
a high chance of success in finishing
up in Australia after spending some time on a
Pacific Island - rather than in camps in Indonesia
or Malaysia. They would jump at the chance being
offered to them.

I won't say any more to you. There's no point.

Lexi,

You are spouting half truths. Only in the latter stages of Nauru, when there were relatively few people did the costs escalate to $600 000 per person.

Of those sent to Nauru only 43% were resettled in Australia. The figure you are quoting is the % of those accepted as refugees that were sent to Australia. So stop lying.