Ah yes, the final clang of the Noalition's symbols of discord - potentially unlimited refugees and huge expense. How pathetically predictable.

*Shadow* don't you think you should be out locking up some children and inflicting mental harm on them? Don't forget to say that you believe that you are doing it for their own good just in case.

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*Lucifer* visa vi the fly em in strategy, I think you might be on to something there. .. Get the *Foreign Minister* in here and get SBY on the line, do a count and round 'em up pending preliminary id, health and security checks. While you are at it, get some transports and intercept craft out there on the front lines and keep an eye out for overly adventurous Chinese subs while you're at it.

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*Scribbler* being a sig to the convention means little. What counts is what has been enshrined in Oz law, thus *Banjo* is correct, but that's not to say that I agree with it. Likewise with "Civil and Political Rights" in that H.R.E.O.C. is limited by both immigration and social security law. .. Thereafter, distressed and at risk Asylum Seekers deserve priority both on humanitarian grounds and overlapping laws such as the "law of the sea." .. Thereafter, for those in the camps, tough break but they are safe enough relative to those on boats and will have to sit tight, perhaps with the assistance of a bit of diverted AUSAID budget instead of just feeding it out to corrupt regimes who cream 90% of it.

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*Lucifer* you can get rid of the settlers, skilled entrants, business and others to a large extent as far as I am concerned. The place is already overly full of corruption kiddies of despotic and totalitarian regimes.

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*Phillip S* - yes, they are relatively expensive, no doubt about it.

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*Scribbler* the entire process needs to be handed over to the judiciary and out of the hands of unqualified tin pot executive tribunals. Thereafter, universal legal access and lawyers on a sustainable fund is what is required.

Dream on.

"*Shadow* don't you think you should be out locking up some children and inflicting mental harm on them?"

Why bother while you are content to drown them or have them sent to be beaten.