Entertaining post about Clive Palmer NT, SPQR, but what of his idea?

Oh Dear, this idea is probably the most impractical that I have seen so far.
Do you really think that there are enough aircraft available to bring
the millions that would front up ?

The one positive thing the smugglers do is to filter out those who are
aware of the dangers at sea.

A more practical scheme might be to charter the Queen Mary and run a
ferry service from Indonesia to Melbourne.
Melbourne wants to be bigger than Sydney so lets help them.

@ Luciferase

<<entertaining post about Clive Palmer NT, SPQR, but what of his idea?

As Sheldon would say: “Pure hokum!”

For further details, see the comment from Bazz, above.

Well it's a step up from the ten pound poms.

It is my understanding that Clive Palmer never offered to fly or ferry refugees into Australia, but rather to allow them to pay their own $800 air-ticket and come.

<<allow them to pay their own $800 air-ticket and come>>

LOL

Two weeks of (Oz) welfare would reimburse their seed capital.

And three months welfare would be enough to secure the passage of their relos.

With that sort of return-on-investment it would be a real growth industry