You're kidding, we are spending $100,000 per year, per person, just so we can care for these illegals in tent city.

There must be hundreds of our own pensioners wondering just how they can catch one of these boats. Hell, most of them would be happy to bring their own tent.

What a complete joke this government is.

I say enough is enough, STOP WASTING MY TAXES!

People get the Govt which they deserve, Rectub. So they pay for
the consequences of their actions. Just like the Americans voted
for Bush, who landed up wrecking their country. Nobody said that
democracy is a great system, its simply the least worst.

Dear Butcher,

They are, until designated otherwise by the proper authorities, refugees.

I suppose you have to do two things to make your complaint a valid one. First show evidence that $100,000 dollars a year is being spent on every individual refugee and secondly prove you are paying tax, or at least the benefits you receive from this government are exceeded by the amount of tax you pay.

Unless you are able to furnish proper documentation to that effect then you will be deemed to be taking more than you are giving, in other words bludging off the system.

If that is the case, and I suspect it might be, you need to put a sock in it!

That figure is wrong because it does not take into account.
1) The navy taxi service that picked most of them up in Indonesian waters
2) the payment that will be made to the charities that will look after them
3) They will not have factored in the following things which will end up costing MILLIONS 1) the legal fees when they take the Gov to court 2) The cost of repairs after they hold the first and subsequent riots and destroy the facility.
Even the UN has said a lot of them are ECONOMIC refugees.
Australia the sucker country.

Government hypocrisy - If an Australian citizen was injured on Christmas Island do you think the Government would charter a 737 jet to fly the citizen to Perth.

I am sure you all said NO.

But that is precisely what the Government did for one of the refugees. I would say that 1 person alone has cost more than $100 thousand dollars, courtesy of the Australian taxpayer.

The figure you quote is wrong - Quote "The Houston expert panel report on asylum seeker boat arrivals released on Monday put the cost of the new arrangements, including reopening detention centres on Nauru and Manus Island, at $4.6 billion."
It gives no details how they arrived at that or if it a figure over an operational period.
But it is enough to go to Indonesia and buy every damn boat and have a big bonfire. Then lets see what they use bathtubs