Gypsy, you just invocked a thought, what would the cost comparison be between processing, housing ect of the illegals, compared to supplying specially fitted out ferries to provide a SAFE JOURNEY back to where they came from.

If affordable, the boats could be intercepted, the passengers transferred to the ferries and returned, the crew imprisoned and the boats burned at sea.

Who knows, it may even work as a deterrent.

Good idea rechtub. At the moment there is no deterrent to remedy the problem so anything that works would be better than none. As for the costs that is a difficult one to work out.

The people smugglers are laughing all the way to the bank and know they have very little if anything to fear under the current system and even the refugees must be laughing.

The offshore camps are or have filled to there capacity so the government will have to bring them to Australia then use the easy way out by relocating them into the community all at the expense to us the tax payers.