Bazz - The real heman thing to do would be to load them on a Hercules fly to a remote airport in their country and push them out the back and take off without even stopping engines.

:) :) :) However I could just imagine the screams from the lunatic do-gooder element

I am convinced that at least some of the answer is to effect Indonesia in a financial way if they don't stop the boats leaving their shores.

Furthermore, if we do intercept these boats, offload the passengers on to special purpose ferries, lock up the crews, burn the boats and return the passengers to Indonesia where they came from.

If they (ind) don't like that, then they have to stop the boats leaving.

I say again, stop the aid and they will sit up and take notice.

rehctub - I am convinced that at least some of the answer is to effect Indonesia in a financial way if they don't stop the boats leaving their shores.

One has to wonder why neither the red-headed witch or the RAbbott haven't seized on that. We've given the indonesians billions in financial aid & given its easily the most corrupt regime on the planet, we are undoubtedly paying for weapons & handouts to the fatcats rather than improving the lot of the peasants. I wonder what would be the implications of no passports as noted by Bazz, logically one would think the indonesians have to accept people who came from there, but in view of the rampant corruption endemic to all levels of indonesian culture, I can envisage the necessity for a big stick approach. Note also that Australia is already in the firing line of islamics we've offended by sticking our nose into their affairs in both Iraq & Afghanistan, we'd need some pretty smart military folk (not moronic politicians) to get their heads around the pros & cons of stirring up another hornets nest.

I think the time of Neville Chamberlain is over as far as worrying
about Islamists. It is simple, the boats are Indonesian.
There is no other point to be argued.