It will be a cold day in Hell before Lexi ever admits anything positive about Australia.

otb,

"It'll e a cold day in hell before Lexi ever admits anything positive about Australia,"

What a bunch of crap!

But you would say that anyway, Poirot. You have heaps of form yourself.

Time for you and Lexi to indulge in stroking and grooming each other, with your usual baby talk as well. Where is 'Lex'? LOL

All good fun, girls, but BTT:

* This government has increased the annual refugee intake from 14,000 to 20,000;

* People arriving by boats are, in their desperation, trying to detour around this annual intake and jump the queue (yes, of course, there is one: forty million refugees in the world ?);

* Regardless of what proportion of those people are not actually refugees, but economic migrants without entry papers, there is a process, and an annual quota, and 'boat-people' are, by definition, not part of that quota;

* So: should the boats be allowed to land, or be towed, to Christmas Island etc., and after health and security checks, etc., all genuine refugees be brought to the mainland and released into the general community, with the right to work ? Should they be accepted as part of that annual quota (which means that those who have applied properly now move further back in the queue) ?

* OR should those arriving without proper entry papers be set to Nauru or Manus and told to wait their turn ?

* OR should the boats be towed back into Indonesian/Sri Lankan waters and handed over to those authorities ?

* OR should the people on those boats be taken to Christmas Island, given all health and medical services that they may nee, and then flown back to their country of departure, with x thousand dollars per person for the government concerned for their troubles ?

No easy solutions.

Joe

Loudmouth,

"All good fun girls, but BTT."

Ahem, Joe,....whadaya mean "girls"?

The last page or so has been filled with guys "off topic" giving a commentary on Lexi and her style.

Isn't it strange that you call for the girls to get "BTT" even when it's the fellas waxing lyrical off topic on the subject of one of the women contributors here.

(Notwithstanding that I put my brief two cents-worth in:)

Thank you, Poirot, for your valuable contributions.

Now BTT.

Cheers :)

Joe