SM is still insisting it's Indonesia's problem, even though they come from Malaysia to catch a boat.
Some are thicker than bricks, just can't get it. Tony is their master. What about Turnbull, the bloke that got harpooned by one vote, the polls say he can winn the election now.
A far more comprehensive man than Abbott will ever be

How is Abbott going to top this one? Short of promising to gouge out eyes and cut off limbs there not much Tony Boloney can promise.

"Do you reckon all the over-stayers will be sent to Manus too?" Good point Poirot. I can see Chuck the Septic Tank who has been here illegally for the past 2 years, being caught without a visa, shipped off to Manus Island for re-settlement in PNG.
Did PNG's Peter O'Neill snag a top deal. The best outcome for them is, it works and stops the boats permanently and PNG pockets the bikkies (billions of $$$) at no cost to them. If it don't work, well PNG with be in trouble in the long term with Port Moresby full of new (unemployed) settlers.

So we're still counting the votes on Rudds new PNG initiative.

Paul1405'S vote has just been lodged --aaaaaand itsss a nay-- which translates to ANOTHER VOTE THAT THE POLICY HAS MERIT!

With regard to Paul's other ramblings:

<<Do you reckon all the over-stayers will be sent to Manus too?" >>
NO. Because the visa overstayers when caught/pushed will invariably return to their home countries

The boaties have the same option. They can return to their countries of origin --or anywhere else ---rather than Manus Is

And guess what, when confronted with the prospect of going to Manus a number of Sri Lankans have *suddenly remembered* that they were not persecuted at all and returned home!

<<If it don't work, well PNG with be in trouble in the long term with Port Moresby full of new (unemployed) settlers..
Nah! much better to have them unemployed and causing e trouble in OZ

The recent riot --the last of many --should serve as a forewarning of what to expect if they come here and cant get their way on anything-RIOT,RIOT,RIOT!

There will be a pause while the hand-wringing Luvvies -the 'Useful Idiots' of the Marxists- await advice from those 'independent' socialist blogs on how to re-adjust their lock-step to suit.

Then there are those 'rights' lawyers who know how to gouge large wads of $$ from the trough of TAXPAYERS' money. They help to build the victim industries that serve them so well.

All decisions affecting immigration shouod be made by the Immigration Department where the minister is directly responsible to Parliament. There should be NO appeal against its decisions. There should not be any separate quango of unelected highly paid persons making decisions or second-guessing Immigration, and through its (the quango's) decisions and lobbying frustrating the normal democratic processes.

I reckon this forum has just about achieved peak toxicity.

Just like the political landscape......

Dear Poirot,

Perhaps we should just wait and see regarding this
decision that has been made?

In the current "election"
conditions the PM had no other choice to counter the
Coalition's "tow back the boats," mantra but to find
an internationally acceptable regional solution that
would discourage desperate people risking travel
by leaky boats to Australia. In compensation for that
decision the migrant intake has been increased by
approximately 7 - 8 thousand a year. There will always
be people who will want to
by-pass the numerous displayed people's camps. However,
this may deter them from trying and will pull the rug
out from people smugglers. Those with money will of course
find alternative means of getting here - as they currently
do by plane.