Paul,

I am an atheist, and it is good to see you support a tough policy on illegal immigrants and agree that Sarah Hanson Young and Christine Milne are wildly delusional.

Note that as the PNG solution so far applies only to single males, the coalition policies of tow back and TPVs are still necessary.

SM

<<Note that as the PNG solution so far applies only to single males>>

Wow! That I didn't know.

Then it is full of holes, it will leak like a sieve.

The boats will now be filled with woman and children and "family men", who will then in turn sponsor all the single men over from PNG.

I bet, even now, all the illegals waiting in Indonesia are hard at it making babies, so they can appear good family men and clear the entry bar!

"Another great challenge of our age is asylum seekers. The biblical injunction to care for the stranger in our midst is clear. The parable of the Good Samaritan is but one of many which deal with the matter of how we should respond to a vulnerable stranger in our midst. That is why the government's proposal to excise the Australian mainland from the entire Australian migration zone and to rely almost exclusively on the so-called Pacific Solution should be the cause of great ethical concern to all the Christian churches. We should never forget that the reason we have a UN convention on the protection of refugees is in large part because of the horror of the Holocaust, when the West (including Australia) turned its back on the Jewish people of Germany and the other occupied countries of Europe who sought asylum during the '30s."

The above is Kevin Rudd from 2006 in an article titled "Faith in Politics".

Hypocrisy much......

@Poirot,

Funny that should mention the good Samaritans. The Samaritans are now a isolated, persecuted, dwindling minority in their old homeland.

" the Samaritans suffered many hardships which included forced conversion to Christianity, forced conversion to Islam, harsh religious decrees, massacre and persecution.

While the majority of the Samaritan population in Damascus was killed or converted during the reign of the Ottoman Pasha Mardam Beq in the early 17th century"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaritans

A lot of good their good neighborly approached proved ,ay?

Foolhardiness much...

SPQR,

It was Rudd's hypocrisy that I was alluding to.

Quite stunning I thought.

And all in order to destroy Abbott's arsenal......not resting on any ethical or moral imperative.

Poirot,

<< Rudd's hypocrisy ...[is]Quite stunning>>

But those on this side of the house already knew that!

What is even more stunning -- and portentous! --is how the good Samaritan folk ended up being shafted by all and sundry. I sincerely hope that in 200 years what remains of Oz is not confined to some desert camp surrounded by hostile intruders.

But let your little heart bleed not, if the new PNG arrangement only applies to *single males* --as Shadow Minister indicates --it will be less than useless, every male that lands hereafter will be a certified family man --I guarantee it!