Poirot, "Housed in containers....on a tropical island"

Maybe you have never had occasion to look at the booming industry in cube houses from shipping containers. Cyclone proof. Easily relocated. Easily worked on after simple instruction.

Cooling?
Roofing with clearance for airflow, external ceramic paints and sprayed insulation are all alternatives. Solar powered airconditioning could be an additional luxury.

Tres green recycling, surprising you are not up to speed on it..

onthebeach,

No doubt they could be fashioned with adequate insulation to serve the purpose.

I'm not supposing that the Australian authorities are much interested in providing habitable long-term accommodation for refugees on Manus - and certainly not that which would suffice for our own population.

Judging by revelations like this from Salvation Army workers on Nauru:

"We have worked alongside these asylum seekers since the opening of the NRPC when the men were first housed in tents. Brought them pedestal fans when the temperature within their tents soared to over 50 degrees. Used buckets to empty rivers of rainwater when the same temporary accommodation flooded during the wet season."

My opinion is if these men have families in home countries as stated why are they on Nauru having abandoned their family? Fly them back home! If their home country is good enough to leave their families there it is good enough for them. They are not refugees otherwise they would have their families with them.

I have a friend in Austria working among refugees from the Middle East and they have their whole family together.

Dear Poirot,

I've just received various links on this topic
from New Matilda. Here's one that may interest
you seeing as you don't find it difficult to
make sense of things that haven't passed through
the MSM colon. ;-)

You know how I enjoy delivering alternative viewpoints.

http://newmatilda.com/our-contract-with-manus

SPQR is fierce
His teeth can pierce
The skin of Lexi's knee
It serves him right
That, because of his bite
She can't take him seriously.

(Adapted from an early nursery rhyme).

There are refugees and there are more selective refugees. These refugees are coming for the AU refugee conditions and lifestyle. Why else pass through a host of other countries to get here. We are to soft.
The Solomon isl's is on track to be extra storage. Thanks to Abbott's advertising, and a handful of others like the greens.
They can live like their host country.
Tents and shanties, and some luxury containers as well.

@Lexi

And I just thinking out that "Lexi" must stand for:
Leggy, Elegant, Xena-like Individual

Now I'll have to go back and think up less generous combination.