doog,

What an impressive person you are!

Gosh, aren't we glad you've chosen OLO to unload your mangled wisdom.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-07-24/harris-rimmer-the-top-10-mistakes-in-rudds-png-solution/4838586

Housed in containers....on a tropical island.

What a great slow-cooking idea!

But wouldn't it be be quicker to just boil them in oil?

@Poirot,

I see that you have cherry picked your way through the latest Lateline beat-up -- who would have thought, ay!

<<"In Australia, the facility couldn't even serve as a dog kennel. The owners would be jailed."
Shame.>>

I reckon you must now be level pegging with CSteele for the end of year OLO Cherry Picker Award after this mornings contribution across threads.

Look at it this way Poirot: if we are NOT able to control our borders , what you have been told about Manus, will become the norm in the whole of Oz in the future. If we are Not able to control who settles here, Oz we will morph into just another south Asian slum

Mind you, all the then slum dwellers will probably erect a statue in the central market place to you, in appreciation of all the good work you did in fighting for open borders. And you indirectly will have solved the illegal immigration issue--since, thereafter, no one will want to boat here for "asylum or any other reason--but it wont be a pretty fate.

SPQR,

That's a laugh coming from Mr Cherry-picker extraordinaire : )

It was SBS, not Lateline.

No criticism of our authorities treating other humans that way?

Why am I not surprised?

More boaters dead today, We have to be cruel to be kind. Being told what we need by smugglers does not suit our cause.
If they get any better accommodation than the people of PNG would simply be wrong.
A tent or a container what's the diff.
We can't have these people demanding 5 star housing, it's their decision to abscond from wherever they came from.
All these people will achieve is to drag our standard down to theirs.
Your sympathy is unfounded.

PQR,

I caught the *show* but got the channel mixed --afterall, there is not a lot of difference between Bib and Bub (the ABC & SBS) on this issue (and many many others)

Conditions on Manus might be somewhat poorer than what we might desire --but they are hardly surprising -- given the use of Manus was a stop gap measure.

But if you are in the mood to name and blame?
Part of the blame for it needing to be used must be attributed to people like yourself who are always agitation for what amounts to open borders.

And taking it one step further, if there are persons on Manus engaging in rape.Are you willing to call for/support their immediate deportation?
Or, do you reserve your moral indignation --as usual--only for Oz/PNG authorities?

PQR, s/b Poirot
(that's the trouble with cut and paste --I'll have to get a lesson from Lexi she's the OLO champ)