Poirot - Until a reasonable number are sent to PNG, the Economic Invaders will not believe it and will still come.

Most will stop when they see PNG solution is serious and they will never get to the land of the golden handshake.

They kept coming because up to 2 days ago no one was sent there, but now they will contact the relatives etc and say where they are.

We cannot trust Rudd to follow through or succeed going on his track record. Seeing Labour is planning new detention centres on the mainland is very suspicious. Hopefully Rudd and Labour will be history in six weeks.

I fully agree that we won't see an immediate cessation of the boats until 'the word' is fully out there and understood. Let's see if the numbers begin to decline over the next couple months and then judge the effectiveness.

Now Rudd's got in on Abbott's Nauru solution.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-03/rudd-announces-asylum-policy/4863226

Loads of room for our cast offs on this tropical paradise.

http://www.worldfortravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Nauru.jpg

sbr108,
<<We cannot trust Rudd to follow through>>
Agreed. I can well envisage Rudd having a sudden change of mind --after the election of course! He loves to play to the international conference set. Remember his grand entrance to the Bali Climate Change Conference in 2007.

Philip S,
<<Until a reasonable number are sent to PNG, the Economic Invaders will not believe it and will still come>>
It may take a bit longer since we have record of backing down.
And, they will be well aware that the legal vultures are circling looking for a way to challenge it.

Poriot,
<<Now Rudd's got in on Abbott's Nauru solution>>
Look Poriot, it's no good you singing Kevin's praises, we're not going to change our vote!