Indi, one word answers your question, CORRUPTION!
rehctub,
I believe the whole show is far, far greater than just a bit of corruption. It's an agenda to which westerners need to wake up too & wake up fast.
We need to weed out those traitors from within who are prostituting our freedom in exchange for more indoctrinated stupidity.

Suseonline you obviously want these illegals and are sticking up for them BUT! They traverse many countries to get here and it is here they want to stay. To enjoy all the benefits that we have worked for. I am a legal migrant and have been here for 40 years. In that time my wife and I have always paid taxes and are happy to help our fellow Australians. A lot of despicable lazy no-hopers are not welcome to our taxes.
Oh yes and Tony Abbott WON the last election and all these complaints just raise his standing in the polls, thank you.

I grew up on the the former H.M.A.S. Tarangau, known also as the Lombrum PNG Naval Base so may possibly deign to have some knowledge of the proposed, and the newly constructed facility near the village of Mokerang (closer physically to the Momote airfield than the Lombrum Naval Base) It is & will go into the future as a Serco gravy train of epic proportions. The local villagers do not want it, the local member for Manus Province has spoken out strongly against it on behalf of Manusian peoples, but the PNG Gov't, Serco & Australian Gov't will go ahead anyway to avoid "breach of contract" worth Aus$Billion$ if they reneg now. Having been inside the Wickham Point (Darwin) facility as a contractor it saddens me to see the absolute waste of taxpayers funds. It on average would take several hours to just get keys to gain access to do a 15 minute repair to an air con unit there. A phalanx of governmental agencies doing what exactly?

Yes statistically there are more "irregular arrivals" coming by air as opposed to risking it by undertaking voyages from Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Irian Jaya, and such departure points. Our greatest risk is the lack of funds directed to man NORFORCE patrols. Vide the Roper River Bar (NT) incident some time back where 36 foreign nationals ran their vessel aground and were found wandering ashore. Dogs, cats, chickens...all infected with rabies. You worry about these people arriving? I sure as hell do ! Think for one moment the ramifications if full blown rabies or foot and mouth got ashore on the mainland? No beef exports let alone live exports, no lamb exports...so back to Manus Island...Big Brother makes sure you don't get near the Lombrum Point tent city, paramilitary goons escort you away, and the while the dogs bark, the circus rolls on as the late Peter Harvey would say.

SOL,

True genuine asylum seekers are not breaking the law, however, the human traffickers are, and so are the many thousands of economic migrants who destroy their documents so as to make determination of their status difficult. Secondly, none of these refugees are fleeing persecution in Indonesia.

Under labor's 5 years of incompetence, nearly 2000 people died at sea as a result.

579

Stop lying, Abbott never claimed that the boats would be stopped in the first 100 days.

Susieonline,

Here is footnote from your source you overlooked:

<< The views expressed do not reflect an official position of the Parliamentary Library, nor do they constitute professional legal opinion>>

Here it is again in case you blinked:

<< The views expressed do not reflect an official position of the Parliamentary Library, nor do they constitute professional legal opinion>>

And here is a link to Janet Phillips's other *lobbyist* articles:
http://apo.org.au/author/janet-phillips
NOTE THE COMMON THEME!

Better luck next time!

Kevin Rudd stupidly demolished the Pacific Solution which was working admirably. Most people including myself are not interested in daily or even weekly reports on the numbers of boat people which under labour were very depressing. I congratulate the Abbot government on finally doing something about these boat people. We have a government that is finally acting to stem the flow and we need to support them.
A nasty spinoff of the refugee industry is the flock of immigration lawyers it has generated. Maybe we could trade a few boatloads of immigration lawyers and Hanson-Young with Malaysia for a few boat loads of genuine refugees.