It will be interesting to see how a history written further down the track will treat this current illegal immigrant/refugee problem.
The benefit of hindsight may present a totally different picture to the one we now see.
Who knows?
I have my personal views but they are not based on wisdom or knowledge and as such are subject to change as more information becomes available.
Interesting posts to date without a doubt.
SD

Just in hindsight.
I have visited Manus but it was a long time ago when I lived in the area.
A far happier place back then than it is today.
SD

Shaggy that will depend who owns Oz by then.

If it is the Chinese, it will be of no interest.

If we Ozzies still own it, it won't be of much more interest, except for a little self congratulations on a job well done.

If it has become a Muslim dictatorship, the story will be blown out of all proportion to justify the dreadful treatment they will hand out to everyone else.

Hasbeen,
Whatever; I do not think any of our recent Prime Ministers will rate too highly when it comes to a history of the last 20 to 30 years or so.
Australia appears to have gone off the boil when it comes to breeding leaders.
SD

I lived on, and grew up on Manus Island, at Lombrum the old navy base where the detention centre now sits. Once closed down and now re-opened, like an old festering wound that it is for Manusians.

Ronnie Knight (the local MP for Manus who fought strongly against the PNG government for detention centre being reopened by Australian Government) said all it = is Big $ for PNG government. HMAS Choules just finished a huge construction operation there to start on a 3,500 bed centre at Mokerang village - closer to Momote airport, (supposedly easier to reinforce & isolate if trouble brews). Current centre at Lombrum is on Manus Is, but new one will be on Los Negros Is.

Locals, people in Lombrum and around the area, are dead against it. Local labour being paid pittances on construction job. Ronnie is saying detainees threatened local men with rape of their womenfolk. Manusians are the loveliest gentle people being pushed too far! Stop the Serco/G4S gravy trains!

Mr Abbott (& Mr Hackneyed Joe)...you want to save $$$ ? - then shut the detention centres down and divert the $ saved on paying contractors back into the Health System not the diseased and run down corpse that calls itself Healthcare here. But of course like Op Resolute, you will stand firm Herr Fuhrer, pushing back the boats with your bare hands, if needed. Meanwhile the electronic whorehouse gives us our daily dose of McMurdoch Happy Meals, & guides the ship of fools onto yet another reef.

Pasim Manus island centre em i bagarup pinis bilong govmnen bilong Australia.

Just as Hitler thought he was morally correct in 1933, thus did 20 million Jews and others go to their incarcerations, deaths, and tortured memories... just as Howard thought he was correct and now too Abbott.

Semantics, ideologies, and when the truth if it ever does come out, then cast your votes in accordance at the next election.