It was the Gillard / Rudd Government that believed Manus was the solution and Abbott carried it on by taking refugees from Christmas Island to PNG.

If you are naive enough to believe Amnesty International then you probably believe in Santa Claus.
I don't dispute the fact that violence, rioting and mayhem are occurring on Manus Island,however if people choose to behave in this way then it is the duty of the relevant policing forces to react and if this means violent resolutions then so be it.
Rightly or wrongly these people are in legal custody. They must behave or be made to do so.
The alternate is ask to be repatriated. I am sure the government will agree.
The bottom line is that this is New Guinea and not Australia and Australian laws have no weight.
I do believe that the use of a hired security labor force (SERCO) who are nothing more than mercenaries incognitos does nothing for the Australian Image and I imagine some of the New Guinea police remember SERCO ( under another name) from a previous life.
Full marks to the New Guinea police. We should be giving them new Glock .50s.

Albie,
Interesting post.
My own view is Australia should not buy/bribe these poorer nations into taking on a problem that belongs to Australia.
It is a cop out.
Take the politics out of the problem, place it in the hands of professionals. Surely there are people in Oz who have the wherewithal to find a lasting solution.
Australia needs to man up, it is our problem, not Narus or that of New Guineas nor that of any other impoverished nation. We are buying a short term solution, a poor one, we surely have the ability to do better than that.
Get the pollies and the bleeding hearts out of it for starters.
SD

The Manus Island's police commander Alex N'Drasal has blasted the Abbott government's running of the detention centre.
Abbott needs to come clean on the roll of the private firm G4S security is playing. As the Australian government contractor being paid to supply security, G4S seems to be over stepping the mark, taking the law into their own hands so to speak. Morrison is now saying 50 more security people from Wilson's Security are on stand by to move in if there is any more trouble on the island.
Ron Knight the local MP said he believed that gun butts and batons had been used against asylum seekers by the notorious PNG "mobile squad" a paramilitary branch of the local police. Knight said the squad "had to be brutal to be effective". this paramilitary unit is of the type that beat a local man to death last year. Stationed inside the detention centre are also PNG Army and PNG Special Branch Police. It has been said these two units don't get on, they fight with each other on a regular basis, there is a lot of acrimony between them, one unit wanting to be seen as tougher than the other.
Local PNG staff are angry at their pay of $7 a day while expats are being paid $120,000/year.
The local community is angry at the location of the detention centre and there is evidence that locals were involved in Monday nights disturbance.
Seems Mr Abbott you have a lot of angry hot heads on Manus Island. What are you going to do about it? Turn a blind eye as the powder keg explodes!

Paul1405 has a point. I think Manus is not sufficiently, what is the
word ?, I don't want to put the locals down, but in a society where
payback is just about accepted as normal, is not the place for a
sophisticated problem like this.

Nauru is different it has had a hundred years of dealing with the
outside world with their phosphate rock industry.

There must be an island somewhere that Australia can buy, put the
detainees onto it and tell them this is yours goodbye !

At the rate of 288 million / day of borrowed money going on our debt. Malaysia would have solved the problem years ago.