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

So 579, correct me if I'm wrong, but are you actually suggesting that the il treatment of fellow humans is fine, so long as we are not involved.

Great!

Butch you have a habit of answering your own questions. Can it be any worse than what is happening right now.

What Australia, and indeed the rest of the world has to come up with is a long term workable solution to the plight of refugees. In the context of a world problem, Australia so far has been relatively untouched.
No one, and certainly not I, are advocating an open door policy, such a policy would create more problems than it would solve. The solutions attempted thus far, although having some degree of political success seem doomed to long term failure.
The PNG solution is not working and will not work. In a rather conceited manner Australia thought the use of money would appeal overwhelmingly to a very poor nation like PNG and our problem would become their problem. Not so, realistically PNG is poorly equipped to deal with the problem of refugees. No matter how much we would like to make it PNG's problem, Australia is still responsible, and illconceived, short term, stop gap political solutions won't work in Australia, and certainly they won't work in PNG. We need to stop the political game and adopt a constructive bipartisan approach, if we are to get any degree of success with the refugee problem, long term. The problems of refugees are systemic to the world as a whole and won't go away in the short term and can only grow larger.

http://www.un.org/en/globalissues/refugees/

Yes Paul1405, unfortunately there is no real solution except to send
them back from whence they came.
When the next big crash comes, probably after 2017, but it could be
earlier, there will be no choice but to send them back.

Read between the lines of what the pollies are saying and listen to the
desperation in Joe Hockey's voice as he calls for growth.

He understands what is coming but he has still not understood that
growth is not dependant on money. If we get 20% or more unemployment
we will not be able to afford to keep the boat people here.
It will be whether we pay unemployment benefits or feed boat people.
What happens if we cannot afford to keep paying for Manus & Nauru ?

YOU DON'T HAVE THE MONEY !

Paul, these are not refugees, as the term refugee means to flee their home country to the first safe haven, Australia is not the first save haven for them.

These are illegal que jumpers and should feel lucky they are at least being provided for, might I add, most likely better than many of out own retired tax payers.

Judging by your obvious unwillingness to address my previous posts, I would suggest you are fully aware of what they are, and what caused the problem in the first place.

You (green backed labor) had six years to fix the problem you caused, so it's time to step aside, admit the failure of your green/labor alliance and let Mr Abbott and co fix their inherited mess.

And don't forget, because I will never stop reminding you that there is a very simple solution, stop catching the boats. It's called, helping ones self.

THE CURE..is worse than the problem..dare to ask why?
http://rss.infowars.com/20140220_Thu_Alex.mp3