Hi Foxy,

Good to see you are back on board again. I read the opinion piece by Max Chalmers in Newmaltida, thanks for that. Thinking people can understand what Max is saying, unfortunately the frothing at the mouth bottom dwellers, calling for drownings and airport lock ins, don't much care for such opinion, little own understand it. For those of limited thought processes the Abbott mantra of 'Stop the Boats' will suffice.
On Max's article there certainly has been a failure of governments both Labor and Liberal to formulate long term policy on refugees. The issue is a political hot potato, and the PNG ruling has once more put it firmly back onto the political agenda. Unfortunately the signs are clear, using Turbull's words the government (and Labor) does not have a road map, and I suspect wont have a strategic long term refugee policy in place pre-election, and will play politics with it, both sides pandering to the lowest common denominator, with the Coalition favored to win the votes.

Another mess left behind from The Gillard/Rudd rein of incompetence and destruction of our Australind economy

So what funding are we going to cut next to undo this mess!

It's becoming a habit, cleaning up labors mess.

Butch,

How about a comment on the Governments 'Cambodian Solution' whereby we have paid the Cambodian regime $55,000,000 to take two, yes two, asylum seekers. You will love the pic of Dutton shacking hands with Sok Phal, director of the Cambodian Interior Ministry's immigration department. Phal looks rather splendid in his military uniform, where's Dutton's

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/blow-to-australias-55-million-cambodia-deal-as-two-more-refugees-reportedly-leave-20160308-gnda8q.html

Paul,

That you compared AC to Hitler because he doesn't like illegal immigrants foisted onto the taxpayer, is very douche baggy and retarded especially as the "progressives" don't seem to care a fig about the thousands dying at sea, considering them an inconvenient wrinkle in their ideology.

That it is now illegal to detain illegal immigrants in Manus, does not make it illegal to detain them in Nauru, and now that the boats have stopped and the number of detainees has dropped since labor and the greens brought them to Aus, there is probably no further need for 2 offshore detention centres.

Hey SM,
I was thinking about whether or not Pauls comment was reasonable, given that I may have been speaking in a nationlistic dictator like manner.
But I have to agree with you that was a bit douchey, given that all I'm really doing is putting Australians and Australian taxpayers first in trying to find a solution that does accept the reality of the problems and looks to find the best and fairest solution for everyone, and he's smearing me with the person commonly considered to be the most evil man in history.

I liked Bazz's earlier comment, pointing out that the lefties are worse than any rightist around here.

As for the reguees-
Firstly, I don't want the government throwing tax dollars away.
Secondly, I don't want people drowning at sea or being locked up inhumanely as that only gives them cause to resent us
- In that order.

Personally, I'd probably seriously consider moving the processing onshore.
It just costs taxpayers too much to try to do it elsewhere.
Our politicians act like they're down on our knees begging other nations to help and the other nations are just going to see us coming and screw us for all they can get.
Take the $55million Paul spoke of.
But this in no way means that I support any of the people rejected getting another chance at residency.
I'm sure they we're rejected for good reasons, and no means no.

They say the government doesn't know what to do with these people when they've been rejected.
I imagine that once they're rejected and with their future unknown that they would become disenfranchised and hostile.
Maybe just as much as we need to figure out what to do with the rejects, those rejects need to know whats going to happen to themselves as well, lest they harm others and keep making us look bad... just thoughts.

Well Armchair and Shadow, you can be lobbed in with Bazz, since you both prefer to bemoan me for giving out the Hitler tag, yet make no comment on your other team member, JayB's, despicable call for Australia to not only sanction, but to also finance, the murder by drowning of innocent men, women and children. You conservatives are a sensitive bunch when it comes to yourselves, but rather gleeful when it comes to the fate of hapless others, you would be quite content to see innocent people disappear forever, providing no one like me offends your rather delicate sensibilities about it. Sorry fellas, but you have another thing coming!

p/s What is your Plan B when the bodies start washing up in Darwin Harbour? Bury them on Nauru.