Luciferase

Would you be willing to fund your preferred solution yourself, along with anyone who agrees with you, and exempting anyone who doesn't agree?

Also, who's the "we" you are referring to, please?

JKJ,

I think it's pretty clear I want my country to pay for a more humane approach to 'stop the boats'.

I presumed I spoke for my countrymen when I said "we" did not intend that the Nauru solution would result in genuine refugees suffering, that "we" intended that they would find safety and a future on Nauru.

Obviously, from your tone and that of some others here, you never shared those intentions.

I apologise for my presumptuousness.

Luciferase: that "we" intended that they would find safety and a future on Nauru.

Wrong. That was never the intention. Why would Australia foister Islamic people onto a Christian Community against their will.

Hey Jardine K. Jardine,
I heard an interesting solution a few days ago.
That your taxes only represent the issues you supported.
A person would mark off a checklist of things they do and don't support.
And only have to pay for the issues they supported.

"..against their will"? Geez, "we" are worse than I thought.

Perhaps the reason is that "we" are not complete mugs. "We" understand that very few refugees will ever be settled in Green-voting suburbs. Perhaps I'm wrong ? Will you take a refugee family, along with all of your Green colleagues ? Such good-hearted people :)

In case you are proposing some relaxation on the flow of illegal entries, apart from the perfectly legal admission of roughly twenty five thousand refugees each year, are you suggesting that Australia should take in people who have paid exorbitant fees to come by leaky boats, and settle in Green-voting suburbs ?

Cheers,

Joe