I am wondering how the neocon Gestapo will cope with the possible influx of millions of asylum seekers now that Manus and Nauru is closed to them.
With the current ethnic cleansing in Myanmar and the flight of the Rohingas to Bangladesh the pressure is going to mount in this area.
India has built a wall/fence to keep Bangladeshis out and even the Calcutta region of India is going to go under water eventually.
Bangladesh only needs a cyclone Irma, to submerge it and there are millions there who will be on the move to escape inundation.
Somehow I don't think that Dutton and his navy will be able to stem the flow.
Added to that there will be a flood of Pacific Islanders looking for dry land.
It will make the migration to Europe of Africans and Syrians look like a trickle.

It doesn't take many 50 Cal rounds to sink a wooden or even steel boat.

Eliminate the first few, & no more follow.

I suspect the millions in refugee camps elsewhere might not appreciate queue jumpers

Hi Robert,

Yes, 65 million refugees around the world, plus a million Rohingya now, plus maybe a million people now utterly destitute in the eastern Caribbean thanks to Irma.

Yes, of course, Australia (and NZ too) have a moral duty to take some Rohingya refugees, people who are destitute with nowhere to go - just as Australia did under Abbott in relation to Syrians, when we took twelve thousand and NZ took seventy. Maybe we should take another twelve thousand and NZ another seventy Rohingya ?

By the way, if Dutton is in charge of a neocon Gestapo, and India builds a wall against Bangla Desh, what does that make Modi ? What will you be calling Dutton if he decides to take more Rohingya than, say, Indonesia or Malaysia ?

Cheers,

Joe

Runner, has an excellent point!

Hasbeen thinks just sink such people at sea but that is a recipe for war!

Law and order come from Christian Principles!

Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition.