Stop the boats,forever
Do not bring the economic refugees held offshore here ever
Send those who arrive here home ASAP
but Explain to me why we need offshore detention
Tell me why the Malaysian solution would not just have stopped the boats, forever, but to refugees arriving in those countries the boats leave from
Pockets full of money to pay criminals to bring them here
Stop too wasting our money and find a home for or return every one held in offshore detention
Cruel?
To Que jumpers?
Never

Refugees are costly to settle. Many have language difficulties; many are low-skilled, bring culturally-clashing values, and remain a drain on taxpayers and public services. Yet political points are often scored on the “virtue” of bringing in more refugees. Tellingly, refugees are usually settled outside of the enclaves of their enthusiastic supporters.

Outside of refugees; immigrants more generally, including those brought in on work visas, have become an easy means for business to hire cheap labour rather than go through the challenge of hiring and training homegrown labour. Growth in real wages, particularly at the lower end, has been miserly at best over recent decades. There is no mystery. That’s what happens when migrants flood the labour market.

Belly don't you realise there is a standing offer to repatriate all gate crashers held on detention free of charge any time they agree to go.

The only thing holding them in detention is their desire to get onto our welfare system, & nothing else.

Hasbeen REMEMBER my thoughts here are shared by many Labor true believers
Yes agree, with every word
My Party must confront this truth
Is in part, in fact those calling for their entry are the biggest contributors to this cruelty
Even smuggling phones and written scripts to them
Selling false hope, keeping them locked up
We differ on our intake of true refugees
We Should continue to take at least the present numbers
BUT pick them,importing poverty is not the answer
Pick those who can make a life work not divide us, welcome them
But stop the waste of offshore detention, find them a home if that is the place they left so be it

Dear Belly,

Bill Shorten made it quite clear that Labor
supported offshore processing and boat turnbacks.

He said that Labor was also for pursuing regional
resettlement and would accept New Zealand's offer
as well as the number of Australian Federal Police
officers to disrupt people smuggling would be
tripled.

Dear Hasbeen,

You wtire;

"The only thing holding them in detention is their desire to get onto our welfare system, & nothing else."

Pigs arse old cock. That garbage might run well in the Mens Shed but nothing could be further from the truth. The refugees I deal with are among the hardest working people I know. One who is a qualified doctor in his own country has worked in a meat processing plant for the last 5 years. He is very grateful for the chance this country has given him but he and his wife certainly aren't bludgers.

Go pick on someone else.