"we can, if we try, find a middle way"

I agree. Everyone should just agree with me. In fact if everyone just agreed with my middle way then everything would be just super-duper.

But I suspect that Belly thinks that if everyone just agreed with his middle way then everything would be just fine.

And therein lies the problem. There is no agreement as to where the middle way is.

Diversity is our strength...as long as we all think the same. </sarc>

it is no easy thing for me to say, but enough voters demand boat people both stop coming and are never settled here
Too [sorry but remain convinced] war is only one reason they come, financial reason drives many
And fact is their country's are over populated eg can not produce enough food water land for a descent life
Worse [good caps lock is working]the western world is heading in a similar direction to us
Soon refugees will be turned back always, see reason foe Brexet
So while other subjects will get a run here why not reconsider the Malaysian solution, world wide
Pay another country to let us, maybe the worlds refugees there
Take our refugee intake from there but not those who came here, and got sent within days to that country
Know after several thousand arrived there, wasted their money, the flow would stop
As it would have under the Malaysian solution
Too ending the refugee flow/Criminal transporting, would let us give more aid helping make a better life
Continued

As truth remains truth those kind hearts [some times just idiot trouble makers] who tell offshore detainees to sit tight the government will give in ignore truth
They inflict as much pain on them as any one
Voters drive this issue
Yes it hurts knowing some of them would be great here
But in the end we humans are about to be swamped with something every bit as controversial as climate change
Over population
And that is starting now for parts of the world
Do we gain anything by transferring the problem from other country's to here
A middle path can work, in this case must, why not try it

Jb said;
or be forcibly returned to their own Country.

And therein is the rub. They threw their passports away and deny their
nationality. Their countries won't accept them undocumented.
I would put them on a military aircraft land on a runway in their
country and push out, and take off quickly.
The governments language experts know where they are from as they even
have regional Arabic accents.

Bazz quite true and a difficulty we can over come
The Malaysian solution, suggested as a world wide solution
Part of doing that deal could involve legislation in both country's, to house those types too in the country that agrees to take them
That, a hopeless life behind wires, would see no more passports thrown away
PS
World wide agreement life in prison for people smugglers

Hi Belly,

Politics is the art of the possible, the notion of unilateral agreement by all on all issues is unrealistic in a democracy. On the question of refugees there are many points of contention, offshore processing just being one. Look at the opinions of the conservative and far right posters on this forum on the subject, it would be impossible for me to agree with any of their vitriol when it comes to refugees.
What I will say is no politician, from all sides of politics, over the decade can honestly say they have handled the issue of refugees all that well.