Boatpeople are now turning up at the rate of about 1,000 per week and increasing.
The proposed Malaysia was going to deport about 300 as a dissincentive. The latest Nauru/ Manus solution will take about 2,000 (2 weeks worth).
The 'panel of experts' solution has clearly failed. The no advantage concept was fine but as with so many of this governments plans it was flawed in its execution.
It is agreed that there should be no advantage in arriving by boat. This was to be achieved by delaying boatpeople's release and access to citizenship. The detention time was undefined.
This idea is clearly flawed. As the left have long said there is no queue so holding people in luxury as long as they would wait in a non existant queue is nonsense.
An applicant for a refugee place in Australia has a very slim chance of success if he waited all his life. Turn up uninvited and citizenship is assured.The advantage to boatpeople is huge.
Inevitably the obvious solution will have to be adopted. I expect this will happen when we get to about 2,000 per week or larger boats of about 500 start to flood the system.
There must be no advantage in turning up uninvited. Boatpeople must be detained until safe to return to their own country, with no chance of release. All our refugees must, only, come by invitation.
