Is this the most hypocritical and stupid idea of our time?
Dangle a carrot under the guise of being humane attracting thousands towards our shore - for the purpose of winning votes.
Then try to pay another country to do the said 'inhumane' work of keeping them away
Indonesia would be offended by the notion they should stop the boat people when it is Rudd's and now Gillard's policies that have caused this problem to exist.
Revisiting the Indonesia solution and utterly failing stands as testament to the failings and illogical thinking of the Rudd/Gillard government.
Now they are in so deep they are trying to mimic in East Timor the Nauru solution that they chastised because returning to the already set up and cheaper Nauru would be to admit failure.
As a result this mess just keeps getting bigger (like a lot of Labour fiddling) and hundreds of millions more of our dollars are wasted to keep Gillard looking good on the matter.
And to think this man Rudd now runs around the world still thinking he knows better on all foreign matters and is armed with billions to spend coupled with no or little accountability how.