grahammac says he will support the greens because they offer the only humane process - onshore processing.
What grahammac ignores is the fact that those arriving here are gueue jumpers who could not be bothered going through the right process of making their way to the nearest safe border and apply for asylum via the correct channels.
Once asylum seekers are processed onshore by the greens, I guarantee that many more will end up being granted asylum and further, this will be at the expense of asylum seekers who are doing the right thing by going through the correct channels.
Here's a suggestion.
On the basis that Australia is likely to be pumping billions into PNG over the unforeseen future in assisting them to manage this process and also in general aid, maybe PNG should become the no 1 choice of destination for international Asylum Seekers. Each member of the UN should pay PNG $billions and in return, PNG can build a state of the art processing facility (aka a city) capable of housing millions of refugees.
What a great industry this could become for PNG - earn billions, if not trillions and turn their country into a processing facility.
Forget the fine print - send Rudd and the Greens over to manage the process humanely.
