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pascalo in reply to @Light_EDDed

Probably because they love the cruelties administered by the Australian government so much. Some inhumane "offshore solution" to "stop the boats" is right from that play book. Never mind the financial and human cost.

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atz in reply to @pascalo

Also, once you can "stop the boats" by deporting people to a country that is potentially as bad as the one they left or shoving them on an island you can use the whole thing as a political football to beat the other side with.

Either getting it for allowing the cruelty (we wouldn't do that sort of thing if we were in power) or not being cruel enough (how dare you release those permanently locked up prisoners due to a supreme court ruling).

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pascalo in reply to @atz

Prudent observers will note there are no more people offshore at Nauru or Christmas Island. The cost to the taxpayer of all of this was astronomical with very questionable benefits.
The only people that benefited were the fat cats running the private contracting companies that ran the camps.

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