Refugee Update

[dreamer_easy]

The big news of the last couple of weeks is that both the previous Labor and the current Coalition governments have paid bribes to people smugglers. In the Coalition's case, those bribes were paid to smugglers to take their passengers back to Indonesia in two boats provided by Australia - a "suicide mission".

The bribes, totalling $US31,000, may

Comments

[mrteufel]

I think bribing smugglers for intelligence is about as defensible as any other bribing of a criminal element for information.

Bribing smugglers to return refugees is far worse. Of course, nuance is dead in Australia.

[hnpcc]

A lot of things are currently dead or dying in Australia at present.

I'm still in a state of sort of bemused shock that this government's apparent means of "breaking the people smuggler model" was in fact to make it even more profitable. I mean seriously, every time I think they cannot get worse...