I’ve copied a few of the verbatims below. I’ve also uploaded two Leximancer dashboard reports that I thought you might find interesting. They are Do you support PNG solution? and Will PNG solution work?
It is a mere election ploy - indeed, number 3 election ploy on this subject. So many people seem to believe Rudd despite him being so obvious.
Neither PNG or Rudd have the capacity to bed this down properly. The cost will be astronomical and the boats will keep coming.
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There is no quick fix or any easy answer to this one but I'm certain that you don't solve serious problems, especially of this magnitude, by hiving it off to another country - especially PNG, one of the poorest countries in the region and one beset by massive social and economic problems of its own.
In the first place, it's not been passed in parliament yet, and I expect it to be opposed by both the Greens and the Coalition. Secondly, no policy announced and implemented by Labor in recent years has been without problems, caused by failure to fully develop programmes before announcing them.
Same as above, too costly, PNG hasn't the infrastructure or social structure, and it will be a new people-smuggling jump-off point to Qld. Plus, they won't send women/children to PNG, or people with health problems, so we will have to support them here.
Don't believe that the PNG Christian culture will be able to assimilate other cultures into their society without there being massive further problems occurring. How will they afford all these new immigrants?
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