The Pacific Solution is just People Trafficking

Chicken Arthur Brain removes what scares him and tries to buff his way through yet again writing:

If that is your reasoning then please keep on holding your breath.

Just keep on holding your breath. Australian citizens can break Australian law, and people inside Australian territory can break Australian law; not foreigners outside Australia. It is called jurisdiction. Are you mentally retarded ?

The convention covers anyone who is a genuine refugee, which is what Hunter and everyone else including YOU were writing about: To quote your earlier comment: "If we dump them all on small islands, and they are genuine refugees - they will be excceedingly grateful."

Second, although you tried to confuse the issue by bringing in a different subject of "Pakistanis". The fact is that Hunter was referring to the Howard wasting millions of dollars to have the RAAF fly 43 Papuans out to the middle of the Indian Ocean in violation of the spirit if not the letter of the international conventions which generations of Australians have been proud to live with.

Third, although the ALP and then Howard decided to use Article 9 of the Convention to create detention camps, "Article 9. - Provisional measures Nothing in this Convention shall prevent a Contracting State, in time of war or other grave and exceptional circumstances, from taking provisionally measures which it considers to be essential to the national security in the case of a particular person, pending a determination by the Contracting State that that person is in fact a refugee and that the continuance of such measures is necessary in his case in the interests of national security."

- - the fact is that very few Australians feel we are at a time of war or in danger of invasion, or that we are at war with Indonesia which would justify putting the 43 Papuans into detention in the first place.; Let alone keeping the 43rd Papuan in detention gaol when he has been determined to be a genuine refugee.