On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, Peter Ross wrote:
On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, Alex Hutton wrote:
People who advocate that 'Australia' should help refugees are also playing politics. They are making themselves look humanitarian when in actual fact all they are doing is declaring how other people's money should be spent. If they really wanted to help refugees they should do something practical rather than complain that other people aren't doing enough.
Nauru, Malaysia, Christmas Island etc. are costing money as well - could I please ask the government to stop spending on my behalf?
BTW: It does not come cheap: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Solution#Australian_parliament_to_vote_... This is expected to cost $AU2 billion over four years for Nauru and $900 million for Papua New Guinea There were 6000 boat people and we spend nearly 3 billion dollars to fix the problem: Makes it half a million per head. Wow! Peter