I don't understand when there's excess capacity at mainland detention centers, why there's a need to take these asylum seekers as far away as possible from the best legal teams. |
If the reports today have any validity, then you've got to say somebody who had the job for Saddam Hussein of chasing dissidents falls on the dangerous side of the equation. |
Jobs should be advertised in Australia before anybody even thinks of handing opportunities overseas. |
They can't come after us. There's no way. |
This is a system driven by political image rather than genuine safeguards. |
We don't know how many of those people are Australian citizens, we don't know how much longer than three weeks they were detained. |
We're talking about extraordinary amounts of money simply for a public relations exercise. |