It just makes you sick...when there are so many people in need of help that we have to be wasting our resources on people like this...
Asylum seekers act like pirates:
AAP
The federal opposition says asylum seekers who behaved like "pirates" and demanded to be taken to Australia should be prosecuted as criminals. 
The MV Parsifal picked up 67 asylum seekers from near Java on Monday and planned to take them to its intended destination of Singapore.
But the asylum seekers reportedly became agitated and successfully demanded they be taken to Christmas Island where they were dropped off on Tuesday night.
Home Affairs Minister Jason Clare confirmed on Thursday the asylum seekers had become "very aggressive" when told they would be taken to Singapore. 
However, he said they now faced processing in Nauru, where a reconnaissance team of military and government officials was heading on Thursday morning.
"They now face the prospect, like other people who come by boat over the next few days, of ending up in Nauru," Mr Clare told Sky News.
He confirmed one asylum seeker on the vessel had fallen overboard and was believed to have died.
Opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison labelled the incident an "outrageous act" of piracy. "What we have here are pirates effectively, taking control of vessels allegedly ... using force and threats and intimidation," he told Sky News. He called for the government to immediately investigate whether police could lay criminal charges against asylum seekers involved.
"I think they should be locked up and there should be a charge sheet," Mr Morrison said. 
Meanwhile, debate continues in the Senate on the government's asylum seeker laws, which passed the lower house on Wednesday with the coalition's support.
The bill will enable the reopening of the Nauru and Papua New Guinea centres, and pave the way for a broader regional approach to the issue.
On Nauru, the reconnaissance team will produce a video which can be shown to potential boat passengers via social media and television to deter them from coming.
But Australian Greens leader Christine Milne said she doubted that film clips would work.
"They are not going to be as bad as the situation from which people are fleeing," she told reporters in Canberra.
The Greens want a 12-month time limit for processing asylum claims offshore. 
The government has yet to receive United Nations refugee agency advice on an appropriate time to process the asylum seekers, but is firm in its stance that there should be "no advantage" for those getting on boats over others who are in refugee camps awaiting an outcome.
Defence Minister Stephen Smith said a C130 aircraft, which left Canberra on Thursday morning, will land in Brisbane and pick up more members of the reconnaissance team before heading to Port Moresby.
The aircraft will then head to Manus Island and Nauru on Friday.
Mr Smith said the aim of the trip was to do a scoping study and reconnaissance, as well as establish temporary facilities.
"We are proceeding on the basis that defence will establish a temporary facility and then hand over that facility to immigration and others as soon as possible," he told ABC television.
"We think we are talking days and weeks, not weeks and months (for it to be operating)."
Mr Smith said Defence would not be playing any further role in terms of transporting asylum seekers or managing the facilities.
"My advice is this won't have adverse implications on any of our operations and we don't regard it as a role for Defence to be engaged in an ongoing way."
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