Armchair_Politician wrote on Feb 25
th, 2013 at 2:12pm:
Bring back TPV's and we'll see what happens...
History will tell you what happens Puddle
More women & children will get on leaky boats & drown.
Quote:In this vexed debate, TPVs are almost a joy to discuss in that it is relatively easy to establish facts around them. We know from Immigration Department records the numbers of people who arrived by boat on a month-by-month basis before and after TPVs were introduced. We know they were introduced in late October 1999. We know that the numbers of boat arrivals increased in 2000 and 2001 compared with 1999.
Quote:We know that in 1999, almost all asylum seekers who came by boat were men, and there were few women and children. We know this, again because of Immigration Department records and also because the detention centres were built to accommodate mainly men; there were few family compounds. This was reported by departmental officials [2].
Quote:We also know that the demographics of asylum seekers began to change after TPVs were introduced. Gradually but inexorably, the boats started to carry more women and children, in relative and absolute terms. Three quarters of the passengers on the SIEV X were women and children.
So Puddle more women & children will drown is what will happen.