cods wrote on Sep 12^th, 2014 at 9:31am:


Who remember Joe Hockey's crocodile tears over the idea of sending kids to Malaysia?  Yet he's quite happy to lock them up on Manus or Nauru, despite the confirmed reports of abuse from those Gulags.   Australia should be proud that his government is carrying on the tradition of Xenophobia.   

i never got to vote for any members of the high court, so as far as i am concerned, i would value their opinions no more than those of Hamish and Andy

The High Court can bend over and lick my  gooch as far as I'm concerned. Who cares what those do-gooders think. All they'll do is relax the laws and set the  people shopping industry off again.

aquascoot wrote on Sep 12^th, 2014 at 2:04pm:



Not such a bad idea when we have the suppository of all wisdom running the country - I would also go for Hamish and Andy in preference.

jockohomo3d wrote on Sep 12^th, 2014 at 2:30pm:


This has to do with the constitution, and what the government can and cannot do. What ti cannot do is hold people indefinitely on its say-so.

Kytro wrote on Sep 13^th, 2014 at 4:41pm:


Not true.

There's nothing in any Constitution that covers these circumstances.

The government has not been keeping these people under lock-and-key for any other reason than that these asylum-seekers have not agreed to accept the decision of committees that have rejected their repeated applications.

It has been ridiculously generous of the Australian governments to allow these applicants to mount repeated appeal after appeal after appeal in an effort to wear down the authorities.

Lord Herbert wrote on Sep 13^th, 2014 at 5:03pm:


The court disagreed, the ruling was on constitutional issues, the government cannot legislate around it and continue to hold people without a judicial oversight.

The decision means the government must process people within a reasonable time, it also cannot keep people locked up simply because they can't send them back for whatever reason.

Kytro wrote on Sep 13^th, 2014 at 10:17pm:


This is good news for the people of Australia.

It means the government is being forced to return frauds back to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran without the option to keep them here indefinitely because of laziness and political funk.

If the government does release these potentially dangerous Muslims onto our streets, the ministers responsible will have to answer questions as to why they are not being shipped back to the Middle East.

And let's not hear any more of this nonsense about these Middle Eastern mendicant backwater medieval tribal nations that are the beneficiaries of billions in annual western Foreign Aid ~ refusing to accept these handful of individuals back from us every so often.

Incidentally it was on a news program: Under Labor, 20% of boat people were deemed to be cynical opportunist frauds ... while under the Liberals it is 50% who are being judged to be criminal liars.

Now, why would that be?

You don't think the differential is due to how these criminal liars are likely vote as citizens of Australia ... ?

(That's a rhetorical question).