http://theconversation.com/boat-people-economics-101-exposing-the-flawed-logic-of-asylum-seeker-poli...

19 December 2012, 3.00pm AESTBoat people economics 101: exposing the flawed logic of asylum seeker policy

It is against the International Maritime Law  

I listened to an interview with the doctor involved in this. He looked shallow and spoke with such sadness in his voice. How extremely sad for him not to have the correct treatment available to treat these ill children. He begged for oxygen to be delivered for a dying patient ...none was forth coming. He eventually woke the administrator from the hospital and begged for some 😞

It's horrible TS.It's clear that if they are to be there more money must be spent.

Australian Human Rights Commission president Gillian Triggs has not been to either Manus Island or Nauru.

She says the solicitor-general told her she has no jurisdiction outside Australia.

"This is a curious phenomenon," Ms Trigg told Four Corners.

"What is absolutely crystal clear as a matter of international law is that Australia is responsible for the lives and wellbeing and legal rights of these people, and as human rights law is at the core of my job, I would have thought it appropriate that I be invited to go there and to make some kind of visit to the people concerned."

no jurisdiction outside Australia and yet we are responsible for them under International Law

keep them safe and then send them home when things have improved in their homeland. 

But they usually don't have anything to go back to - no home, no land, no money. Sometimes no family. Sometimes even their entire village has gone.

We'd be holding these people for an awfully long time if we waited for 'improvements'.