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June 27th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Asylum seeker boats kept arriving even after former prime minister John Howard introduced his appalling Pacific Solution, Australian Greens leader Christine Milne says.
Senator Milne said Australia wouldn’t be in the mess it’s now in over asylum seekers if all the money spent on the Pacific Solution had been devoted to achieving a longterm solution.
She gave no indication the Greens would budge at all on the government’s new push for offshore processing of asylum seekers.
People kept boarding asylum seeker vessels even after former prime minister John Howard introduced his “most appalling” Pacific solution, she told ABC Television.
Billions wasted on that should have been devoted to supporting Indonesia and people in the region to appropriately process and look after asylum seekers, she said.
“We wouldn’t be in the mess that we are in today,” she said.
“The issue here is we have to determine what is our objectives and our objective ought to be to help people, to save lives, to give people safer pathways to Australia.”
Senator Milne said the only way to achieve a regional solution would be to uphold the law ourselves and to encourage others to do so.
She said the whole purpose of a refugee convention is to say that when someone seeks asylum in your country, you have an obligation to look after them.
“That is something that Australia has to come to terms with. If that’s not what people want they should be honest about it,” she said.
“We know how to save lives. And we could be out there with stronger procedures for safety of life at sea. We could be out there increasing the humanitarian intake.”
Senator Milne said the government should move to an increased humanitarian intake now that Opposition leader Tony had backed an increase.
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