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September 11th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda LEGISLATION will be rushed into Parliament to allow the federal government to resurrect its failed attempt to send asylum seekers to Malaysia.
Although the Greens are opposed to offshore processing, the government may win the support of the independents with Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott saying they would wait to see the details of the new policy before making a decision.
The support of the independents alone, however, would not be enough to get the legislation through the Parliament.
A return to the ”Pacific solution” has been ruled out after the government said it would cost more than $1 billion to send people to Nauru.
“We know that Nauru won’t work and now we know it’s expensive as well, despite bold claims by the opposition that it would be cheaper than the government’s Malaysia transfer arrangement,” the Minister for Immigration, Chris Bowen, said yesterday.
Mr Bowen said the cost of sending people to Nauru would be $980 million over four years with more money needed for infrastructure.
A special meeting of the cabinet and Labor caucus will be held tomorrow to discuss the government’s new policy on asylum seekers after the High Court found its original Malaysian plan was unlawful.
A fresh attempt to send asylum seekers to Malaysia is unlikely to be rejected by the caucus although some MPs would still prefer people to be processed in Australia.
The Attorney-General, Robert McClelland, said legislation would be drawn up to allow the government to send asylum seekers to any destination named by the Minister for Immigration, including Malaysia.
”We believe an amendment can be crafted that essentially gives, if you like, a stronger discretion to the Minister to determine the appropriate destination for offshore processing,” Mr McClelland said.
”We believe an amendment is appropriate. Obviously the cabinet and caucus have to consider these issues but, yes, we believe that an amendment is desirable to put offshore processing beyond doubt. We think that should be done.”
Resurrecting the Malaysia option is also an attempt by the government to shift attention to the opposition’s position whose support it may need to pass the legislation.
The Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, maintains he would only side with the government if it decided to send asylum seekers to Nauru and Manus Island, not Malaysia.
His immigration spokesman, Scott Morrison, yesterday dismissed the Minister’s costing of sending asylum seekers to Nauru as a ”back of the envelope assertion”.
”Nauru and Manus Island together cost $289 million over six months on their figures. The Minister said so when he shut them down. He’s just trying to dump on Nauru to distract from the fact that his policy no longer exists,” he said.
New legislation covering asylum seekers will add to a busy week for the government which will introduce the carbon tax legislation on Tuesday.
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