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1. This statement is welcome, but does not go far enough.
   What is needed is, for the Churches represnted in this statement, to bring together their best peoplle along with others, and develop a better solution than the one they fear at present.
   Admonishing, warning, blaming are all inadequate responses.
   Public policy requires that we all contribute to fiding the best policy position: one that is practical but also one that is based on our commitment to the values and noble aspirations that advance the cause of all mankind.

   Posted By: Garry

2. What other reason can there be for Australia's treatment of asylum seekers other than it is xenophobic?
   And just like all other episodes of xenophobia, it ends up being the creed of alchemists.
   I'd like the media to do a story on just who is behind the xenopobia, the alchemy, who is making the money out of this human trafficking - and spare me the nonsense about the people smugglers. They're just the vultures, but who is at the other end of the food chain?
   What Australia must do about the asylum seeker issue is allow an ordered clearing out of the refugee camps in Indonesia, negotiating with Indonesia and other countries in the area just how many per month each will grant citizenship to.
   Surely, for the money that the human trafficking industry is getting now, Australia could grant citizenship - and thus make them contributors to the economy, of say 3000-4000 per month until all those wretched camps of misery are cleared.

   Posted By: Fr Mick Mac Andrew

3. This statement troubles me a lot.
   I think that the signatories to the statement do not seem to have taken into consideration the lives of asylum seekers lost at sea and the fact that this right to life is the utmost human rights consideration.
   It beggars belief that more than 600 deaths at sea on route to Australia has not been addressed.
   Accordingly, it appears that the signatories are more wedded to ideology than humanitarian welfare. Personally I believe that the situation devised by principled people such as refugee advocate Paris Aristotle and Michael L'Estrange (whose brother is Jesuit) is the 'least worst' situation available.
   

   Posted By: Neil

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