Nah, I think people can see this for what it is - a stupid/naive individual making a total tit of themsevles.
You mean like every Politician ever???
Well yeah, fact is you actually need money to immigrate, even illegally. They had to pay their way to Australia somehow.
The way they pay for it is that what they are carrying on their backs and in their hands is all that they have left to their name, they sold almost everything they had to get onto those leaky boats. As much as I am getting tired of hearing about "Another Boat arrives" on the news here in Australia, I just wish that someone would just try and shut down the actual source of these problems where they start. The actual Traffickers themselves. But that's a pipedream there. At least let the people know they have only a 15% chance of actually getting into Australia. 45% alive on a boat that didn't sink...
Also, those camps are quite literally concentration camps. As in, place where you concentrate people you don't want outside. Sure, the situation there is better than in Nazi camps, but the analogy is valid. It's not like they compared it to extermination camps, which are another business.
As much as I hate what concentration camps are and how we are handling them, sadly there is little choice. Too many are coming over in such numbers that it takes a long time to successfully process them for all possible problems. Infections, Monetary *usually nothing* and other things of the like...
Someone who is sick has a really low chance of surviving if left to their own devices, if they entered illegally, they can't just pop down to the doctors for some medicine, so they get worse and worse before dying or such. Those with no money actually have little chance of actually getting any foothold even if they do make it onto Australian Soil, they would end up as Homeless people, begging on the street. Australia just like many other countries, can't even keep up with our OWN homeless citizens, throwing in illegal folk into the mix makes it even harder to keep a hold on what we are trying to do to fix it to begin with...
Its the hardest thing to work with these Boats and Illegal Immigration making it a nightmare for our Politicians and Parties to bring in methods that can help either Aid or Hinder these people from getting in. Camps are sadly the only option atm cause, where do you put the people who you can't help yet???