You do realise that 30,000 IMA's arrived in the last year and a half of the previous government.

You do know that they use to fly to Indonesia, burn their passport and pay for a boat to take them from there to Australia

Its still a much harder journey to Australia than Europe.

My point is that the difficulty in making the journey is a major factor. So its not clear cut in deciding how much credit should be assigned to Australia's policy of overseas processing centers.