There is no simple legal way around the system of off-shore processing.
"Since March 2015, I have repeatedly requested that the Australian government facilitate my access to its off-shore processing centres," Crépeau said.
ON-SHORE PAYMENT PROCESSING REQUIRED 5.(C) In the proposed draft of the law, if international payment card companies choose not to join the NPCS, they will have to set up on-shore processing centers.
MasterCard's Head in Russia, Ilya Riaby, said MasterCard would have to "build and assess the business model of setting up on-shore processing" before it could reach a decision.
Like many Australians, they tolerated the idea of on-shore processing, justifying it as a reasonable method of sorting out who was a genuine refugee and who was not, but the moving of whole groups of people off-shore and – particularly – the recent decision to send them to Papua New Guinea was a bridge too far.
The return to off-shore processing is also costing a huge amount of money to implement.
Meanwhile, Immigration Minister Tony Burke has visited Manus Island in PNG following allegations that abuses were taking place at the off-shore processing centre on the island.
Now it is one of the poorest, and that is a central reason why successive Nauru governments have agreed to play host to Australia's off-shore processing of asylum seekers.
That's the advantage and point of off-shore processing: it's always someone else's problem.
He had been rejected twice under the off-shore processing arrangements that were found to be invalid in the recent High Court decision.
"But people make mistakes and spills happen -- not only on the rigs, but also from on-shore processing facilities, pipelines, tankers and rail cars".
