Our government can do whatever it likes but again how is coming by plane a 'proper channel' and by boat not one when no other signatory sees it as such? What happens when you come by plane that makes it a proper channel? UN is not at all happy with the way we interpret the charter. Why are we still signatories if we can't deliver it as intended by the UN? They should know what they meant. We take a lot of AS comparatively and we should be viewed as a great altruist nation. But it is all ruined (and a great deal of money wasted) by all this 'boat arrivals' idiocy. It is a political tool pure and simple. The only rational defence for this policy is drownings at sea. However Howard - engineer of #stoptheboats encouraged captains to avoid sinking AS vessels - Tampa. Labor have pathetically followed suit. If we signed a UN charter and they say we are doing it wrong then we should either admit that we are doing it wrong and start doing it correctly or have the nuts to back out (and of course deal with the corresponding backlash).