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Crikey readers talk Newstart, Tony Abbott the walking billboard and The Salvation Army.

Crikey readers talk sweatshop labour, The Salvation Army and the Coalition’s climate change policies.

The offshore processing of asylum seekers in Nauru and Papua New Guinea deliberately harms human beings and has no benefit other than political smoke and mirrors, argues Susan Metcalfe.

Amnesty International inspectors became the first independent assessors to visit the Nauru immigration camp this week, describing the conditions in vivid details for Crikey.

It’s the cornerstone of the expert panel report and Australia’s new asylum seeker policy, but the government still hasn’t decided what a “no advantage” principle means.

Crikey readers have their say.

The company that will manage health services, including mental health services, for detainees on Nauru is at the centre of criticisms that detainee mental health problems have been poorly handled.

In proposing to detain refugees for an extended period, the new Pacific Solution comes with a great moral cost.

Voters are divided over dramatic changes to Australia’s newspapers, but there’s strong support for a negotiated solution on asylum seekers.

It is possible to deter asylum seeker boat arrivals while meeting and exceeding our humanitarian obligations. But no one has put the policy together yet.

Crikey media wrap: Thanks to the High Court, Julia Gillard essentially has only two asylum seeker policy options: reinstate a Pacific Solution 2.0 with Tony Abbott’s help or abandon offshore processing altogether.

Over the last decade we’ve spent over $100,000 detaining each and every boat arrival.

Voters would far prefer asylum seekers to be transferred to Nauru rather than Malaysia and nearly a third don’t like either option, new polling from Essential Research reveals.

Not many people go to Nauru unless they absolutely have to, writes Tony Wheeler, founder of Lonely Planet.

Asylum seeker advocates have lashed out against Nauru’s proposal to sign the UN Convention on Refugees, saying that the tiny island nation is nowhere near ready to take on the responsibilities enshrined in the document.

Since the announcement last week to suspend assessing refugee claims for people from Afghanistan and Sri Lanka, a range of people have speculated about whether this new policy breaches the law. Does it?

ASIO says that five refugees from Oceanic Viking constitute a threat to national security. How can this be a healthy democratic country when a secret agency plays such a major role in a political debate, without even making its sources available?