Just watched Q&A on tape. As has been mentioned above, I'm surprised that the media haven't latched on (screaming) to Bowen's tacit admission that the Malaysians have insisted that none of the 800 asylum seekers Australia is to send there to swap for the 4000 already there will be allowed to be admitted to a public hospital and none who are children will be allowed to enter a Malaysian school.
Nor will the Malaysians provide accommodation for the 800.
In short, despite our taking 4000 for the 800 our government will send there, these 800 will be on the Australian taxpayers' teat for the whole time they remain in Malaysia - and "protected" by some Australian protection documentation to boot.
Which makes their being put "at the end of the queue" as punishment more a punishment for the long suffering Australian taxpayer than for the asylum seekers.
At least Bowen had the good grace to look extremely uncomfortable as he sprouted the ALP "company line" about "destroying the people smugglers' business model".
This mob really couldn't organise a punch up on pay night.