Amazing! East Timor isn’t the answer.

AUSTRALIA’S controversial plan for a refugee processing centre in East Timor was effectively taken off the agenda before last night’s opening of the Bali ministerial summit, with senior officials making it clear the proposal would not form part of the final discussions. Who actually believed it would ever happen? From the day Gillard announced the plan it was obvious that it was only intended to take the heat off her and never intended as a real solution.