Talk:PNG solution

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The contents of the PNG solution page were merged into Pacific Solution#Papua New Guinea on 26 April 2020. For the contribution history and old versions of the merged article please see its history.

Is "the name given to [the] Australian government policy" officially "PNG solution" or "Papua New Guinea solution"? Do we have a direct reference for the official name? I'm not a big fan of excessive use of acronyms and my feeling is that the country name should probably be spelled out here for the article title - unless the official policy name uses the acronym. If the official name is the acronym, then the lead sentence should list it first. (Ie the lead sentence should list the article title first, and alternative name second.) Mitch Ames (talk) 08:37, 26 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Actually I haven't seen it called 'the Papua New Guinea solution' anywhere. In the media it's almost exclusively called 'the PNG solution', but not so much in an official capacity (it's official name is the Regional Resettlement Agreement between Australia and Papua New Guinea, but I haven't seen any media describe it as this). I could edit the header to include the official title, but the 'Papua New Guinea solution' term is pretty redundant, save for implying what PNG stands for in this context. Heptachord (talk) 09:03, 26 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

EDIT: just changed the header to include the official name Heptachord (talk) 01:21, 27 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I initially started this article to clear my head of all this policy stuff, hoping that it would make me less angry about the policy by staying true to the facts and accurate citations, but it's just made me more angry and annoyed, so I'm stopping updating this article for my own sanity (and because I'm likely to bias the article further). It's mostly up to date as of around 25 July, though it's missing a few things before then, such as the Nauru prison riot (one news source here: 125 asylum seekers charged over Nauru riot which caused $60m worth of damage) and the Java boat tragedy, the allegations of rape and torture at Manus Island (as leaked onto SBS's Dateline). From after then, things to include would be Abbott's Sovereign Borders plan, first implementation as of August 1, and more. Good luck to anyone who wants to take it up! Heptachord (talk) 12:59, 2 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It is probably good to let it go. Come back in six months when you can gain a better perspective of the situation. The federal election would of occurred, the effects of the PNG solution will have been speculated upon and asylum trends analysed. We don't want to cover every detail like a news organisation anyway. - Shiftchange (talk) 13:14, 2 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I can see, this article could quite easily appear as a section in Pacific Solution. There's already a multiplicity of articles relating to asylum seekers and Australia, which keep getting out of date and out of sync with each other, and I don't really see any value in the stand-alone PNG solution article. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 05:44, 3 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]