wilma commented on Andrew's question: “This is a great ideal but in the present political situation is not an urgent priority either for the parties or the community. Before this had much chance of happening we'd need a government with a stable majority ,strong responsive and inspirational leadership ,an absesce of more pressing issues as well as an expert and community- representative and consultative steering committee.”

wilma commented on Brendan's question: “I believe the Westminster parliamentary system is more flexible and responsive than a US type republic. As the Queen is now a symbolic figurehead , the change to a different head of state could be a minimalist but symbolicly important change for our multicultural society , and importantly perhaps most likely the most likely to clear the referendum hurdles. Selection of ther new head of state and clarification of the role are the issues that the last attempt ran into difficulty on. The change to a republic should not be represented as...”

wilma asked the question: “Why doesn't the government (1) publicise the successful settlement of families in the community (2)cut the costs of the refugee program by detaining all arrivals who claim refugee status only for about 1 month for preliminary checks and then complete processing while the people are in the community (3) explain the need to achieve regional agreements on refugees ( 4) explain how they might deal with people who having been found not to be refugees , then refuse to return to their country?”

wilma asked the question: “Why is it that asylum seekers who arrive by plane are processed in the community while those who come by boat are detained? What is the difference if any in their identification documents if these exist, and if plane arrivals do have documents, how are these authenticated - note that Iranian refugee advocates recently claimed plane arrivals had flaso documents?”