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June 27th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda A group of federal MPs has finished a meeting to discuss ways to break the impasse between the government and the opposition over ways to deter asylum seekers from making dangerous sea voyages to Australia.
Independent MP Tony Windsor says a communique will be released later on Wednesday by the group, which includes coalition and Labor parliamentarians.
Mr Windsor did not reveal details but says the aim is to put pressure on the party leaders over asylum seeker policy.
“People in this building want a resolution and they want their leaders to work towards a solution,” he told reporters in Parliament House.
He also said a small group would be set up out of Wednesday’s meeting of 41 MPs to seek progress on the issue.
“Parallel to that our group will maintain contact and work on some of the strategic and technical issues,” he added.
Mr Windsor said there was goodwill in the room when the MPs meet.
Liberal MP Judi Moylan said finding a solution required the goodwill of everyone.
“We need to be looking at a greater regional approach to this,” she said.
“There may be some shorter-term measures that might stop people from putting their lives at risk.”
She said some MPs thought an urgent bill should be introduced to deal with the immediate issue while others were focused on a longer-term approach.
Asked whether she believed Opposition Leader Tony Abbott would come on board, Ms Moylan said all MPs should work together “to find an enduring way forward in the interests of people who are suffering terribly”.
Nationals MP Tony Crook said the meeting was productive but there was no quick fix.
“If we look for a quick fix we are only going to do ourselves a disservice,” he said.
A government bill to legitimise a people-swap deal with Malaysia is stalled in the lower house as Labor and the coalition bicker over a solution.
The government, in a compromise deal, has offered to reopen a detention centre on Nauru and conduct an independent review of temporary protection visas.
The opposition says the Malaysia deal is not acceptable.
Foreign Minister Bob Carr praised the coalition MPs involved in the meeting.
“I’m enormously impressed by the courage of the coalition people who’ve gone along to this,” he told Sky News.
“How decent that is, to buck the authority of their party leader and say, on grounds of simple humanity, we want to talk to the government about this.”
But Senator Carr also took aim at the Greens’ continued opposition to all offshore processing, which he said was a necessary disincentive to stop dangerous boat journeys.
“The Green party policy is actually extremely inhumane and extremely cruel.”
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