The AGE argues that Australias refugee solution is not for Mr Turnbull to fall into line with Mr Trump to keep him sweet but to bring the refugees to Australia while setting up proper processing facilities throughout the region.
Mr Trump, who repeatedly targeted Muslims throughout his bombastic campaign, has temporarily banned people from Iraq, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Somalia and Sudan.
Leadership is about asking one simple question - is this right?
National leaders including French President Francois Hollande, British Prime Minister Theresa May, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have spoken out against the ban. Why? Because they asked the question: "Is this right?"
And so it is more than disappointing that Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Foreign Minister Julie Bishop are cravenly endorsing such a stupid, unfounded policy.
It is reasonable to suspect they have sold out their principles in the fear that were they to join the international chorus of condemnation, the volatile and thin-skinned US President would renege on his nation's agreement, given by his predecessor, to accept some of the refugees who have been in Australia's offshore detention centres on Nauru and Papua New Guinea's Manus Island.
The solution is not for our Prime Minister to fall into line with Mr Trump to keep him sweet. The solution is to bring the refugees to Australia, while setting up, in partnership with our neighbours, proper processing facilities throughout the region.
