What do you think of the High Court ruling on the Malaysia swap?

The federal government's asylum seeker policy is in tatters after the High Court scuttled Prime Minister Julia Gillard's Malaysian people-swap deal. After hearing a challenge to the controversial policy brought by refugee lawyers on behalf of two asylum seekers, the court ruled the plan unlawful, saying that a country must be bound by international or domestic law to provide protection for asylum seekers to qualify as an appropriate destination under the law. What do you think of the decision?

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