Madeline gleeson is a senior research fellow at the kaldor centre for international refugee law. she says off shore processing isn t effective. i understand that in the uk there has been some consideration of perhaps amending the way that asylum claims are processed, and in doing so the government might look around to other countries to see what has worked elsewhere. but to have honed in on offshore processing is the policy to be adopted, like we have had in australia, is somewhat bizarre, because it did not work here. on almost every measure, it was a policy failure, and we abandoned it pretty quickly as one of our main policies. so it is concerning to see that the uk is proposing to follow suit and perhaps walk into all the same problems we saw here. but meddle in. problems we saw here. but meddle in, in problems we saw here. but meddle in, in all problems we saw here. but meddle in, in all fairness, just to look at the other perspective, what are the solutions of this case, wha