 A bipartisan approach to respecting the dignity of asylum seekers would mean never playing politics with the funerals of asylum seekers. No longer talking about illegals engaged in a peaceful invasion, not deploying the language of human rights and the service of a purely partisan agenda and not making tear-choked over-my-dead body declarations and then dropping the issue when your side wins power. The asylum-seeker debate should be founded on the bedrock of bipartisan respect for refugees. Over the past two decades we've taken large strides in this direction with Indigenous Australians and it ought not be beyond us to do the same for refugees. Australia can and Australia should take more asylum seekers and even after we've done so, there will still be a small proportion of our total migrant intake.