Tony Abbott for PM

[drsmith]

Labor and the effective management of asylum seekers don't belong in the same sentence.

On that score, neither do Labor and tax.

 

[Julia]

Labor and the effective management of asylum seekers don't belong in the same sentence.

On that score, neither do Labor and tax.

Or really Labor and anything at all.
Can anyone come up with a genuine exception?

 

[StumpyPhantom]

Or really Labor and anything at all.
Can anyone come up with a genuine exception?

Labor effectively managed and implemented the apology to the Stolen Generation?

Oh, but that's right, it only involved writing a speech, and no implementation other than reading it out.

They did get a kickback though in that they got to install one of their union officials in the Tent Embassy, and look how that ended up on Australia Day.

So I think I'm withdrawing this as an example of a genuine exception. Sorry for wasting your time with Labor wasting my time.

 

[sails]

Labor and the effective management of asylum seekers don't belong in the same sentence.

On that score, neither do Labor and tax.

Agree, and now this...

THE federal government will pay families up to $300 a week to temporarily house asylum seekers in their homes to help deal with the increasing flood of arrivals.

With the Immigration Department now facing a potential shortage of community housing to accommodate detainees who are being released into the community, the government has turned to householders for help.

Aussies asked to take in asylum seekers, and be paid for it

Surely Gillard could just pick up the phone to Abbott and get the Pacific Solution back up and running...

 

[StumpyPhantom]

Surely Gillard could just pick up the phone to Abbott and get the Pacific Solution back up and running...

The irony is - she doesn't need tp pick up the phone to Abbott. A stroke of the pen by Executive Government will do.

Maybe a courtesy call to the Nauruan President who has, since they were last h0oused there, signed the Refugees Convention (just to avoid another East Timor disaster).

It's pride and stubbornness which is stopping her. You would have thought after the thrashing she's been getting that this wouldn't be a factor anymore.

 

[Julia]

Agree, and now this...



Aussies asked to take in asylum seekers, and be paid for it

Surely Gillard could just pick up the phone to Abbott and get the Pacific Solution back up and running...

Such an insult to all the Australians, many of whom have paid taxes, who are unemployed or homeless and not offered any such comfort.
No doubt we will also be funding interpreting services, taxis to medical and dental care etc. The attendant costs over and above the $300 per person housed will be endless.

Are the ASF Left putting their hands up here?

 

[Knobby22]

Such an insult to all the Australians, many of whom have paid taxes, who are unemployed or homeless and not offered any such comfort.
No doubt we will also be funding interpreting services, taxis to medical and dental care etc. The attendant costs over and above the $300 per person housed will be endless.

True, however it is cheaper than running an asylum centre so I am for it, particuaely with regard to children. We have certain obligations that we have to keep for asylum seekers.

We should differentiate this policy from the failed alternative to the Pacific solution.

 

[MrBurns]

Such an insult to all the Australians, many of whom have paid taxes, who are unemployed or homeless and not offered any such comfort.
No doubt we will also be funding interpreting services, taxis to medical and dental care etc. The attendant costs over and above the $300 per person housed will be endless.

Are the ASF Left putting their hands up here?

Yes it's ironic that we have families living in cars but illegal immigrants get everything laid on.

 

[sails]

True, however it is cheaper than running an asylum centre so I am for it, particuaely with regard to children. We have certain obligations that we have to keep for asylum seekers.

We should differentiate this policy from the failed alternative to the Pacific solution.

Are you taking any, Knobby?

 

[Knobby22]

Are you taking any, Knobby?

I would if I needed the money! Like for example an older person who is unemployed and hasn't yet managed to get adequate savings.

I know a family from Ireland who has taken in an Irish footballer for Essendon because they were struggling to pay the mortgage. Good for the footballer also as it helps his homesickness.

 

[Calliope]

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I know a family from Ireland who has taken in an Irish footballer .

Tht'a a vastly different proposition from taking in someone of a different race, culture, language, standards of hygiene and attitudes to women, and want their food to be prepared according to their religious beliefs

I think it would be a bad idea for poor people to take them in. Rich Wentworth Greenies should put their hands up.

However having seen a few of them I would be happy to take in a young Somali woman for nothing.

 

[Knobby22]

Tht'a a vastly different proposition from taking in someone of a different race, culture, language, standards of hygiene and attitudes to women, and want their food to be prepared according to their religious beliefs

I think it would be a bad idea for poor people to take them in. Rich Wentworth Greenies should put their hands up.

However having seen a few of them I would be happy to take in a young Somali woman for nothing.

Yes, you are right, not a good example. It would be interesting to have the refugees and the people sharing the house mixing. It might help the refugees settle in quicker and start mixing with the general community quicker.

How are you going to tell if the Somali woman will have fat ankles since she will be probably quite thin at first?

 

[IFocus]

Sooner Abbott gets in the sooner he can clean up low unemployment, low inflation and low interest rates and get us in line with the US and Europe.

And of course that absolute mountain of debt...............

 

[Eager]

I cloud the issue because I'm interested in the outcome. Does it actually achieve it's purpose.

No.

 

[Eager]

Agree, and now this...



Aussies asked to take in asylum seekers, and be paid for it

Surely Gillard could just pick up the phone to Abbott and get the Pacific Solution back up and running...

Rednecks all over the country continually whine about the lack of assimilation from new arrivals, but continually fob it off as someone else's problem.

Get off your shiny asre and do something about it.

I certainly might.

You are just a foreigner, after all.

 

[wayneL]

You are just a foreigner, after all.

¿Que?

 

[Julia]

Rednecks all over the country continually whine about the lack of assimilation from new arrivals, but continually fob it off as someone else's problem.

Get off your shiny asre and do something about it.

I certainly might.

You are just a foreigner, after all.

For god's sake, Eager, disagree with someone by all means, but the above type of personal crudity does you no credit and absolutely doesn't advance the discussion.

 

[noco]

As some 90% of asylum seekers are Muslim and due to the fact we now have nearly 500,000 Muslims in Australia, I should imagine it would be fitting for them to billet their beloved brethren.

I wonder how many of these people will put their hands up?

Perhaps the Gillard Government should be sending out letters to all Muslims living in Australia to do their bit in the National interest.

And pigs might fly too.

 

[sails]

As some 90% of asylum seekers are Muslim and due to the fact we now have nearly 500,000 Muslims in Australia, I should imagine it would be fitting for them to billet their beloved brethren.

I wonder how many of these people will put their hands up?

Perhaps the Gillard Government should be sending out letters to all Muslims living in Australia to do their bit in the National interest.

And pigs might fly too.

And why are not Aussie homeless given the same opportunity of being placed in homes and their host receiving $300 per week while they still receive welfare?

Is this discrimination against Aussie homeless?

 

[Calliope]

For god's sake, Eager, disagree with someone by all means, but the above type of personal crudity does you no credit and absolutely doesn't advance the discussion.

And this is the guy you and Wayne accused me of insulting.:screwy: