The Gillard Government

[DB008]

Greece/Spain/USA/U.K/Japan
Even Lower interest rates

and l'm guessing, probably highest wages in the world?

Sorry, confusing post.

There are lower interest rates around the world than here in Oz and our wages would also have to be one of the highest in the world.
Where can a University Graduate go and get a job paying $150+ first year out of uni, yeah, straight to the mines. Meanwhile, there are engineers in the USA with 10-15 ++ years experience getting $100k, if they are lucky.....hmm, makes you wonder...

 

[bunyip]

Sent to me by one of my email mates.

All of us (including those misguided people who continue to support Labor) know that when Rudd, Gillard, Swan and their mates disbanded Howards’ ‘Pacific Solution’ and replaced it with their pathetically stupid and unworkable policy, they set in motion a chain of events that created probably the biggest shemozzle in Australian political history.
Below is some inside information provided by a member or the AFP that shows just what’s been going on in this debacle, quite apart from the colossal waste of money.

If you’re undecided as to who to vote for at the next election, this issue alone – Labors’ pathetic stupidity and incompetence in their handling of the illegal boat people issue – should be enough to convince any reasonable and responsible person that we have to get rid of this government at the next election.

The Land of Bloody Idiots!!! Please forward this.

THE REAL TRUTH ABOUT THE BOAT PEOPLE - (From Inspector [???] AFP)

We all have had discussion of the boat people at some time or another. Most of us can't understand why the Australian Labor government continues to pay for these illegals whilst hard working Australians continue to suffer the brunt of taxes, levies and tolls to help pay for the government's mis-spending.

Well the time has come for the truth, I am asking everyone of you to spread this as far as you can and eventually it will end up with someone who might be able to do something about it.

According to this Australian Federal Police Officer, who obviously will never be named, here are some of the facts you all should be aware of.

[1] Currently the Federal Police are not producing as many drug busts due to the millions of dollars of their budget being put into intercepting illegal boat people

[2] When the boat sank last year off Christmas Island, the Australian authorities were throwing life jackets to the children

and the adults were swimming to where the life jackets were pushing the children under the water and taking the life jackets to save themselves.

[3] When the boat people arrive here, they have already printed out from the net their rights

and have a list of welfare benefits that they demand from the Australian Government.

[4] Whilst in detention they tell the guards that they are here to serve them and the Federal Police have already investigated a number of assaults on detention staff resulting from them "not respecting" the detainees.

So in other words when a guard doesn't respect or serve these illegal boat people to their satisfaction, they believe it's fine to backhand them to gain a little more respect.

[5] After spending around 6-9 months in detention, the illegal boat people have approximately $10 000 saved in welfare payments

from the Australian Government.

They then send the money home and arrange for the next family member to come out on a boat.

So this means we are actually paying for the flood of illegal boat people through the welfare payments provided to them.

[6] The boat people are all given mobile phones and allowed to phone where ever in the world they please.

The reported cost of the combined telephone bills for the first quarter of this year was $5,000,000.

Yes, you read correctly, 5 million dollars, all care of us - the tax payer.

[7] Residents and the Federal Police on Christmas Island only have dial-up internet which we all know is impracticable in today's internet age.

Yet all the detainees have broadband internet care of the tax payer yet again.

These are all facts that simply can't be spoken about by those who know.

Well the time has come Australia to say enough is enough.

Please ensure that you spread this as wide as you possibly can.

 

[Julia]

A grumpy old man who sees his influence fading.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-08-16/windsor-launches-attack-on-abbott/4203518?WT.svl=news0



While not in the related ABC commentary, Tony Windsor states in the above speech that he never asked Tony Abbott as as whether he would support a carbon tax to claim office. He also admits that a carbon price was a pre-condition of forming government.

Clearly, he had no intentention whatsoever of siding with the Coalition.

No, he didn't and never would. That he even went through the pretence of seeming to consider with whom to side was a total farce. The sooner he retires or loses his seat, the better. For someone so on about integrity, he has precious little himself.

Re Bunyip's post: it is not illegal to seek asylum, so to refer to the boat people as 'illegals' is just not correct.
I won't comment on the rest of it.

 

[drsmith]

For someone so on about integrity, he has precious little himself.

Indeed.

It's a bit hard to walk away from something that was a pre-condition for government.

The New England independent, whose vote will be critical to any legislation passing the House of Representatives, said he was prepared to walk away from the whole process if necessary.

''The Greens want to be very careful about where they are going on this or they won't see anything in the Senate,'' he told the Herald yesterday.

http://www.smh.com.au/environment/c...lans-if-greens-go-too-far-20110227-1ba0w.html

 

[bunyip]

Re Bunyip's post: it is not illegal to seek asylum, so to refer to the boat people as 'illegals' is just not correct.
I won't comment on the rest of it.

Happy to be corrected if I’m wrong, but as far as I know they’re entering Australian waters illegally rather than applying through the legal channels to come to our country.
And they're employing criminals (people smugglers) to bring them here.....that's illegal too as far as I know.

 

[McLovin]

Happy to be corrected if I’m wrong, but as far as I know they’re entering Australian waters illegally rather than applying through the legal channels to come to our country.
And they're employing criminals (people smugglers) to bring them here.....that's illegal too as far as I know.

It's not illegal to enter Australian waters/airports/ports/space stations etc in order to claim asylum. An illegal immigrant is a non-citizen who is living in Australia without a valid or correct visa or PR. Plenty of illegal immigrants in Bondi, Coogee and Manly.

 

[bunyip]

I think you all should leave Australia conditions are terrible


What are they again.......


Low Inflation
Low unemployment
Low interest rates
Low debt to GDP


Of course Abbott will improve all that.....wont he.......Hockey is a genius.....isn't he?

Your post appears to imply that this government is doing a wonderful job.

Yet in post 3995 you described the government as 'politically incompetent'.

So which are they in your opinion? Are they wonderful or are they incompetent?

 

[So_Cynical]

Sent to me by one of my email mates.

All of us (including those misguided people who continue to support Labor) know that when Rudd, Gillard, Swan and their mates disbanded Howards’ ‘Pacific Solution’ and replaced it with their pathetically stupid and unworkable policy, they set in motion a chain of events that created probably the biggest shemozzle in Australian political history.
Below is some inside information provided by a member or the AFP that shows just what’s been going on in this debacle, quite apart from the colossal waste of money.



Please ensure that you spread this as wide as you possibly can.

What a total crock.

Chain emails straight from Liberal party headquarters...oh please.

 

[joea]

A grumpy old man who sees his influence fading.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-08-...anything new. Go back to sleep Tony!!! joea

 

[dutchie]

Go back to sleep Tony!!!
joea

LOL

 

[dutchie]

 

[dutchie]

He has finally realized that his electorate may dump him.
So immediately attacks the party targeting him.
Well that's human nature I suppose.
He could not come up with anything new.
Go back to sleep Tony!!!
joea

TW - is as irrelevant now as he was when he cheated his electorate to support this pathetic government.

He is as useful as a lawn mower in Santorini.

 

[sails]

It's not illegal to enter Australian waters/airports/ports/space stations etc in order to claim asylum. An illegal immigrant is a non-citizen who is living in Australia without a valid or correct visa or PR. Plenty of illegal immigrants in Bondi, Coogee and Manly.

But it is illegal to lie to Australian authorities to claim welfare benefits no matter who you are.

Why should non refugee boat people who ditch their ID and then fraudulently claim welfare and not be prosecuted (eg Captain Emad) and yet Aussies are?

 

[Julia]

What a total crock.

Chain emails straight from Liberal party headquarters...oh please.

The Liberal Party would never issue something like that.
Don't be ridiculous.

 

[McLovin]

But it is illegal to lie to Australian authorities to claim welfare benefits no matter who you are.

Why should non refugee boat people who ditch their ID and then fraudulently claim welfare and not be prosecuted (eg Captain Emad) and yet Aussies are?

I neither know the answer nor care particularly much about it. I was just pointing out that there is a difference between unlawful and illegal.

 

[Glen48]

401k is being drained in USA and now full of IOU's, once OZ runs out of money will the Feds in power here at the time do the same?


http://www.realecontv.com/page/11840.html

 

[Ves]

The Liberal Party would never issue something like that.
Don't be ridiculous.

I am sure one of their die-hard sympathisers (with no party links) would though. Propaganda is reality in this day and age.

 

[McLovin]

I am sure one of their die-hard sympathisers (with no party links) would though. Propaganda is reality in this day and age.

Funnily enough, the AFP also doesn't have a rank of "Inspector". Innocent mistake, I'm sure.

I'm just waiting for the "boat people eat babies" bumper stickers.

 

[sptrawler]

I am sure one of their die-hard sympathisers (with no party links) would though. Propaganda is reality in this day and age.

It certainly is, remember the P.M adviser and the tent city fiasco. Also the P.M dept admitting rumaging around trying to find issues that can be used for propaganda against the opposition.

 

[DB008]

Interesting....

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/capital-wages-still-highest-growing-fastest-20120816-24ac0.html