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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/12/2897462.htm?section=justin
Asylum seekers rescued from sinking boat

The Federal Government says a group of asylum seekers has been rescued from a sinking boat in waters north-west of Australia.
The 48 people were transferred to Customs ship the Oceanic Viking yesterday afternoon.
The Government said the boat was taking on significant amounts of water south-west of Scott Reef off the West Australian coast.
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Just happened that boat was taking water when spotted.

Well, if somebody asks me I hate to be taken for a ride, but suppose we need far right Government to be able to spot the difference between being part of UN convention and organised smuggling crime.

I noticed that some countries in Europe use harder line on illegal immigration.
 
Happy said:
I noticed that some countries in Europe use harder line on illegal immigration.
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The same countries that negotiate with each other in an attempt to create a coordinated approach to people smuggling.

We can't deal with the problem on a piecemeal basis - regional cooperation is the only way forward.
 
A report in today's "Sunday Mail" says asylum seekers being accommodated at a Brisbane motel are now receiving personal training sessions.

The training sessions began on Thursday at Virginia Palms Motel's gym where a group of asylum seekers is being held.
And yesterday Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan - whose electorate includes the motel - paid a visit.

Personal trainer Brad Williams of Carpe Diem Personal Training began the three hour sessions for a group of about six men on Thursday.
"It gies them a bit of an outlet, rather than sitting around waiting to be processed through the system," Mr Williams said yesterday.
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However, Brisbane psychologist and fitness coach Kellee Waters of Fit Minds and Bodies said it was appalling that asylum seekers were being given personal fitness training.

Ms Waters - who runs weight and lifestyle management programs - said Australians with serious weight problems could not claim Medicare, unless they also had anxiety, depression or a disease.
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Jeez, what next? Fashion and hairstyling advice?
Good to know how our tax dollars are being spent.:(
 
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/06/04/2918743.htm?section=justin

Asylum seekers rescued from stricken boat

The Federal Government says a boat carrying 28 asylum seekers and two crew has been rescued by Australian border protection authorities.
It says the boat was taking on water and did not have any food or drinking water.
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It will not change until they are turned around and directed back to proper authorities for orderly processing including propper queue.

Carbon copy of all other stricken vessels, and our authorities miraculously are there to save them.

Unfortunately election will be the only time that anyboy will be allowed to have an opinion!
 
Pick them up and take them back to where they come from!.....

For goodness sake look after our own.
 
Happy said:
The Federal Government says a boat carrying 28 asylum seekers and two crew has been rescued by Australian border protection authorities.
It says the boat was taking on water and did not have any food or drinking water.
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It will not change until they are turned around and directed back to proper authorities for orderly processing including proper queue.

Carbon copy of all other stricken vessels, and our authorities miraculously are there to save them.

Unfortunately election will be the only time that anybody will be allowed to have an opinion!
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No doubt they "Pull the plug" when the Aussie ships arrive on the scene to force their rescue. And you my friend would do exactly the same.

wynsum said:
Pick them up and take them back to where they come from!.....
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One just cannot do that in the name of humanity, and you my friend should consider the boot to be on the other foot for whatever reason and the treatment you would expect as a refugee to another country.
 
Now the Vietnamese are coming again. Are they still fleeing oppression?


The one boat that’s too, too many
Andrew Bolt – Friday, July 02, 10 (07:04 am)

WITH even Vietnamese now turning up in boats, Julia Gillard has her excuse.

No, not just an excuse. Our new Prime Minister has an imperative to get tough. And, while she’s at it, could she tell her Home Affairs Minister, Brendan O’Connor, to stop telling such porkies?

Only this week did we learn that a boat detected 120km north of Broome on June 18 was actually full of Vietnamese - 28 of them, in fact.

Not that O’Connor told us this. Indeed, he pretended they may have been Afghans or Sri Lankans instead, and thus subject to a government decision three months ago to suspend refugee applications from those two nationalities.

In a press release he issued after the Vietnamese were brought on board HMAS Armidale, he twittered: “While their nationalities are yet to be confirmed, if these asylum seekers are Sri Lankans or Afghans, the processing suspension introduced by the Government on April 9, 2010 will apply.”

So how dishonest is that? By then even the most slack-jawed of sailors on the Armidale could have told at a glance that their new passengers were in fact Asian.

Even now, the Immigration Department is trying to play down the significance of Vietnamese once more arriving by boat, 35 years after the fall of Saigon. But, but, but there was a boat of Vietnamese seven years ago, too, a spokesman protested.
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http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/
 
Yep, and they've also suggested they'd be prepared to become a signatory to the UN Convention on Refugees. This would appear to remove any logical objection to Nauru on the government's part.

Stephen Smith was quite persistently questioned about this on Radio National this morning, but refused to say anything other than that the government still was "in discussions with East Timor".

They will do anything to avoid offering the opposition the opportunity of crowing that they've gone 100% back to the Howard Pacific Solution, including unnecessarily spending millions more of taxpayer funds.
 
Gillard, Rudd and the rest of the gang have always claimed that they did not actively encourage illegal immigrants to come to Australia. This is a lie. Up to 50% of Tamils fleeing to Australia have connections to the LTTE - Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eclam. This is a proscribed terrorist organisation in the US, Canada, Britain and the EU countries, but not in Australia.

This is the only reason we can claim not to have found terrorists among the illegals.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...e-ties-to-tigers/story-e6frg6nf-1225891388934
 
Julia said:
Yep, and they've also suggested they'd be prepared to become a signatory to the UN Convention on Refugees. This would appear to remove any logical objection to Nauru on the government's part.

Stephen Smith was quite persistently questioned about this on Radio National this morning, but refused to say anything other than that the government still was "in discussions with East Timor".

They will do anything to avoid offering the opposition the opportunity of crowing that they've gone 100% back to the Howard Pacific Solution, including unnecessarily spending millions more of taxpayer funds.
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If Julia Gillard has no other alternative but to use Nauru, she will have to lower her dignity and do a double back flip which she wants to avoid at all costs. She would rather waste millions more tax payers money on another site if it were possible. No doubt she wiill do her best to drag it out untill after the election.
 
What if the detainees start demanding citizenship, before they leave the detention centre?
That then puts the pressure on the government to either build more detention centres or relax immigration rules, which would then bypass the normal protocolls.
All this because they can't admit they stuffed up.
Funnily enough they think the pink batts was a success, the school building gravy train was magic.
I think this is going to be a real new age for Australia.LOL
 
12,000 Greek's turned up at a seminar on migrating to Australia I read so start learning a foreign language and get s full time job with the Fed's
 
Julia said:
The following article appears in today's Courier Mail.
Asylum seekers in the community can access up to $10,000 worth of a 'welcome package' of homewares.
This is in addition to free medical and dental services.

Why can we not give these benefits to our own unemployed and homeless people????
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...000-welcome-pack/story-e6freooo-1226273251317
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Yes Julia I wonder how many pensioners that payed taxes all their lives, but grew old before supperannuation, are left alone living on cat food?
$14,000 is not much money if you are a widow renting. It is realy sad when there is more sympathy for people who pay to be smuggled in, than for our widowed mothers that struggle to make ends meet.
Jeez have we lost the plot, most of our widows lived through the war, yet are treated like second class citizens.
Yet the illegal asylum seekers make front page news, because they came through hard times. Then they complain about their airconditioned accomodation.
Most migrants came here and had to rent crappy state houses, 4 kids in a two bedroom +sleep out. They just got on with it, how stupid was that, they should have bitched and complained and sown their lips together.
Maybe if they had done that they wouldn't now be eating cat food.:eek:
Just shows if you sit on youre ar$e and bitch and complain, eventually somebody will jump up and soldier your cause.
Does that make for a country of people who try to better themselves, or a country of bludgers, that want other bludgers to make enough noise so the bludgers can sit and bitch together.
While pulling the dole, or ringing you at tea time.:D
My rant for the day.
 
Well Tony Abbott had a few words to say to the media on the "refugee policy" and the government is all over him.
Obviously the Four Corners story hit a "raw nerve".

Latest link, and sure enough Tony Jones gets a mention.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-06-09/four-corners-rejects-the-australian-article/4062208

Interesting how quick Labor can respond to some articles, but mention Craig Thompson and they 'go to ground".

The Election campaign is gathering momentum!

joea
 
These people arnt aloud to work so I hope you dont propose we realease hem into the bush to fend for themselves while they are processed ?

And I noticed there was selective quoting from that article!

You missed this

"People do not get to keep the goods. They remain in a house when a family moves out and are used by the next people who move in," he said.
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I do however think many of the goods could be supplied second hand.

Yes a waste of a few million dollars perhaps. But nothing compared to the billions Governments past and present have wasted on other pea brain schemes like First Home Buyers grants , baby bonuses , negative gearing , wars for oil etc etc
 
Julia said:
The following article appears in today's Courier Mail.
Asylum seekers in the community can access up to $10,000 worth of a 'welcome package' of homewares.
This is in addition to free medical and dental services.

Why can we not give these benefits to our own unemployed and homeless people????
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...000-welcome-pack/story-e6freooo-1226273251317
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Haha give it a rest Julia - you clearly dont like the " unemployed " or those you perceive are able to help themselves in the welfare state.

The unemployed or homeless can rock up to a hospital and get medical and dental help like anyone.

And im sure if you went to your local salvos or what ever they could deck you out with plenty of secondhand homewares for around about zip.
 

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