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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The same countries that negotiate with each other in an attempt to create a coordinated approach to people smuggling.I noticed that some countries in Europe use harder line on illegal immigration.
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.
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.
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!
Pick them up and take them back to where they come from!.....
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.
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.
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
"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.
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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