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While the fury over Gillard's lie and carbon tax lie boils on, another boat quietly slips into Australian waters. Obviously nothing has been learned from the last disaster including a little boy left orphaned. Smugglers and their high paying passengers seem to think it is all worth the risk. Word must be getting around that Aussie taxpayers foot the bill for everything if you can get there in one piece. Never need to worry about money again...:
From Perth Now:
Boat with more than 100 people intercepted north of Ashmore Islands
THE Christmas Island detention centre will soon be closed to new arrivals as the Immigration Department continues to ship asylum-seekers to already overflowing mainland centres.
How I lost faith in multiculturalism
But in the nearly 15 years we lived there the suburb changed, and much for the worse.
Three dynamics interacted in a noxious fashion: the growth of a macho, misogynist culture among young men that often found expression in extremely violent crime; a pervasive atmosphere of anti-social behaviour in the streets; and the simultaneous growth of Islamist extremism and jihadi culture.
Greg Sheridan in today's Australian reports on the unfortunate reality of Muslim immigration worth a read.
This is not a sign that I agree in anyway with most of the views expressed in this thread.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...multiculturalism/story-fn59niix-1226031793805
Haven't heard it put this way before, but it's a great analogy.
I bought a bird feeder. I hung it on my back patio and filled it with seed. What a beauty of a bird feeder it is as I filled it lovingly with seed. Within a week we had hundreds of birds taking advantage of the continuous flow of free and easily accessible food.
But then the birds started building nests in the boards of the patio, above the table, and next to the barbecue.
Then came the shyte. It was everywhere: on the patio tile, the chairs, the table - everywhere!
Then some of the birds turned mean. They would dive bomb me and try to peck me even though I had fed them out of my own pocket.
And other birds were boisterous and loud. They sat on the feeder and squawked and screamed at all hours of the day and night and demanded that I fill it when it got low on food.
After a while, I couldn't even sit in my own back garden anymore. So I took down the bird feeder and in three days the birds were gone. I cleaned up their mess and took down the many nests they had built all over the patio.
Soon, the back yard was like it used to be ..... Quiet, serene and no one demanding their rights to a free meal.
Now let's see: Our government gives out free food, subsidized housing, free medical care, and free education. It also allows anyone born here to be an automatic citizen.
Then the illegals came by the tens of thousands.
Suddenly our taxes went up to pay for free services; small apartments are housing 5 families; you have to wait 6 hours to be seen by an emergency room doctor; your child's 2nd grade class is behind other schools because over half the class doesn't speak English.
Corn Flakes now come in a bilingual box; I have to 'press one' to hear my bank talk to me in English, and people waving flags other than our Flag are squawking and screaming in the streets, demanding more rights and liberties.
Just my opinion, but maybe it's time for the government to take down the bird feeder. If not, continue cleaning up the Shyte!
The group had flown from Afghanistan to Jakarta, travelled by bus to Madura island to "take a big boat to Australia", Hidayat said
As usual they had no ID so it raises the question how they found the money to get to Indonesia and, more interestingly, how did they fly from Afghanistan to Jakarta without passports or any sort of ID?
That's an easy one. They destroyed their passports after they got to Jakarta.
THE first group of asylum-seekers taken directly to Christmas Island since last month's riots has again pushed the number of detainees on the remote territory past 1800.
In today's Australian:
"Legal aid for crews tops $4m
MORE than $4 million in taxpayer-funded legal aid will be provided to the crew members of asylum-seeker boats who are on trial in Australia this year on people-smuggling charges."
When is this madness going to end??????
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