As I said before, sour grapes won't help.So those lying bastards were lying about the reason for the cancellation of the Indonesia visit.
The reason given reflects the political reality between Australia and Indonesia given the underlying problems Labor's border protections policies in government created, for both countries.Interesting to see your tolerance of dishonesty from politicians seems to depend on whether it's the libs or labor.
As it turned out, a bright orange lifeboat wasn't required and it seems crew and passengers were sent back in their own boat with a few extras.
According to an account given to Indonesia’s navy, the crew said two Australian warships put three extra people on board their boat before they were escorted to Indonesian waters.
They say they were in Australian waters on May 1 while taking 18 asylum seekers from India and Nepal towards Ashmore Reef and were escorted back to Indonesian territory a day later.
The Indonesian Navy on Monday night released a statement saying it had found a group of asylum seekers — 16 Indians, two Nepalese and two Albanians.
The group told naval officers they had left from South Sulawesi on April 26 without the two Albanians.
They say they were met by two Australian vessels near Ashmore Reef on Thursday.
They were escorted to Indonesian territory where on Sunday, the Albanians and one Indonesian got on board, and the Australian vessels parted ways with them.
Their boat ran out of fuel and became stranded on Lay Island in East Nusa Tenggara where the Indonesian naval officers found them.
Most are men aged in their 20s, the officers say.
The Fairfax press though is still having a lot of trouble coming to terms with the success of this government's border protection policies. Despite the above, the following this morning is the top story on the SMH's online front page.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/why-t...-big-chill-with-indonesia-20140505-zr4zy.html
A spokesman for the Indonesian Co-ordinating Minister for Legal, Political and Security Affairs, Djoko Suyanto, said on Tuesday that 20 asylum seekers turned back on one boat on Monday actually came from two different vessels discovered by Australian authorities in the same waters at a similar time.
They are the eighth and ninth boats confirmed to have been returned under Operation Sovereign Borders.
The spokesman, Agus Barnas, said Australian navy or Customs vessels had intercepted both boats, combined the two groups, put them back on the wooden boat of the larger group and pushed them back to Indonesia.
Greens leader Christine Milne says she is shocked by the reports.
She says if they are true, it would be in complete contravention of international law.
"These are really serious breaches of not only international law but of appropriate process," she said.
"My question is: is this something Scott Morrison directed his department to do, is this something Tony Abbott knew about?"
Poor Marty.
After the success of our government's policies in stopping the boats with such little help from Indonesia itself, he's been left to sell whatever he can to his domestic audience.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-...-extra-passengers-serious-development/5434540
They have to have something to do.Interesting that the ABC said the trip was called off because of the asylum seeker issue.
But the Government says it was due to the nearness of the budget.
Obviously the ABC has an intimate understanding of Government decisions.
20 weeks without a successful people smuggling operation to Australia.
Another 9 IMA's were voluntarily returned to their country of origin after electing to go home from an offshore processing centre. This takes that total to 236 since the commencement of OSB.
http://newsroom.customs.gov.au/channels/operational-updates/releases/operational-update-9-may
And still they attempt to come; Knowing that their fate at our hands, is to be shipped off to a Cannibal Island gulag with no human rights no justice and be kept at the hands of the merciless, murderous thugs of our employ.
Hats off Australia you've solved the problem..... In the very very small minds of some.
2:54pm: The government is not spending all its dixers directly on the budget, however.
We have had one to Scott Morrison on the result of Australia's "strong border protection policies".
This gives the Immigration Minister to chance to note that for the last 20 weeks there has not been a "single successful maritime people smuggling venture to Australia".
(Note the very long description here.)
This does, however, lead Morrison to observe that all this Operation Sovereign Border success will save $2.5 billion for the budget.
The Cambodian government is in the final stages of considering a refugee resettlement agreement with Australia and wants to sign a memorandum of understanding as soon as possible.
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