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bunyip said:
Remember the illegal boat people who came to grief when rough weather wrecked their boats off Christmas Island (I think it was), and Australian personnel risked their lives to rescue them. Some were drowned in spite of the efforts of our people. Now the ones we rescued are suing the Australian government.
What ungrateful, shameless, disgraceful people. This is a bit like if you risked your life to pull a badly injured person from a fiery car crash, and the bastard sues you because the intensity of the flames prevented you from rescuing his wife or child as well.
Maybe we should just let them fend for themselves if this sort of situation ever arises again.
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You've got to be kidding!?!
 
No, he is not kidding, dutchie. Just unbelievable. Some of the argument offered by Geoffrey Newhouse, the lawyer who is putting up the action, is extraordinary. eg that the Australian government failed to properly maintain the vessel which capsized. Yes, really. This is apparently on the basis that if the government take control of a vessel it becomes their property.
And so on.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-06-...ue-over-2010-christmas-island-tragedy/5528270
 
dutchie said:
That pathetic lawyer and firm, Shine Lawyers, should be red carded.
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No standard is too low for lawyers to stoop to. Ditto for some of these mongrels who come uninvited to our county, and adopt the attitude that we’re their servants who are at their beck and call.
I sincerely hope the Australian government has enough sense not to grant these grubby people permanent residency in Australia.
 
6-months now without a successful people smuggling operation to Australia and more have now been sent home than have arrived since this government was sworn in.

Yippee. :D
 
Let us all be thankful that we now have a government who are taking the terrorist situation in Australia seriously.


http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opi...aware-of-jihadis/story-e6frg7bo-1226965518839

Charmaine 7 hours ago

The Labor / Green alliance during its time in power, perpetrated a gross dereliction of its most fundamental duty to Australia's citizens; the duty to do everything in its power to keep our people safe. In its moral vanity, attempting to prove it cared more than the other side, Rudd's government foolishly & recklessly decided to give a ' come on down ' signal to , well, anyone who wanted to. Of the 50,000 people who enthusiastically accepted this offer, 30,000 have been released into ' community detention' without adequate security clearance. Who knows who some of them might be ? In a tough competition to name Labor/Green's most idiotic , incompetent & potentially dangerous decision, it's hard to go past this one. Also , it is extremely disturbing to see a complete absence of public condemnation by supposedly moderate Muslims in Australia of this trend of home-grown jihadis . The Australian public could be forgiven for assuming that this stems from a secret support of these actions.
 
noco said:
. The Australian public could be forgiven for assuming that this stems from a secret support of these actions.
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That's what I and many Australians have assumed for a long time.

There is never any condemnation by so called "moderates' of the many vile actions taken by the so called 'extremists'.

We should be very scared for our children's future.
 
noco said:
Let us all be thankful that we now have a government who are taking the terrorist situation in Australia seriously.


The Australian public could be forgiven for assuming that this stems from a secret support of these actions.
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So now you are accusing Labor and the Greens of being secret jihadists ?

What a joke.

Many of the jihadists could well have come here during the periods of high regular immigration intakes during the Howard and following Rudd/Gillard governments.

At least two of the three jihadists who plotted to attack the Holsworthy army base arrived in Australia pre 2007.

I suggest you check your facts before making outrageous sweeping statements.
 
SirRumpole said:
Many of the jihadists could well have come here during the periods of high regular immigration intakes during the Howard and following Rudd/Gillard governments.

At least two of the three jihadists who plotted to attack the Holsworthy army base arrived in Australia pre 2007.
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I agree SirRumpole. So maybe we should start being restrictive of who we let into this country.
 
dutchie said:
I agree SirRumpole. So maybe we should start being restrictive of who we let into this country.
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Obviously so. It should have been done a long time ago. Just don't any applications from people living in countries where we know there is a high Muslim population. Howard was right about changing the "racial mix". Has the government got the guts to carry out that policy ?
 
SirRumpole said:
Obviously so. It should have been done a long time ago. Just don't any applications from people living in countries where we know there is a high Muslim population. Howard was right about changing the "racial mix". Has the government got the guts to carry out that policy ?
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Yes most of our jihadists are home-grown The UK has a much greater problem being one of the main recruiting grounds for ISIS terrorists.

In the UK, between 2001 and 2009, the Muslim population increased roughly 10 times faster than the rest of the population.[31]
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Wikipedia
 
SirRumpole said:
Obviously so. It should have been done a long time ago. Just don't any applications from people living in countries where we know there is a high Muslim population. Howard was right about changing the "racial mix". Has the government got the guts to carry out that policy ?
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We can't do that. Malaysia and Indonesia would cause us of of problems if we tried.
 
Fairfax has summarised boat arrival attempts since the swearing in of the Abbott Government (Sept 18) as follows,

Boats :36
Passengers: 1632
Drownings: 47
Boats per 100 days: 12.72
Drownings per 1000 passengers: 28.8
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The total of 1632 appears to include those who have been successfully turned back and those who have drowned.

http://www.smh.com.au/data-point/the-human-tide

Of those, the most recent 8 have been successfully turned back (since the last successful boat venture on Dec 19). In that time, only 2 IMA's have been accepted by Australian authorities, both on medical grounds.

The data table has the last boat attempt from Indonesia on 5-Feb-14.

http://www.smh.com.au/interactive/2013/the-human-tide/as_data/asylum_seekers_dataset.csv

This was the one where passengers were combined from two boats into one and returned to Indonesia. This was in early May and was associated with Tony Abbott cancelling a trip to Indonesia. There have been no reported boat attempts from Indonesia since.

IIRC, the number of IMA's transferred to immigration authorities since this government was sworn in is 1108.
 
drsmith said:
An asylum boat with 153 claiming to be Sri-Lankans is making the attempt, allegedly departing from India.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-06-28/asylum-boat-in-trouble-off-christmas-island/5556892
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Another report on the above boat,

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...enies-refugees-in-trouble-20140628-zspal.html

“What we are concerned about is that the Australian government will try to get a commercial boat from the area to try to pick them up,” said Rintoul. “They did that in the Indian ocean last year, but that boat was much further away from Australia than this one. They need assistance now, before it becomes an emergency.”
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drsmith said:
Another report on the above boat,

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...enies-refugees-in-trouble-20140628-zspal.html
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Something's happened,

By 1.45pm, Mr Rintoul said satellite telephone calls to the boat were not connecting and he had no way of knowing if disaster had struck.

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority was alerted about the boat on Friday and is understood to have been monitoring it today.

AMSA would not comment and a spokesman said Customs and Border Protection was handling the case.
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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...action-coalition/story-e6frg6n6-1226969722347
 
No unloading of IMA's at Christmas Island yet even though Alannah Joan Geraldine Cecilia MacTiernan's been there as the Labor welcoming committee.
 

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