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You've got to be kidding!?!
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.
That pathetic lawyer and firm, Shine Lawyers, should be red carded.
That pathetic lawyer and firm, Shine Lawyers, should be red carded.
. The Australian public could be forgiven for assuming that this stems from a secret support of these actions.
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.
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 agree SirRumpole. So maybe we should start being restrictive of who we let into this country.
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 ?
WikipediaIn the UK, between 2001 and 2009, the Muslim population increased roughly 10 times faster than the rest of the population.[31]
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 ?
Boats :36
Passengers: 1632
Drownings: 47
Boats per 100 days: 12.72
Drownings per 1000 passengers: 28.8
Another report on the above boat,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
“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.”
The other, carrying about 50 passengers, had been intercepted by the Australian Customs vessel Triton between Christmas Island and Java.
Something's happened,Another report on the above boat,
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...enies-refugees-in-trouble-20140628-zspal.html
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.
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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