Re Andrew Wilkie's sunset clause: I'm not quite sure, but I think it means the legislation - if it passes - will have to be reconsidered in 12 months time.
Probably moot, as it's unlikely to get through the Senate. The Greens are doing as they did with the original ETS legislation and saying "nothing is better than any amendment to what we want". Entirely in character with their unrealistic stance in everything.
The government and the opposition could vote together in the Senate which would have the welcome effect of making the Greens irrelevant. Hard to imagine this happening, at least at this stage.
A ship carrying survivors is expected to go to Christmas Island. It will take about 12 hours to make the journey.
There is no way the Opposition will support this bill in the senate as it is, and neither they should.The government and the opposition could vote together in the Senate which would have the welcome effect of making the Greens irrelevant. Hard to imagine this happening, at least at this stage.
It's better to force the Greens to openly show their true colours if they want to hold on to the power they currently enjoy.
Gillard is a contemptible, manipulating, calculating failure and a nasty piece of work to boot.
They were probably as genuine as those Joe Hockey choked back when expressing his outrage about 13 year olds being sent to Malaysia. Plenty of cant and hypocrisy to go round, it seems.What a sight.Sarah Hanson-Young cries crocodile tears in the senate.
They were probably as genuine as those Joe Hockey choked back when expressing his outrage about 13 year olds being sent to Malaysia. Plenty of cant and hypocrisy to go round, it seems.
Much to do with politics and little to do with policy imo.
This is the boat that sank yesterday, causing the emergency debate on boat people laws. One person died, three are missing.
But wait.
Check the photograph.
When it was taken from what’s plainly a ship, given the elevation, the boat was not just afloat, but comfortably so. How did it suddenly come to sink, with lives lost, with a ship right alongside? Did the ship move away before the sinking? Or was the boat scuttled, with the ship alongside?
Very curious.
How dumb is Bowen,
...
The problem started with Kevin Rudd and continues to this day....
What on earth does that silly slogan have to do with the present situation?Gee 30 years ago I had a tee- shirt with "When the last Kiwi leaves NZ, will somebody turn off the lights."
printed across the front.
(iv) establish a multi-party committee, charged with developing a framework for a long-term regional solution which is underpinned by the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the related 1967 Protocol
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