Asylum immigrants - Green Light

[drsmith]

Gillard does not want it to work so she can turn on the opposition and say I told you so.

I suspect it's more to keep their Green bed partners happy and in the longer term to swell the ranks of the Left.

 

[DB008]

This should be ringing alarm bells with the public!

ASIO visa bans rejected

MORE than 50 refugees judged to be a risk to national security by ASIO may be released from indefinite detention after the High Court yesterday struck down the regulation that prevented them being granted protection visas.

The refugees are also poised to win the right to challenge their adverse assessments following the landmark decision on the case of a 36-year-old Tamil refugee from Sri Lanka.

David Manne, who launched the action on the man's behalf, yesterday appealed to the government to promptly release his client, who has been in detention for almost three years and is suffering from depression, as well as other asylum seekers in the same situation.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/polit...ns-rejected-20121005-274ra.html#ixzz28TVPPYZA

 

[Julia]

I doubt this will be allowed to be a problem for long. The Opposition has already indicated a willingness to work with the government to change the legislation. It will be raised in Parliament next week.
If someone is a security risk to Australia, even though a refugee in their home country because of their terrorist activities there, surely we should not be obliged to accept them into our community?

 

[drsmith]

The Greens position on this will be interesting on this when push comes to shove. In this instance, the Opposition would clearly be wise to side with Labor regardless of what the Greens do.

Labor however have to come up with something first, and despite bluster from Nicola Roxon about the Opposition supporting possible legislative change, there's no garantee that Labor will actually put forward such change.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-10-06/government-plays-down-high-court27s-refugee-ruling/4299124

 

[drsmith]

Another boat.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...-ashmore-islands/story-fn3dxiwe-1226490657875

 

[noco]

Another boat.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...-ashmore-islands/story-fn3dxiwe-1226490657875

With all that is going on with Slipper, Gillard and Bowen must feel relieved to have the limelight taken away from both of them ATM.

 

[drsmith]

One step forward ??

The first asylum seekers will be sent to Papua New Guinea within weeks after federal parliament established the country as a regional processing hub.

Immigration Minister Chris Bowen said it was another step forward in the campaign to stop people smugglers and insisted they were getting the message about its tough new regime.

Two more boats.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8545404/two-boats-carrying-175-people-intercepted

 

[dutchie]

Yes Chris "ostrich" Bowen this policy is very successful. Keep up the good work.


http://au.news.yahoo.com/latest/a/-/latest/15068097/asylum-seekers-getting-the-message-bowen/


175 on boats near Western Australia
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...estern-australia/story-fncyva0b-1226492348093

 

[drsmith]

Another boat.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8545971/boat-carrying-nine-intercepted-off-wa

 

[drsmith]

With all that is going on with Slipper, Gillard and Bowen must feel relieved to have the limelight taken away from both of them ATM.

With all that's going on, the latest boat has even got past Andrew Bolt.

 

[sptrawler]

With all that's going on, the latest boat has even got past Andrew Bolt.

I'm not sure, that showing the real Julia, to deflect the attention from the boats was a winner.

 

[drsmith]

Another boat.

It's the 4th in two days.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8546256/navy-intercepts-two-asylum-seeker-boats

 

[drsmith]

Even the UN are getting fidgety.

A MASSIVE backlog of asylum-seekers has built up inside detention centres because processing has stopped since the Pacific Solution was reinstated and almost none of the new arrivals have been transferred to Nauru or Papua New Guinea, which are not yet ready to receive them.

The warnings from the UN and refugee advocates, who predicted a looming disaster inside the detention network, emerged as UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres concluded PNG had "neither the competence or capacity" to process transferred asylum-seekers alone.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...m-seeker-backlog/story-fn9hm1gu-1226494018323

 

[drsmith]

Another boat.

http://www.skynews.com.au/topstories/article.aspx?id=805095

 

[Julia]

Where are all these people being accommodated? Surely the detention centres must be full by now?
Are they being released directly into "community detention" before any checks have been done on them?

 

[drsmith]

Are they being released directly into "community detention" before any checks have been done on them?

Unless their being detained in school halls, that must be the case.

Either that or the current Government are getting the checks done quickly enough as they circulate through the detention system into community detention.

 

[drsmith]

Another boat.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/navy-assists-suspect-asylum-boat/story-e6frg6n6-1226494957133

 

[noco]

Where are all these people being accommodated? Surely the detention centres must be full by now?
Are they being released directly into "community detention" before any checks have been done on them?

Who knows Julia!!!! The media have been so diversified with the poltical sex rage, they have forgotten the asylum seekers saga, so we hear nothing.

This is all part of this inept Labor Goverment strategy to take your mind away from the more important issues that they have messed up like asylim seekers, the carbon dioxide tax, the economy, NBN and the rising cost of living. Gillard is now loathe to talk about these items.

It is all about point scoring to keep herself in Governemnt and Labor is watching the polls very carefully. They are doing it with personal attacks on Abbott and it is wearing very thin.

I believe the polls will have gone South by next week.

 

[DB008]

Another boat.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...-ashmore-islands/story-fn3dxiwe-1226490657875

Two more boats.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8545404/two-boats-carrying-175-people-intercepted

Another boat.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8545971/boat-carrying-nine-intercepted-off-wa

Another boat.
It's the 4th in two days.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8546256/navy-intercepts-two-asylum-seeker-boats

Another boat.
http://www.skynews.com.au/topstories/article.aspx?id=805095

I've lost count now...surely if they keep tabs on the climbing debt ceiling (updated weekly - AOFM.gov.au), they would have a department that is keeping track of the number of boas intercepted??? It's not like they are runing short of staff in Gov. departments.......

 

[sptrawler]

Who knows Julia!!!! The media have been so diversified with the poltical sex rage, they have forgotten the asylum seekers saga, so we hear nothing.

This is all part of this inept Labor Goverment strategy to take your mind away from the more important issues that they have messed up like asylim seekers, the carbon dioxide tax, the economy, NBN and the rising cost of living. Gillard is now loathe to talk about these items.

It is all about point scoring to keep herself in Governemnt and Labor is watching the polls very carefully. They are doing it with personal attacks on Abbott and it is wearing very thin.

I believe the polls will have gone South by next week.

I think you're right noco, Tony is away and Bishop is cranking up the demand for an apology.
Next week will be interesting, to see if the 'hard ass mother whatever' can explain what she is doing about actual issues.