Asylum immigrants - Green Light

[noco]

No unauthorised boat arrivals today or yesterday.

http://www.jasonclare.com.au/media/portfolio-releases/home-affairs-and-justice-releases.html

They have probably all sunk before they got to Christmas Island.

That is $120,000 per head we will save.

 

[drsmith]

No unauthorised boat arrivals today or yesterday.

http://www.jasonclare.com.au/media/portfolio-releases/home-affairs-and-justice-releases.html

Two days without a boat I suppose would be regarded as an achievement by Labor, but even that's not the case.

Read the post of mine above yours and you'll know where to look.

 

[sails]

Still coming:

Boat with 49 asylum seekers located at Cocos (Keeling) Islands

Labor might be trying to convince us that Abbott will not be able to stop the boats, but the influx suggests the boat people themselves are trying to get here before the gates are shut.

 

[drsmith]

13 boats in the past week carrying 927 passangers. This compares to 3 boats carrying 149 passengers for the same period last year.

19 April 2013 Customs and Border Protection and the Australian Federal Police intercept vessel
19 April 2013 Border Protection Command assists vessel
18 April 2013 Border Protection Command intercepts vessel
18 April 2013 Border Protection Command assists vessel
17 April 2013 Border Protection Command assists vessel
17 April 2013 Customs and Border Protection and the Australian Federal Police intercept vessel
15 April 2013 Border Protection Command assists vessel
15 April 2013 Border Protection Command assists vessel
14/04/2013 Border Protection Command intercepts vessels
13/04/2013 Border Protection Command assists vessels
13/04/2013 Border Protection Command intercepts vessel

18/04/2012 Border Protection Command intercepts vessel
14/04/2012 Border Protection Command intercepts vessel
13/04/2012 Border Protection Command intercepts vessel

http://www.customs.gov.au/site/media-releases-2013.asp
http://www.jasonclare.com.au/media/portfolio-releases/home-affairs-and-justice-releases.html

 

[So_Cynical]

13 boats in the past week carrying 927 passangers. This compares to 3 boats carrying 149 passengers for the same period last year.

I'm curious Doc, when do you think this will become an important enough issue for the noalition to take some action?

 

[dutchie]

I'm curious Doc, when do you think this will become an important enough issue for the noalition to take some action?

Your posts are sooo funny So_Cynical.

We all know the answer is September 15th, 2013. Come on, get with the program.

Pst..... when they are actually in power (unlike this sham of current incompetents).

 

[sails]

Your posts are sooo funny So_Cynical.

We all know the answer is September 15th, 2013. Come on, get with the program.

Pst..... when they are actually in power (unlike this sham of current incompetents).

I think SC is wanting the coalition to agree to the malaysian whatever (not a solution, imo). I'm pretty sure that the coalition have said they will support a full return to the Pacific Solution which has a good history of working. But then would this government ever fully implement anything that actually worked!

More to the point, Labor is in government with the greens - what are they going to do about it?

 

[drsmith]

The fundamental truth that Labor and its partners in government command a majority in both houses remains.

The current problem is largely a product of the Greens parasitic relationship with Labor. That's a relationship Labor is only too happy to maintain for an extra 5-minutes in office because the financial blood is being drawn from the taxpayer.

 

[sptrawler]

Didn't the greens want to just place the asylum seekers straight into the community?

Maybe Bob Brown can choose one of these for $50 a week. Actually I wonder how many asylum seekers he has taken into his house? Come to that how many is Milne fostering.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/newshome/16811290/alert-on-criminal-boat-people/

 

[drsmith]

Contracts for the immigration department reach $8bn.

A long list of companies including charter airlines, hire firms and blue-chip transport companies entered into, or held, contracts with the department last year. Across all its operations, the department had contracts worth more than $8 billion last year.

The largest beneficiary was Serco, which holds $1.8 billion in contracts to run Australia's detention centres.

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/polit...er-industry-20130420-2i72s.html#ixzz2R3p6n3lG

EDIT:

http://www.michaelsmithnews.com/201...ontracts-for-2012-a-very-important-story.html

 

[dutchie]

Contracts for the immigration department reach $8bn.



http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/polit...er-industry-20130420-2i72s.html#ixzz2R3p6n3lG

Plus probably another $6bn costs of government departments involved.

What a waste. Would have gone a long way in paying for all of Gonski and NDIS.

 

[drsmith]

11 boats in the past week carrying 915 passangers. This compares to 1 boat carrying 50 passengers for the same period last year.

26/04/2013 Border Protection Command intercepts vessel
26/04/2013 Border Protection Command assists vessels
25 April 2013 Border Protection Command assists vessel
25 April 2013 Border Protection Command intercepts vessel
24 April 2013 Border Protection Command intercepts vessel
24 April 2013 Customs and Border Protection intercepts vessel
22 April 2013 Border Protection Command intercepts vessels
20 April 2013 Border Protection Command intercepts vessel
*19 April 2013 Border Protection Command assists vessel

* Wasn't listed when I did last week's tally.

26/04/2012 Border Protection Command intercepts vessel

http://www.customs.gov.au/site/media-releases-2013.asp
http://www.jasonclare.com.au/media/portfolio-releases/home-affairs-and-justice-releases.html

 

[drsmith]

Over 3000 arrivals on 41 boats so far this month,

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/...ts/boat_people_arrivals_now_hit_3000_a_month/

 

[drsmith]

9 boats in the past week carrying 950 passengers. Of those 9 boats, 4 carried over 100 passengers each and the 3 that were intercepted yesterday carried a total of 497 passengers.

This compares to 3 boats carrying 251 passengers for the same period last year.

03/05/2013 Border Protection Command assists vessel
03/05/2013 Border Protection Command assists vessel
03/05/2013 Border Protection Command intercepts vessel
01/05/2013 Border Protection Command intercepts vessel
01/05/2013 Border Protection Command assists vessel
01/05/2013 Customs and Border Protection and the Australian Federal Police intercept vessel
30/04/2013 Border Protection Command assists vessel
29/04/2013 Border Protection Command intercepts vessel
29/04/2013 Border Protection Command intercepts vessel

30/04/2012 Border Protection Command intercepts vessel
29/04/2012 Border Protection Command intercepts vessel
27/04/2012 Border Protection Command intercepts vessel

http://www.jasonclare.com.au/media/portfolio-releases/home-affairs-and-justice-releases.html

 

[So_Cynical]

9 boats in the past week carrying 950 passengers. Of those 9 boats, 4 carried over 100 passengers each and the 3 that were intercepted yesterday carried a total of 497 passengers.

This compares to 3 boats carrying 251 passengers for the same period last year.





http://www.jasonclare.com.au/media/portfolio-releases/home-affairs-and-justice-releases.html

I'm curious Doc, when do you think this will become an important enough issue for the noalition to take some action?

Or is there no political advantage to be had in saving Afgan children from a water grave? the opposite of opposing or being seen to be delaying the NDIS?

 

[sptrawler]

I'm curious Doc, when do you think this will become an important enough issue for the noalition to take some action?

Or is there no political advantage to be had in saving Afgan children from a water grave? the opposite of opposing or being seen to be delaying the NDIS?

I suppose we will see the coalitions action after September, untill then we will just have to wear labors stupidity.

Also as many Afgan children will cram themselves onto boats as possible, while the labor governments open border policy is in place.

Funny how labor come up with NDIS and Gonski, just before they are thrown out of office.
Prior to this it was the MRRT tax to pay for super(fail)
The carbon tax ,to shut down brown coal burning power stations and build a massive solar power station in outback NSW.lol (fail)

Don't you ever get embarrassed trying to talk up the goon show.

All we've got from labor is increased population on welfare, increased debt, increased taxes and a domestic economy in paralysis.
Priceless, just priceless.

 

[drsmith]

I'm curious Doc, when do you think this will become an important enough issue for the noalition to take some action?

Or is there no political advantage to be had in saving Afgan children from a water grave? the opposite of opposing or being seen to be delaying the NDIS?

When they can, and that'll be when they are in office.

This has been a shocking evolution of policy failure and negligence by both the Rudd and Gillard governments that just gets worse under their watch.

This level of failure and the Labor attitude towards it is only highlighted by your post above and in particular, your reference to drowning children.

 

[drsmith]

Not a good start to this week.

5 boats carrying another 383 passengers in the past 3 days.

 

[sptrawler]

Yes doc, I saw this today in the newspapers.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...entre-capacities/story-fncyva0b-1226636283801

Apparently nearly 900 allready in May, I wonder how long it will be before there will be enough asylum seekers to start a political party.lol

 

[YMI]

While I agree that the huge amount of asylum seeker arrivals causes immense costs, I also try to imagine how desperate these people must be to leave everything behind, probably pay everything they have to some criminals who tell them that (in this case) Australia is the land of milk and honey and go aboard a floating wreck which gives them at best a 50% chance to arrive safely just to try to escape whatever it is that threatens their life in their home countries.

Risking all that without knowing exactly where you are going that’s a kind of Russian roulette. And that reminds me how lucky I am that despite my life isn’t worth more than any other, I am welcome in any country.

I just wonder, why do they say ‘arrivals since Labor came to power’? Wouldn’t it be the same number if Liberal was at power or any other party?

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/immigration/smugglers-cram-more-women-kids-on-to-boats/story-fn9hm1gu-1226637230708