One thing that's clear in an interview between Barrie Cassidy and Scott Morrison yesterday is that Scott Morrison has done his homework.
http://www.abc.net.au/insiders/content/2012/s3828114.htm
Of the 50,000 odd arrivals that have come by boat and the 1,000 or more that have perished at sea in the attempt, it's perhaps worth considering how many deaths there would have been out of that total had none come at all by boat.
It's an interesting consideration, but not one that stands in the way of Green dogma.
I've got a big heart and I care about people from all walks of life and all corners of the globe and people turning up here by boat.....when I saw those images of women and children being 'smashed' against the rocks on Christmas Island, I said to my self we have to stop this to stop people from dying.
DrSmith, you go on as if no boats ever arrived at all under John Howard.
What annoys me is when people fiegn compassion for asylum seekers who perish at sea, when they really couldn't give a rats ars*.
Smith, your mate Ben Fordham is a classic example.
You are avoiding the point in your response. I didn't make any comparison with John Howard's policies but as you know, it was very few under his government once the Pacific Solution was in full swing.DrSmith, you go on as if no boats ever arrived at all under John Howard.
The first group of asylum seekers, including the first family group, has been sent to Nauru under Labor's new resettlement arrangement.
The Department of Immigration confirmed that the group of 14 adults and 12 children arrived on Nauru on Wednesday morning.
Another group of 40 have been sent to Manus Island. That makes about 360 out of the 3000-odd that have arrived since the commencement of the arrangement.
The more I see of the UN, the more they look like a bunch of idealistic, unrealistic fools who are out of touch with the real world.
The latest example of their stupidity comes in the form of them calling on Australia to stop the ‘cruelty’ of keeping asylum seekers in detention.
They have about as much brains as the pathetically unintelligent twits who march down the street, ranting at the top of their voices and waving placards saying ‘FREE THE REFUGEES’, and ‘REFUGEES ARE FINE BY ME’.
Neither these twits nor the twits at the UN appear to have any understanding of the immense problems that would arise from freeing refugees without first verifying who they are, where they came from, whether they have any infectious diseases, whether they’d be a security risk to Australia, and whether they really are genuine refugees.
Gathering all this information is enormously difficult and time-consuming, made even more so by the fact that many of these people arrive without papers, or deliberately destroy them before being taken off the boats.
The UN ought to butt out – they lack the intelligence and practical thinking ability to make constructive comments on the issue of illegal boat people arrivals in Australian waters.
Ben Fordham serves it up to Sarah Hanson-Young and judging by her reaction at the end, she didn't like it.
http://www.2gb.com/audioplayer/11104
On the topic of numbers, Jason Clare in a media interview has advised 300 this week (ABC radio).
DrSmith, you go on as if no boats ever arrived at all under John Howard.
What annoys me is when people fiegn compassion for asylum seekers who perish at sea, when they really couldn't give a rats ars*.
Smith, your mate Ben Fordham is a classic example.
From that interview with Sara Hanson Young, Fordham says
Spare us the crocodile tears Fordham, you are a fraud.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...nds-asylum-talks/story-fn9qr68y-1226703181078PAPUA New Guinea has suspended discussions with Australia on the resettlement of refugees, as its most senior immigration official warned that serious breaches of the asylum-seeker undertakings could "jeopardise implementation" of Kevin Rudd's offshore solution.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...nds-asylum-talks/story-fn9qr68y-1226703181078
The PNG Solution was never intended to work. It was designed to hoodwink the voter until the election. Now that the wheels have fallen off, it can join the rest of Rudd's hastily thought out, ill-conceived and hugely wasteful disasters; NBN, Pink Bats, BER etc. Rudd and Burke can now sneer on the other side of their faces.
A thick plaster is constantly having to be applied to the ever widening cracks on this one.Calliope, can you believe it. I heard Tony Bourke on Radio at 9am this morning stating that everything has been sorted out with PNG....No problem........lies........lies........and more lies.
Labor should cut...cut...cut...the lies and the BS.
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