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I was referring to Labor.
I was referring to Labor.I saw part of an interview with the PNG foreign minister (I think it was)... seemed to be down playing the significance of a 24 hr turnaround and any issues with only short term funding allocated in the Aus budget for the PNG plan, but emphasizing they have an intergovernmental agreement with Aus for a long term, permanent arrangement to support the facility in PNG.
This deal with PNG needs to remain secure at least for the short term, otherwise it will be a devastating blow to the deterrent effect.
From Larry Pickering...
http://pickeringpost.com/story/indons-in-for-a-shock/2065
INDONS IN FOR A SHOCK
As another boat loaded with 80 illegal immigrants arrives on Christmas Island, Indonesia’s Foreign Minister, Marty Natalegawa, says his country won't accept violations of its borders under Abbott’s plan to turn back boats. He warns the move risks damage to bilateral relations. Really Marty?
It seems that daily Indonesian violations of our borders is quite okay with Marty tho’.
Islamic arrogance has again reared its ugly head in what is approaching a long-overdue showdown with this nation and its corrupt practices.
Interim Opposition Leader Chris Bowen is right for once and, as a former overseer of this boat invasion, he should know when he said today it was an extraordinary circumstance that Natalegawa had released details of private talks with Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie bishop.
Natalegawa is clearly setting the scene for a **** fight as Bishop, Morrison and Abbott are about to invade Jakarta to bump a few heads.
Indonesia is quite happy to see Australia’s sovereign borders breached on a daily basis. Australia is not happy, and if I know Abbott, he is fully prepared to play hardball with this bunch of unscrupulous monkeys.
Indonesian boats are leaving Indonesian ports with Indonesian captains under Indonesian flags ferrying illegal immigrants to Australian shores and Indonesia claims we risk violating their borders? For Christ’s sake!
Prepare for a long overdue showdown.
We gift this corrupt nation $600 million a year in unneeded, unaccounted-for aid, we gift further millions for Islamic schools, we gift materiel and armaments, we assist with their natural disasters and receive nothing but diplomatic treachery in return.
Indonesia is a rich country with a GDP approaching that of China’s. It has the fastest growing rate of millionaires in the world and treats its poor (and Australia) with the contempt of a third world backwater.
Asians despise weakness and we have been seen as a cowering compliant neighbour under the reign of Rudd/Gillard/Rudd. That’s about to change.
Go get ‘em Tony, Australians are right behind you.
Well, those who believe that our sovereignty matters are.
I can't wait to hear what the lefties say about this one.
The Indos and the media have been very slient.
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/...pt_navy_brings_boat_people_back_to_indonesia/
Earlier today, Prime Minister Tony Abbott described tensions between the two countries over the Coalition's border protection policy as a "passing irritant".
"The last thing I would ever want to do is anything that doesn't show the fullest possible respect for Indonesia's sovereignty," he said.
"We are already at this very moment cooperating closely with the Indonesians... I don't believe that the incoming government will do anything that will put that cooperation at risk. We want to build on that."
But today Indonesia's foreign ministry issued a "correction", saying the information in the briefing note was not intended for the media, that the meeting was private, and there was no official press release.
Tony Abbott very measured and diplomatic,
The Indonesian government should have realised that if a gnome can't out stare Julie Bishop, they've got no chance.
It's good to see adults back in charge.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-27/navy-transfers-asylum-seekers-to-indonesia/4985674
I can't wait to hear what the lefties say about this one.
The Indos and the media have been very slient.
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/...pt_navy_brings_boat_people_back_to_indonesia/
AT least 20 people, mostly children, have drowned and many are missing after an Australia-bound boat carrying Middle Eastern asylum-seekers sank off Indonesia, police said tonight.
"Local people found 20 dead bodies floating in the water, most of them are children," said Warsono, a police official in Cianjur district of West Java province on Indonesia's main island of Java.
The official added that the boat was believed to have been carrying 120 people, and that 25 adults had so far been rescued alive..
Meanwhile, Australian authorities are attempting to return a second group of asylum seekers to Indonesia after rescuing them at sea.
The Australian Customs ship, ACV Triton, has been given permission to enter Indonesian waters to offload 31 asylum seekers rescued overnight.
It will be the second time since yesterday that Australian rescue authorities have returned asylum seekers to Indonesia.
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) told its Indonesian equivalent Basarnas the "preference is for a transfer at sea" to Indonesian authorities.
More blood on Rudd's hands....more loss of life at sea due his stupity.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...at-talks-urgency/story-fn9hm1gu-1226728914752
One of the passengers, a Lebanese man, had reportedly lost his pregnant wife and eight children in the disaster.
The media will be given one methodical and thorough report that they cannot twist around to make things worse than what they really are.
More blood on Rudd's hands....more loss of life at sea due his stupity.
You need to start practicing what you preach, Noco.
Obviously we don't have a full picture of what has happened (and I guess we wont get it under Abbott) but Bolt deals in deceit and half truths.
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