The Albanese government

[Sean K]

I don't think King Albo will get a second term if this goes on. Has Border Force been instructed to let these boats in? We have quite significant surveillance assets off the NW coast that see this 100s of kms from the coast. And, if they've sailed from Sri Lanka or Indonesia what the hell are our agents doing at the ports of these countries? Maybe ASIS has been defunded to support some global warming scare campaign.

A second group of asylum seekers has turned up at a remote outstation north of the Aboriginal community of Beagle Bay where a group of about 30 men was taken into custody by border force authorities on Friday, prompting concerns that more than one asylum boat has landed in the area in recent days and that some arrivals may still be missing or lost.

The undetected group of 13 men walked into the campsite of Pender Bay on Western Australia’s remote Dampier Peninsula on Friday afternoon. They were bailed up by the owners’ dogs. Pender Bay is about 51km by road north of Beagle Bay where the first group was given shade and water by locals at about 10am on Friday. The second group spent two hours at the camp with its Aboriginal occupants, who tried to calm them and assure them they were safe. WA Police arrived late in the afternoon.

This means the total number of asylum seekers discovered on WA’s north coast on Friday is not approximately 30 as first thought but more than 40.

 

[IFocus]

Not surprised locals in the Kimberly's have been complaining for awhile about Indonesian fishing boats in the area not intercepted probably cut spending to do the 1st down payment for the US subs to help protect the US..

 

[farmerge]

I don't think King Albo will get a second term if this goes on. Has Border Force been instructed to let these boats in? We have quite significant surveillance assets off the NW coast that see this 100s of kms from the coast. And, if they've sailed from Sri Lanka or Indonesia what the hell are our agents doing at the ports of these countries? Maybe ASIS has been defunded to support some global warming scare campaign.

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A second group of asylum seekers has turned up at a remote outstation north of the Aboriginal community of Beagle Bay where a group of about 30 men was taken into custody by border force authorities on Friday, prompting concerns that more than one asylum boat has landed in the area in recent days and that some arrivals may still be missing or lost.

The undetected group of 13 men walked into the campsite of Pender Bay on Western Australia’s remote Dampier Peninsula on Friday afternoon. They were bailed up by the owners’ dogs. Pender Bay is about 51km by road north of Beagle Bay where the first group was given shade and water by locals at about 10am on Friday. The second group spent two hours at the camp with its Aboriginal occupants, who tried to calm them and assure them they were safe. WA Police arrived late in the afternoon.

This means the total number of asylum seekers discovered on WA’s north coast on Friday is not approximately 30 as first thought but more than 40.

By crickey, this a happy snap of some very campers.
Not really a worry for airbus Albo as h is 3000 miles away. in a different country.
Rarified air and all of that.

 

[Sean K]

Not surprised locals in the Kimberly's have been complaining for awhile about Indonesian fishing boats in the area not intercepted probably cut spending to do the 1st down payment for the US subs to help protect the US..

We only have about 4 Patrol Boats so at any one time maybe 2 are at sea, but our surveillance assets in the air, space and ashore should have picked these up days ago. Someone decided to let them in, or our surveillance is crap.

I wonder how we pick up a Chinese submarine off the coast?

(To divulge too much of our 'secret' assets, they might have seen this but it was never reported so the enemy does not know we have such capability.)

 

[Sean K]

I think those voting Marles need to rewind their choice. He's a disaster.

 

[farmerge]

We only have about 4 Patrol Boats so at any one time maybe 2 are at sea, but our surveillance assets in the air, space and ashore should have picked these up days ago. Someone decided to let them in, or our surveillance is crap.

I wonder how we pick up a Chinese submarine off the coast?

(To divulge too much of our 'secret' assets, they might have seen this but it was never reported so the enemy does not know we have such capability.)

More than good luck is certainly needed in the surveillance department.

 

[SirRumpole]

So the reffos get deported to Nauru and will not see Australia again.

Problem?

 

[Dona Ferentes]

not refugees .. economic migrants with a well worn BS script and bleeding heart 'advocates'. Plus the criminality

problem ... more $$millions up in smoke.

 

[SirRumpole]

People are deluded if they think we can stop refugees coming, look at Europe and the US, and even more deluded if they think we can protect 30,000km of coastline with our resources.

People will get here occasionally, get over it.

 

[Sean K]

People are deluded if they think we can stop refugees coming, look at Europe and the US, and even more deluded if they think we can protect 30,000km of coastline with our resources.

People will get here occasionally, get over it.

Only under Labor/Greens it seems.

 

[sptrawler]

Only under Labor/Greens it seems.

They could get here under any Government, the issue is the reception they receive when they arrive, one would guess these guys will be given a complimentary tool bag and a trade certificate, so they can get to work ASAP.
Another 30 odd tax payers can't go astray, when we can't find enough workers, manna from heaven or a boat.

 

[SirRumpole]

one would guess these guys will be given a complimentary tool bag and a trade certificate, so they can get to work ASAP.

They get sent to Nauru as far as I know.

 

[sptrawler]

They get sent to Nauru as far as I know.

Seems a waste, when we are importing so many people anyway.
Sending them to Nauru, appears to just be a holding yard, until the High Court can sort their residency out.

 

[Sean K]

Another 30 odd tax payers can't go astray, when we can't find enough workers, manna from heaven or a boat.

Labor-Greens importing votes. They will probably get placed in marginal seats eventually after their holiday in Nauru.

 

[orr]

Are these few dozen off to Nauru?
What? When we have much closer the $185 million Morrison era 2019 refurbed Xmas Island gulag that's never been used.

Scott Morrison defends spending $185m reopening Christmas Island centre

PM attempts to justify reopening detention centre – which has not taken in a single refugee – by saying it is a deterrent

www.theguardian.com

 

[sptrawler]

Are these few dozen off to Nauru?
What? When we have much closer the $185 million Morrison era 2019 refurbed Xmas Island gulag that's never been used.

Scott Morrison defends spending $185m reopening Christmas Island centre

PM attempts to justify reopening detention centre – which has not taken in a single refugee – by saying it is a deterrent

www.theguardian.com

There are covid gulag centres that have never been used and detention centres allover the place, why would you send them to Nauru, sounds crazy.
With the amount of immigration going on, just check their background and give them a tool bag IMO.

 

[Sean K]

We're in a 'cost of living crisis' and a new era of 'global boiling' and 'lethal humidity' due to CO2 so where's the best place to run a cabinet meeting? As far away as possible to create as many carbon emissions as possible apparently. Three Cabinet meeting in Perth already. This is up there with the Davos hyper hypocrites flying in on private jets to complain about the weather.

Western Australia made Anthony Albanese prime minister in 2022 and will vote to keep him in office only if the Albanese government honours what economist Saul Eslake calls “the worst Australian public policy decision of the 21st century” – and predictably Labor is honouring the deal.

The politics and economics of the west as they shape the Federation get virtually no attention in the east – yet they are critical to the nation’s unity and social compact and, in recent times, pivotal to who becomes prime minister.

There is one certainty. Within the Federation the power of the west is rising. The rise has been basic to the fate of both Scott Morrison and Albanese and who governs in Canberra. During the pandemic WA premier Mark McGowan ran the politics of separation to keep his state largely Covid free and became the most popular leader in Australian history. Prime ministers were hostage to him.

Leaders change but the power realities stay the same. Last December Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced that national cabinet – the Prime Minister and premiers – had agreed on more support for the struggling National Disability Insurance Scheme with the trade-off that the federal government would continue to honour the GST distribution deal negotiated in 2018 by Morrison when he was treasurer.

That deal is primarily about the west. It is probably unprecedented in Australian history. It is driven by political power, the power of a GST deal to shape the results of WA seats in federal elections. The deal negotiated by Morrison was bipartisan; under Chalmers it remains bipartisan. It is a special arrangement that delivers huge financial support to the richest state. Neither Labor nor the Coalition like to discuss what’s happening.

That riles independent economists Eslake and Chris Richardson, who have separately reached the same conclusion and campaign against what they condemn as a disastrous public policy with no redeeming features. “This represents a transfer of almost $40bn to the government of the richest state in Australia,” Eslake tells Inquirer. “A state that is richer than the rest of Australia by a vastly larger margin than any other state has ever been, so the citizens of that state can enjoy better public services and lower levels of state taxation than the citizens of the rest of Australia.”

 

[farmerge]

People are deluded if they think we can stop refugees coming, look at Europe and the US, and even more deluded if they think we can protect 30,000km of coastline with our resources.

People will get here occasionally, get over it.

Unfortunately. And Indonesia does little to stop the export to here

 

[SirRumpole]

Unfortunately. And Indonesia does little to stop the export to here

Of course, they don't want the dregs there. Maybe we should point the boats to NZ.

 

[IFocus]

We're in a 'cost of living crisis' and a new era of 'global boiling' and 'lethal humidity' due to CO2 so where's the best place to run a cabinet meeting? As far away as possible to create as many carbon emissions as possible apparently. Three Cabinet meeting in Perth already. This is up there with the Davos hyper hypocrites flying in on private jets to complain about the weather.


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Western Australia made Anthony Albanese prime minister in 2022 and will vote to keep him in office only if the Albanese government honours what economist Saul Eslake calls “the worst Australian public policy decision of the 21st century” – and predictably Labor is honouring the deal.

The politics and economics of the west as they shape the Federation get virtually no attention in the east – yet they are critical to the nation’s unity and social compact and, in recent times, pivotal to who becomes prime minister.

There is one certainty. Within the Federation the power of the west is rising. The rise has been basic to the fate of both Scott Morrison and Albanese and who governs in Canberra. During the pandemic WA premier Mark McGowan ran the politics of separation to keep his state largely Covid free and became the most popular leader in Australian history. Prime ministers were hostage to him.

Leaders change but the power realities stay the same. Last December Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced that national cabinet – the Prime Minister and premiers – had agreed on more support for the struggling National Disability Insurance Scheme with the trade-off that the federal government would continue to honour the GST distribution deal negotiated in 2018 by Morrison when he was treasurer.

That deal is primarily about the west. It is probably unprecedented in Australian history. It is driven by political power, the power of a GST deal to shape the results of WA seats in federal elections. The deal negotiated by Morrison was bipartisan; under Chalmers it remains bipartisan. It is a special arrangement that delivers huge financial support to the richest state. Neither Labor nor the Coalition like to discuss what’s happening.

That riles independent economists Eslake and Chris Richardson, who have separately reached the same conclusion and campaign against what they condemn as a disastrous public policy with no redeeming features. “This represents a transfer of almost $40bn to the government of the richest state in Australia,” Eslake tells Inquirer. “A state that is richer than the rest of Australia by a vastly larger margin than any other state has ever been, so the citizens of that state can enjoy better public services and lower levels of state taxation than the citizens of the rest of Australia.”

Haha the East Coast cartel getting upset.... good shut the border again please.