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Stopping the boats
Him:
I am beginning to wonder if the immigration/boats debate is being manipulated by Julia Gillard to such a degree that it would make Machiavelli proud.
Julia has said that she is committed to stopping the boats through her "Malaysian" solution. Her proposed changes to the Immigration Act will clearly not get passed by Parliament.
By asking Abbott and the Libs for help she has backed them into a position where they will be the cause of the policy failing.
Julia can then say that the only solution is to instigate a policy of onshore processing of the "boat people".
:thumbsup
mightytiges:
Of course it's pure politics. Both sides are trying to look "tough" and are just pandering to the anti-immigration losers and the media who freak out over refugees arriving by boat by not by plane ::).
Ironically when we didn't have any mandatory detention in the 80s nor offshore processing not one boat arrived for 7 straight years! Just shows overseas conflicts play the major role in the number of refugees arriving rather than what stupid pollies in Australia come up with.
http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/bn/sp/boatarrivals.htm#_Toc285178607
The most people who have arrived by boat in any one year is 6,600. So it's not even half our required annual international obligated refugee intake of 13,500. It's also just 3% of our total immigration intake per year. All this fuss and taxpayers money wasted on pretending to stop a small number of asylum seekers entering the country who even if taken to Nauru or somewhere offshore they enter Australia eventually anyway. So yep they are all playing politics trying to wedge the other. It's all about perception instead of reality.
Penelope:
--- Quote from: mightytiges on September 17, 2011, 07:10:53 PM ---
Just shows overseas conflicts play the major role in the number of refugees arriving rather than what stupid pollies in Australia come up with.
--- End quote ---
After fighting against Italy in WW11 we went through a period of large italian immigration into the country.
After getting involved in Vietnam we received a large influx of vietnmese.
Lately it was the iraqis, and more recently Afghanistan.
Eff i hope we dont go to war with the Yanks
mightytiges:
--- Quote from: al on September 17, 2011, 07:26:16 PM ---After fighting against Italy in WW11 we went through a period of large italian immigration into the country.
After getting involved in Vietnam we received a large influx of vietnmese.
Lately it was the iraqis, and more recently Afghanistan.
Eff i hope we dont go to war with the Yanks
--- End quote ---
A few Yanks here already :yep
You're right btw al. Even after WWI a few Italians migrated here :thumbsup.
cub:
Blow a couple up and they will stop coming.
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