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Australians Want Boat People Treated More Harshly. Strong Support For Abbott

polocross58 — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 06:33:48 GMT

quote:

' Most Australians think asylum seekers who arrive by boat are not genuine refugees and there is strong support for the Abbott government to treat boat arrivals more harshly '

http://m.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/australians-want-boat-arrivals-treated-more-harshly-poll-20140108-30g97.html

Re: Australians Want Boat People Treated More Harshly. Strong Support For Abbott

polocross58 — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 06:38:38 GMT

quote:

Only 30 per cent of Australians think asylum seekers should not be treated more severely, while 9 per cent are unsure.

A majority of Australians - 59 per cent - oppose refugees receiving government welfare assistance. Only 27 per cent believe that refugees should receive government support.' end quote

http://m.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/australians-want-boat-arrivals-treated-more-h...

Re: Australians Want Boat People Treated More Harshly. Strong Support For Abbott

lakeland27 — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 06:47:29 GMT

its odd how people long for the good old days but abandon the spirit that made this a place worth living .

Re: Australians Want Boat People Treated More Harshly. Strong Support For Abbott

boris1gary — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 06:53:42 GMT

What a sad, terrible, shameful state of affairs. We certainly have gone from "she'll be right mate" to "I'll be right mate".

Re: Australians Want Boat People Treated More Harshly. Strong Support For Abbott

lurker17260 — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 06:55:26 GMT

On this occasion then, I'm proud to be in a minority.

Re: Australians Want Boat People Treated More Harshly. Strong Support For Abbott

freakiness — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 06:57:29 GMT

@boris1gary wrote:
What a sad, terrible, shameful state of affairs. We certainly have gone from "she'll be right mate" to "I'll be right mate".

Yep, they demonise people shamelessly then survey those who read the demonising asking them to agree with the demoniser, then say told you so.

Re: Australians Want Boat People Treated More Harshly. Strong Support For Abbott

cherry*135 — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 06:59:34 GMT

Tony Abbott speech - 'The point is not to provide sport for public discussion, the point is to stop the boats'.. 9 Jan

Better not discuss it then.

Re: Australians Want Boat People Treated More Harshly. Strong Support For Abbott

bluecat*dancing — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 07:04:19 GMT

Shameful, disgusting and disgraceful to treat vulnerable people with such ignorant and selfish disdain.

Re: Australians Want Boat People Treated More Harshly. Strong Support For Abbott

the_great_she_elephant — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 07:07:59 GMT

' Most Australians think asylum seekers who arrive by boat are not genuine refugees

That may be true - but does that make them right?

As the song in South Pacific says: 'You've got to be carefully taught' - and the Australian public has had some pretty careful teachers.

Re: Australians Want Boat People Treated More Harshly. Strong Support For Abbott

azureline** — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:11:00 GMT

I am appalled then, I can't imagine anyone I know in that group who would think that let alone vote for it.

Re: Australians Want Boat People Treated More Harshly. Strong Support For Abbott

nero_bolt — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 10:10:51 GMT

Apparently the majority of Australians are wrong and the only people that are right are the lefties/labor luvvies and greens who are the MINORITY.

Who makes the most noise and bleats the loudest.... the minority lefties

Australians want the boats stopped, Australians want our borders back, Australians want these freeloader queue jumpers at the back of the queue

So to the MINORITY>.... read that survey that was done by the very left of the left leaning Fairfax paper and read what the MAJORITY think and WANT

Re: Australians Want Boat People Treated More Harshly. Strong Support For Abbott

freakiness — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 10:31:46 GMT

Perhaps you could direct these people to the nearest queue. Do you happen to know where there is an actual queue?

Re: Australians Want Boat People Treated More Harshly. Strong Support For Abbott

izabsmiling — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 10:36:33 GMT

polocross58 wrote:

quote:

' Most Australians think asylum seekers who arrive by boat are not genuine refugees and there is strong support for the Abbott government to treat boat arrivals more harshly '

http://m.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/australians-want-boat-arrivals-treated-more-harshly-poll-20140108-30g97.html

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I am one Australian who feels that my PM is not a genuine PM ....much less a Christian as he claims to be

I wish he would go back where he came from ......

and I don't know that I've ever said that about anyone ...at least where he came from he would be safe

not the case with 90%+ of Asylum seekers

Re: Australians Want Boat People Treated More Harshly. Strong Support For Abbott

**meep** — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 10:40:32 GMT

Wasn't that Mr Rudd who put that idea in people's heads? By proposing changes to the UN Refugee Convention? To make it easier for Australia to reject refugee applications from economic migrants? Suggesting the Convention is outdated and does not reflect the current movement of displaced people? Wasn't it Bob Carr who said people arriving by boats in Australia are not refugees, they're economic migrants? Where did he get that from???

Re: Australians Want Boat People Treated More Harshly. Strong Support For Abbott

**meep** — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 10:44:13 GMT

@freakiness wrote:
Perhaps you could direct these people to the nearest queue. Do you happen to know where there is an actual queue?

"I want to be very clear about this: under this arrangement if someone seeks to come to Australia they are at risk of going to Malaysia and going to the back of the queue," the Prime Minister warned."

????????

Re: Australians Want Boat People Treated More Harshly. Strong Support For Abbott

izabsmiling — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 10:59:24 GMT

every parrot ,every demonising publication,those who republished them ,every billboard shouting out number of arrivals ,everyone who played a part in making our Country (and our Government at the time) look to be in a poor state of affairs and the Asylum seekers a 'problem' to us which needed urgent attention ....can take a bow ...they all played their part

Do you watch WWII docos and admire those who helped saved Jewish Lives ?

Do you not see the contradiction in that if you want such people of our times treated harshly ?

Re: Australians Want Boat People Treated More Harshly. Strong Support For Abbott

izabsmiling — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 11:03:59 GMT

Sorry Meep,those were hypothetical questions and not directed at you .

Re: Australians Want Boat People Treated More Harshly. Strong Support For Abbott

**meep** — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 11:08:09 GMT

@izabsmiling wrote:
Sorry Meep,those were hypothetical questions and not directed at you .

oh, ok. was just about to repeat what I said on the Oscar Schindler thread.

Re: Australians Want Boat People Treated More Harshly. Strong Support For Abbott

*crikey*mate* — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 11:42:07 GMT

@**meep** wrote:
@izabsmiling wrote:
Sorry Meep,those were hypothetical questions and not directed at you .
oh, ok. was just about to repeat what I said on the Oscar Schindler thread.

could you remind me what you said in the Oscar Schindler Thread. please? even jog my memory a bit?

Re: Australians Want Boat People Treated More Harshly. Strong Support For Abbott

izabsmiling — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 11:49:46 GMT

@**meep** wrote:
@izabsmiling wrote:
Sorry Meep,those were hypothetical questions and not directed at you .
oh, ok. was just about to repeat what I said on the Oscar Schindler thread.

He may not have been able to save everyone he wanted to

but did he tell them or believe that they were not genuinely at risk and/or strongly support people of the Jewish faith being treated more harshly by the Government ?