74 Days and NO BOATS.. WELL DONE LNP

[nero_bolt]

Well done to the LNP and Scott Morrison 74 days now and NOT a single boat has arrived at Christmas Island and not a single ILLEGAL has come to Australia via the back door and the ILLEGAL boats

Saving the Australian tax payer millions and the LNP is doing what they said they could do, unlike the failed and disgraced Labor govt and the screaming left 

Much egg on Labors and the screaming left and greens faces 

What a failure the Labor.green policy was.... 

[azureline**]

I hope you are wrong

[lakeland27]

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@azureline** wrote:

I hope you are wrong

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 i hope the source is wrong too. secrecy leads to much uncertainty, most of it not good.

[spotweldersfriend]

And not a single job created either.Well done...

[freakiness]

http://ryansheales.com/

There is a serious debate to be had in Australia about asylum seeker policy.

Millions of people flee persecution every year, and their passage from danger to safety needs to be regulated. Most people agree with this, even if their views on exactly how  then to manage the issue differ.

Hence the debate that’s currently raging across our nation’s homes, pubs and halls of power.

Valid questions are being asked in this debate.

How many asylum seekers can Australia sustainably accommodate? How should we, as a nation, deter/manage/encourage asylum seekers? Is ‘stopping the boats’ Australia’s only policy objective? Is mandatory detention a useful policy measure?  Etc etc

These are complex issues worthy of detailed examination.

However, my website sorryasylumseekers.com wasn’t established for that purpose.

Instead, sorryasylumseekers.com is based on a philosophy that Australia’s asylum seeker policy debate — while worthy and necessary — should take place on a bedrock of humanity.

Whatever your views on the Pacific, Malaysia or PNG solutions, surely we can all agree that basic human decency is a worthy objective?

However you assess Australia’s obligations under international law, surely we can all agree that as a rich country we should treat those in our care with respect?

The website is about saying sorry for harsh or inhumane treatment, which is entirely avoidable.

I want compassion for those fleeing persecution as an agreed starting point, something considered sacrosanct by all Australians. Only then can we  have a mature and fruitful debate about real-world policy solutions.

[newstart2380]

I am very happy there have been no boat arrivals for 74 days as are most Australians who care about how the country is run, if you really believe Scott Morrison and the LNP can hide boat arrivals you are sillier than I thought you were.

The death was the result and the fault of the detainees NOT either side of government, how could anyone stop someone from killing another if they really wanted to in a place like the camps 

YES the camps Labor and KRudd set up so please stop making it the fault of the present government for trying to clean up all these disasters lefgt lover from the Rudd, Gillard, Rudd years.

[icyfroth]

Compassion is given.

What Australians really should be saying sorry about is for supporting the US and Britain in the destabilisation of the Middle East, by way of support and/or arms, finance and training, and in favour of Israel.

If the both these nations could just rein their appetite for warmongering, and Israel would withdraw from Palestine, a lot of people could just stay home in peace and not have to flee for their lives in leaky boats and throw themselves on the mercy of countries already overflowing with refugees.

Now they're sticking their beaks into the looming Ukraine Civil war! Is there no end to their relish for power!

[monman12]

"There is a serious debate to be had in Australia about asylum seeker policy."

And so far the people have indicated along these lines:

SMH Jan 2014

"A strong majority of Australians, 60 per cent, also want the Abbott government to “increase the severity of the treatment of asylum seekers.”......"Only 30 per cent of Australians think asylum seekers should not be treated more severely......"

I do not think the figures will change much over time.

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[lakeland27]

well they did change at the end of howards term. people are better than that, and also prone to changes of heart. that is one reason the government keeps operation sov borders details hidden, in case the truth swings opinion back against them. The other thing you fail to consider is that polls attract the most engaged .. the zealots.

[fourandsixpants]

hey, monman12......you sound like the bloke, not as articulate/well versed in intelligent issues though, that fills in on long weekends/public hols for the real monman?!

.....surrounded by idyuts

[freakiness]

What type of survey produced those figures?

It's a sad day when a country almost full of migrants and refugees of some sort wishes to treat people more harshly than they are currently treated now, in camps like prisons with no hope for freedom.