A record 4309 boat people in a single month
Another 47 boats arrived in July, bringing the most illegal immigrants in a single month - 4309.
Oops. The Press Council says I cannot call them illegal immigrants. I meant “asylum seekers”. I do apologise to the Free Speech Police for daring to say what I think.
Greg Sheridan:
Kevin Rudd and Immigration Minister Tony Burke say that everyone who comes to Australia by boat seeking asylum will go to PNG for processing and, if found to be refugees, will be resettled in PNG. The problem is, that’s not what PNG Prime Minister Peter O’Neill says…
In an interview with The Australian, O’Neill said he was confident far fewer than 3000 boatpeople would ever go to PNG. Yet, in the two weeks since Rudd announced the PNG Solution, 1500 people have arrived in Australia by boat seeking asylum. The capacity of Manus Island today, according to the government, is 464 people ... with no capacity for women, children or families. O’Neill also made it clear that his government had not moved on carrying out refugee assessments on asylum-seekers who go to Manus, nor had he worked out or committed to any potential number of resettlement places.
The price of this "fix" to the damage of Labor caused? At least 600 million, plus a redirection of aid...
KEVIN Rudd’s vow to send asylum-seekers to Papua New Guinea will come at a headline cost of $1 billion in the government’s budget update today, but the price tag will be cut by $400 million through savings on reduced onshore processing.
The economic statement to be released by Chris Bowen will also reveal plans to redirect $400m from the existing international aid program to PNG over four years to help cover the cost of the health and education projects that helped secure the border-protection deal…
The Prime Minister’s agreement with PNG, which is being budgeted at a net cost of $600 million over the forward estimate...includes spending on accommodation, resettlement, education, health and security.
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