Army says don’t tell people smugglers our secrets. Greens and Labor say we must
Looks like the Greens and Labor are the smugglers best friends..... We know that already that they are and they support the smugglers and an open border policy and do NOT support Australia at all.
Three boats in one week is the most for many weeks now:
The federal government has finally confirmed that an asylum-seeker boat reached Darwin on Monday and was one of three to arrive in Australian waters in the past week…
The three boats carried a total of 163 passengers and eight crew.
The Greens – and Labor - are demanding the release of information that the head of Operation Soverei...
In an escalation of her attack on the Coalition for its “secret” military-led border protection regime, Greens immigration spokesman Sarah Hanson-Young put a motion to the Senate ordering the government to release any documents relating to the interception and turning back of asylum-seeker vessels.
The motion was backed by Labor, passing the Senate this morning 31 votes to 28.
General Angus Campbell tried today to explain at great lengths to the media that the information the...
General Campbell said he wouldn’t disclose anything which would give people smugglers an advantage or could be used by them to manipulate or confuse their potential customers.
“They use official announcements of vessel interceptions to persuade people that the way to Australian remains open. It does not,” he said.
General Campbell said information about arrivals led to release of final payments to the smugglers, but delays would complicate their operations in an increasingly tight market.
“We know that passengers have been told on occasion by people smugglers not to be concerned by the poor state of their vessel, by the inexperience of their crew by the lack of provisions on board because their voyage will be short and they will very quickly marry up with an Australian vessel,” he said.
“People smugglers are using these announcements to claim victory.”
So on whose side are the Greens, Labor and clamoring journalists? On the people smugglers’ or on those trying to stop them?
The former chief of the Australian Defence Force - a Labor favorite - backs the Government’s restrictions:
ABC 702 SYDNEY
FRIDAY 15 NOVEMBER 2013
ADAM SPENCER:
Excellent. Thank you very much. Can I ask you a question on a separate matter if that’s alright. You led the expert panel on asylum seekers and we’re now seeing an increasing role for the military and border protection. We’re also not getting a lot of information from the Government or the military about what’s being involved in Operation Sovereign Borders. Do you personally have an opinion on whether this level of secrecy is warranted?
ANGUS HOUSTON:
Well I think one of the problems that you face when you’re conducting an operation like this is the need to guard information and I guess the military way of doing things is to operate with a high degree of operational security, to keep the people smugglers on the back foot and I think that’s really why there’s a need for operational security and that’s why things are the way they are at the moment.
