Boat arrivals

[*crikey*mate*]

Have any unauthorized boats carrying people with the intent to seek asylum in Australia arrived in the past few weeks?

[lakeland27]

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@**meep** wrote:

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@lakeland27 wrote:

funny, i hate the rudd/now abbott plan . i much prefer the greens approach. when looked at neither make sense, but the green plan is easier to live with. its what we should do, not what the worst among us demand we do.

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Fair enough.  How is the Greens' plan going to work?

"People in power who lack humanity cause suffering."

I had no idea........

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how is the Rudd/now Abbott plan going to work in the long term  ? is it sustainable to spend billions ? what happens when the navy needs to be somewhere else ?  ATM there is no permanent solution, just a stopgap. the only longer term solution i've heard that isn't the green one  involves a regional plan which as yet doesn't exist.

[bluecat*dancing]

http://greens.org.au/safer-pathways

• We will increase Australia's humanitarian intake to 30,000, which will make a difference and provide hope to people waiting.
• By resettling to Australia an emergency intake of 10,000 more genuine refugees from our region, we can show refugees that there is a ‘regular’ path to a safe life.
• 3,800 of the new places should go to urgently resettling assessed refugees directly from our immediate region including Indonesia as recommended by the Houston Panel. The Government hasn’t acted on that recommendation and only accepted 600 refugees from Indonesia this year despite the large backlog of waiting refugees.

• An extra $70 million per year in emergency funding for safe assessment centres in Indonesia would provide shelter and welfare services to refugees while they wait for assessment and resettlement
• We would boost the capacity of the UNHCR in Indonesia and Malaysia to speed up refugee assessments and resettlements.
• We would shut down all offshore detention in Nauru and PNG, with Australia to assess the claims of people who arrive by boat.
• No children should be in offshore detention or in detention in Australia.

[*ibis]

The Greens were firmly planted in the ground but as fortune would have it that ground is devoid of the sustenance that feeds them and allow germination 

translation.....they suck

[lakeland27]

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@*ibis wrote:

The Greens were firmly planted in the ground but as fortune would have it that ground is devoid of the sustenance that feeds them and allow germination 

translation.....they suck

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translation (mine) a meaningless line diguised as faux-wisdom

[polocross58]

Quote:

'  A strong majority of Australians, 60 per cent, also want the Abbott government to “increase the severity of the treatment of asylum seekers.”  end quote

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

[donnashuggy]

[polocross58]

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A mainstream news report of last week claimed Sweden's Green Party

wanted all men deported from Sweden

[polocross58]

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Having an effeminate little whiner and hair-dryer dependent megalomaniac such as Rudd as Prime Minister

was never going to work

Abbott appeals to all -- to men, to women, to children

and Donna ---- stop pretending to ask for people's opinions in thread after thread

when you spit the dummy

when those opinions  do not conform

to your personal bias

thanks

[donnashuggy]

Abbott appeals to all -- to men, to women, to children

ok 🙂 Is he becoming more popular do you think?

[polocross58]

Well, 60% believe he should treat illegals more severely

Quote:

' A strong majority of Australians, 60 per cent, also want the Abbott government to “increase the severity of the treatment of asylum seekers.”  end quote

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

What do you imagine that 'strong majority' of Aussies will do if Abbott and Co fail to treat boat-arrivals less severely ?

You believe they'll vote LNP out and run back to Labor with its open-doors and free-money for all policies ?

Do you ?

What the article says to me is 'yes', the majority of Aussies do approve of LNP's policies and initiatives

also that the majority of Aussies want more of same, across the board, from education to scrapping the hoax climate-change fakers

Yep.  I believe Abbott and his government have increasingly earned the approval of the majority since the last election