Budget: $7.5million on orange lifeboats? What the...!!!

[i-need-a-martini]

Plus:

$5.7million to be spent on an identification system aimed to locate security threats.

Plus:

$16.8million to extend the one of our navy vessels

Plus:

$25million to extend the contract for an armed patrol vessel.

So more than half a billion just to keep an insignificant slection of people from landing here?

Unbelievable.

[ufo_investigations]

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@i-need-a-martini wrote:

Plus:

$5.7million to be spent on an identification system aimed to locate security threats.

Plus:

$16.8million to extend the one of our navy vessels

Plus:

$25million to extend the contract for an armed patrol vessel.

So more than half a billion just to keep an insignificant slection of people from landing here?

Unbelievable.

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Stopping the boats is absolutely necessary. This got my vote. Under labor we had boats arriving almost every day.

Our centrelink queues are long enough we don't need more people on benefits.

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Nobody will drown from applying online it is 100% safe.

[acacia_pycnantha]

The USA wants us to increase our military defense budget and maybe this is an excuse to do so in the absence of any other threat which would justify such expenditure.

[*mrgrizz*]

can you be my accountant?

i would be loaded

[i-need-a-martini]

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@*mrgrizz* wrote:

can you be my accountant?

i would be loaded

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You think I am making it up?

These are the figures going before the budget estimates hearing this morning.

[2106greencat]

martini - I don't think mrgrizz thinks you're making it up, its more about the adding - the figures don't come close to half a billiion.

[ca04]

martini - I don't think mrgrizz thinks you're making it up, its more about the adding - the figures don't come close to half a billiion.

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Maybe martini works for the news media?I have never seen them quote the same figure and always overstate the value.

[gkam2]

How many Billions did Rudd/Gillard/Rudd spend on feeding and housing this insignificant slection (sic) of people who did land here?  Half a billion seems like a good investment in the future freedom of my grandchildren to me.

I dont understand why some people want to fill this country up with persons who's first response to a difficult situation is threats and violence.  

[nero_bolt]

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@i-need-a-martini wrote:

Plus:

$5.7million to be spent on an identification system aimed to locate security threats.

Plus:

$16.8million to extend the one of our navy vessels

Plus:

$25million to extend the contract for an armed patrol vessel.

So more than half a billion just to keep an insignificant slection of people from landing here?

Unbelievable.

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Yes its unbelievalbe the appaling  standards or maths now days. 

5.7 +

16.8 +

25 =

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= 47.5 million when I went to school.

[2106greencat]

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@nero_wulf wrote:

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@i-need-a-martini wrote:

Plus:

$5.7million to be spent on an identification system aimed to locate security threats.

Plus:

$16.8million to extend the one of our navy vessels

Plus:

$25million to extend the contract for an armed patrol vessel.

So more than half a billion just to keep an insignificant slection of people from landing here?

Unbelievable.

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Yes its unbelievalbe the appaling  standards or maths now days. 

5.7 +

16.8 +

25 =

----

= 47.5 million when I went to school.

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....not to mention spelling (hee hee)

Don't slap me - I couldn't resist.