LNP Asylum policy has Failed....no stopping the boats now

[topsidesoul]

Turn back the boats eh?

Expect another in days and Abbotts promises to be worth nothing.

Hear that silence?....it's the people who made this a hot issue  months before the election....and declared a stop to the boats with a new PM......they are silent. as expected.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/abbott-government-ends-asylum-seeker-standoff-...

Tony Abbott's government capitulated to Indonesia on Friday night, ordering a Customs boat with up to 63 refugees on board to go to Christmas Island.

An asylum seeker in Indonesia contacted Fairfax Media early on Saturday to say the boat had reached the Australian territory on Saturday morning after Immigration Minister Scott Morrison failed to convince Indonesia to accept their return.

"I have friends on the boat," the asylum seeker said in a text message, "and yesterday he says, 'My boat [has] reached.'"

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The source said the people on board were from Pakistan and Afghanistan, and had been organised by people smugglers called Muzahir and Sher Ali.

The arrival is a loss of face for the Coalition, which vowed before the election that Australian authorities would not act as a taxi service for refugees. It may also encourage other people smuggling syndicates to try their hand.

[topsidesoul]

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@am*3 wrote:

Hello? Is this thread about Tony Abbott's statements(promises) re turning back the boats or a previous Govt's budgets?

Australia's new Prime Minister Tony Abbott has vowed to turn asylum-seeker boats back to Indonesia -- from where many embark on the dangerous journey -- when it is safe to do so.

But Jakarta has received the policy coolly, and on Friday an official angrily rejected the idea of asylum seekers being returned to Java.

"The Indonesian government NEVER AGREED to such wishes or policies of Australia," Djoko Suyanto, co-ordinating minister for political, legal and security affairs told AFP in a text message.

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Ignore em, trying to make us  ignore what is currently happening and doing a bad job at it by bringing up  budget talk and changing the discussion.

Maybe Liberal luvvies could ban any talk of the current government and give us a weekly report from 'their persepective'?

It's working great with Asylum seekers.

[donnashuggy]

lol, it was libs that said they were going to stop the boats, so it's labor fault they can't?????

they made false promises.

[icyfroth]

ok

[just_me_karen]

That's the cold hard truth, Donna. They lied. They ranted and raved a million times about stopping the boats, turning them around....and more importantly, they told outright lies about agreement with Indonesia. One term Tony FIBBit!!! 😄

[icyfroth]

Time to get over it and move on ppl, get with AUSTRALIA fgs and get over your little obsessions with big ears, budgie smugglers and slips of the tongue!

Our puny little individual opinions don't count for diddly-squat in the larger scheme of things so unless we can present a united front as previous generations did during 2 WW's, they're not worth 2 bob.

[cherry*135]

Noone in this thread has resorted to personal insults about Tony Abbott. They are discussing Tony Abbott's promise to turn back the boats.. he has failed to do that... this is a big issue, no getting away from that.

I don't think Indonesia should have to agree to anything just because Tony Abbott dreamed it would work (for Aust).

Individual opinions do count, individuals are voters and come 3 years time they will be voting... on the track record of the Abbott Govt.

[icyfroth]

ok

[cherry*135]

No comment.

[just_me_karen]

As a democracy, there are no "puny opinions". Every opinion is important and equally so.

Phoney FIBBit 😄 with his big ears, aggressive stance, budgie smugglers, xenophobic attitudes, science denial and ineptitude is an embarrassment on the world stage, IMO.

He promised he'd stop the boats and he didnt. It was a fib. Now we have to find out what our secretive govt is doing by reading the Jakarta press.

[icyfroth]

yes something for the labs to gnaw at while they're waiting for their own party to come up with something worth discussing, I guess.