"We're going to need a bigger boat" This is the reaction to the PNG solution from the criminal people smugglers. 3000 have arrived since Rudd announced the solution. Another massive rescue at sea.
His so called solution is now ignored by Rudd & he refuses to answer & gets nasty with journo's if they dare to ask any questions about it. So I feel quite righteous in saying "another boat another policy failure"
read on
LABOR'S Papua New Guinea Solution to stop boat arrivals has failed politically.
More importantly, the latest sinking of a people-smuggler boat off Christmas Island and the arrival of almost 3000 asylum-seekers since Kevin Rudd's dramatic announcement of the PNG deal mean Australia's response has failed practically.
The rate of arrivals is now so out of balance with the rate of banishments to PNG and the number of voluntary repatriations of asylum-seekers to Iran, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan, that the government cannot say all of the 3000-odd arrivals will not stay in Australia.
The object of the Prime Minister's July 19 announcement was to frighten people off setting to sea in leaky boats to seek asylum in Australia, so as to restore immigration control and stop deaths at sea.
It has not worked.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/columnists/facing-up-to-a-colossal-failure-on-all-fronts/sto...
