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Every election time sees the Lib and Lab supporter on here having a go at eachother, but never before, on CS or the past CW board, have i seen it carry on and on and on after the election is over.
Its ridiculous.
Its done. Its over.
Let it go until the next election.
- Hardline sees number of asylum-seekers drop by 44pc
- LAUREN WILSON AND PAUL MALEY
- THE AUSTRALIAN
- SEPTEMBER 07, 2013
SINCE Kevin Rudd struck offshore resettlement arrangements with Papua New Guinea and Nauru on the eve of the election campaign, the number of asylum-seekers travelling by boat to Australia has dropped 44 per cent.
And, in a sign the policy is working, The Weekend Australian understands 30 asylum-seekers from Iran who arrived after the
PNG Solution was unveiled on July 19 are on their way back to Tehran.
Data provided by the Department of Immigration reveals that over the seven weeks following the Prime Minister's announcement that no boat arrival would be settled in Australia, 3175 asylum-seekers have challenged Labor's resolve.
More than 1300 of those, however, were intercepted in the first week of the PNG Solution, and some were already at sea when Mr Rudd unveiled the hardline approach alongside his PNG counterpart Peter O'Neil.
The number of people risking their lives on boats is now down 44 per cent on the 5636 arrivals who made the journey to Australia in the seven weeks prior to the PNG Solution.
Authorities late yesterday confirmed the arrival of a vessel carrying 90 asylum-seekers, which takes to 149 the number who have arrived in the final week of the campaign.
It is well short of the 1297 asylum-seekers who arrived the week before the PNG Solution.
A charter plane carrying some 30 Iranian asylum-seekers yesterday left Australia for Tehran. It is the largest group of Iranians to request to return home.
Voltaire is quite interesting MM
François-Marie Arouet (1694 - 1778), better known by his "trade" name Voltaire, was a poet, playwright, novelist, historian, and philosopher who embodied theEnlightenment in eighteenth-century absolutist France. Voltaire was an Anglophile, and was instrumental in bringing the works of Newton and Locke fromEngland to French intellectual circles.
Views and ideas
As self-proclaimed deist, Voltaire loathed organized religion and intolerance between creeds. Strong anti-clericalism pervades most of Voltaire's writings. He believed that all religions attempt to teach morality and that all are based on just precepts—it is only the particulars of religious beliefs that are "absurd." As a deist, he was a supporter of the "clockmaker" argument for the existence of God. Voltaire despised superstition and optimism, themes that surface in the novelCandide, his most widely-known work. Voltaire subscribed to the revolutionary Enlightenment notion that "custom is a greater decider of difference than nature," a principle that still holds for today's anthropologists and all who attempt to practice multiculturalism.
It is also worth noting that Voltaire was an infamous anti-Semite,[2][3] and referred to Jews as "calculating animals," "plagiarists in everything," and "the biggest tramps who have ever spoiled the face of the earth."[4] He was also a Eurocentric racist, and derided Africans as "less intelligent than apes." Jeez, Volty. Everyone today would have loved you if it wasn't for that.[5]
Famous quotes
- "Man is free at the moment he wishes to be."
- "Love truth, but pardon error."
- "To hold a pen is to be at war."
- "It is dangerous to be right in matters where established authorities are wrong."
- "A witty saying proves nothing."
- "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him."
- "Christianity is without a doubt the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and the most bloody religion that has ever infected the world."[6][7]
- "It is a serious question among them whether [Africans] are descended from monkeys or whether the monkeys come from them. Our wise men have said that man was created in the image of God. Now here is a lovely image of the Divine Maker: a flat and black nose with little or hardly any intelligence. A time will doubtless come when these animals will know how to cultivate the land well, beautify their houses and gardens, and know the paths of the stars: one needs time for everything."
IS, interesting graph, however it is in weekly time slots and yes after Rudd announced, in 2012, the immediate reopening of immigration detention facilities on Manus Island and Nauru, which the government implemented with bipartisan support, the weekly arrivals declined, but did you notice my figures were for yearly arrivals, NOT weekly. Taking the lowest weekly figure provided (143) would extrapolate to 7436 annually, which still calls into question JMK's somewhat amazing comments:
JMK: "achievements of the previous govt. Here are some: - successfully reduced the number of asylum seeker boats"
"it shows how boat numbers have steadily declined since Labor's Kevin Rudd introduced his policy"
Like time periods need to be compared for a meaningful comparison, so I will play the game:
In Howard's last year (2006) every week 0.12 of a boat arrived carrying a total of 1.2 people
"declined", "reduced" ?????????
Refs: 1989–2008: DIAC advice provided to the Parliamentary Library on 22 June 2009
2009–2013: Customs and Border Protection advice provided to the Parliamentary Library on 1 July 2013.
PS
I do agree with your comment IS: " Voltaire is quite interesting MM"
JMK "mm, wrong graph and dodgy numbers."
Hardly JMK, they come from the government of the time (ALP), and just writing it does not make it so, without valid references.
However, provide the right graph and correct numbers and enlighten me.
