http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elie_Wiesel

.....for the pot and all that

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@lightningdance wrote:

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@i-need-a-martini wrote:

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@lightningdance wrote:

Lets get this straight once and for all.

You can't board a plane without a valid passport and a visa for entry into Australia.

 

So all the 120.000 that came in that way melted into the community and the Rudd/

Gillard fiasco did squat about it.

 

When will it ever end? never, like herpes Labor just keeps on giving.

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No how about we get this straight - 

 

Whilst Rudd was in ofice and the Liberal Party kept bleating on and on about "illegal" boat arrivals, Rudd continued to bring up that we had a bigger problem with LEGAL entries overstaying their visa. And there were quite a few threads about it on here too. The statistics have always been out in the open - something like 50,000 people overstay their visa every year. But why didn't Abbott think this was an issue? Oh yeah that;s right! It was/is because the majority are westerners.

 

The public campaign from Abbott about "Illegal" boat arrivals eclipsed any other issue.

 

I am wondering what Abbott/Morrison has done to address this this year. Given that they gave so much energy and thought to boat arivals, I am assuming they also addressed this issue similarly? 

 

Perhaps Lightning or Nero could locate the policy that includes the Liberal Party's strategies on this topic?

 

 

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My answer is to the topic not what you want it to be. You can't enter Australia by plane without a valid passport. Got it.?

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MY answer was to the topic and not what YOU want it to be. 'Your' government ignored this problem because it was so fixated on 'Stopping the Boats!!!' that nothing else seemed to matter. Got it?

ref.:  My answer is to the topic not what you want it to be. You can't enter Australia by plane without a valid passport. Got it.?

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.....err apparently you can, or we would not be having this friendly discussion......

ref.  You can't enter Australia by plane without a valid passport. Got it.?

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supanova said:

.....I am sure some procedures can be improved, but I am also sure that the  of fake passports can also become more sophisticated.

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Perhaps it is a much more 'dark' an agenda behind all this......

Perhaps this neoLib Government has an Agenda and would like for example, to aim for an all inclusive ceiling on legal immigration of say, 100,000.....they might also like to apply a 5 year Moratorium......or even try and apply all this retrospectively.

see post # 1658 in Diary of our stinking Govt. 

http://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Diary-of-our-stinking-Govt/td-p/1173225/page/83

...."The anti-immigrant population control organization, Carrying Capacity Network (CCN), which promotes itself as a liberal environmental group, recently launched the Diversity Coalition for an Immigration Moratorium. Its goal is to bring together "ethnically and racially diverse groups and individuals" to press for an immediate five-year moratorium with a 100,000 all-inclusive ceiling on legal immigration. ....."...