From Julia's article:
'The only way to stop the deaths was to stop the boats from coming, Mr Farage said.
"In 2008 Australia faced a very similar crisis, boatloads of people coming on even longer sea journeys, boats sinking, and Australia stopped it by saying 'if you want to come to Australia you will not come by these means'.
"The Australians did it, the Australians stopped the drownings in that tide of misery.
"We must make sure that we do nothing to encourage people to seek refugee status in this country who come across the Mediterranean. We've got to start discouraging people from coming to Europe by those means if we're serious about stopping the deaths."
Tony Abbott had offered the EU help and advice in the way Australia dealt with their crisis.
"I am sad to say that advice has been spurned," he said'.
Me too Nigel, me too. And I suspect most of the UK are also saddened that Abbott' s advice was kicked into touch. It's common knowledge here that your Border Controls in Australia are far and away superior to ours.The EU is a complete abomination, and the sooner we are out of it the better. Hopefully that will come to pass with the 'In-Out' referendum. Fingers crossed. The downside is, it isn't until the end of 2017.
