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Rise of the Right : Comments

By Greg Barns, published 13/2/2019

That Australia has so readily embraced the populist-right politics of nationalism and xenophobia perpetuated by former prime minister John Howard in the 2001 Tampa incident and beyond will be seen as a great error.

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Anyone who suggests that there has be a 'rise of the right' in this country is seriously deluded and should be ignored. We now have doctors set to run our border protection!
Posted by ttbn, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 8:25:33 AM
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To have these ideas this bloke must live under a rock, or earn his daily bread from lefty causes.

To actually hold his opinions, he has obviously never looked at the result of recent middle eastern & north African gate crashing by what he probably considers asylum seekers.

Nor could he have looked at the terrorising of citizens of Melbourne & Sydney in particular by African youth gangs.

Perhaps he has no media access under his rock. If he had a bright lawyer should have noticed we pay over a billion dollars a year funding an extreme left wing organisation to spurt bulldust all over the counter.

Sorry I got it wrong. He obviously is most certainly not a "bright" lawyer, he is a very dumb left of Khrushchev lawyer.
Posted by Hasbeen, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 9:07:14 AM
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Well written piece by the author. We in Australia have managed to stymie the ambitions of the hard right even in the more recent histories of Joh for PM, One Nation and Palmer. Even the demise of Abbott and the failure of Dutton to grab the leadership reins, and the likely election of Labour speak to a sensible center which to a large degree still exists.

That is not to say the threat has been put to bed but for now a collapse into triumphalistic Trumpism seems to have been averted.
Posted by SteeleRedux, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 9:44:17 AM
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Sadly & frighteningly, this bloke is typical of the Left mentality. Why they, added significantly by Labor & the ABC, have become so successful in denouncing common sense is beyond the realm of sense.
Posted by individual, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 9:47:52 AM
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Even SR doesn't take it seriously, saying that "we", the Far Left, have "stymied" the right. Barnes is about as perceptive as the doctor who recently described Manus as being like Auschwitz. Don't these people know anything. Haven't they read anything since the 'Little Golden Books'. No, they're probably too young to remember them.
Posted by ttbn, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 11:17:20 AM
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Well, there is little doubt that both major parties have slipped to the right and the once great liberal party has had its core values/socially liberal principles, undermined by the (extreme) hard right. That said, we can't ever go soft on organised criminal, human trafficking. Or the sexual slavery that funds much of it.

Economic migrants hold on to their identifying documentation for the purpose of visas and flying to compliant host counties. Like Indonesia and to a lesser extent, Malaysia? Once they are safe in their compliant host countries, they seem to be able to find the equivalent of a year's salary to pay for a short boat ride to Chrismas Island!?

Refugees on the other hand rarely have the economic means to achieve similar outcomes, and all to often eke out generational accommodation in rat hole refugee camps. And the world now has in excess of fifty million of them.

If we are to take in more undocumented folk? Folk who have quite deliberately and knowingly destroyed their identifying documentation, you know the ones needed to get visas to transit countries!

They first should be obliged to pass covertly deployed, unbeatable, space-age lie detection testing. And if failed three times with three different interviewers, automatically repatriated. No ifs, buts or maybes!
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Wednesday, 13 February 2019 12:47:50 PM
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