Severin,
Gotta great talent there!
When you learn some lines –there aint no way your going to forget em!

“10 percent of asylum seekers arrive in leaky boats, the other 90 percent arrive by plane or legally chartered ships…yada yada yada”

Yes we acknowledge that Severin, but we have already answered it – maybe you weren’t listening
So once again : CLAMP DOWN ON BOTH!

And as for:
“Something stinks, and it is not unwashed boat-people”
Psst! I suspect it’s Peter King – there's something very fishy about the “refugee” alibi he’s been trying to sell – he certainly didn’t pick it up from the fresh food people!

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Poirot,
RE: “The Fraser government, I believe, decided to boost its formal intake of Vietnamese refugees as a tactic to stem the flow of those arriving by boat and this was successful, ie. we still took in the refugees, but were relieved of the hysteria surrounding boat arrivals. In other words, what went unnoticed by the general public doesn't seem to have hurt them”

Too right –Those were the days of bipartisanship : the Henry Ford approach, any colour you like as long as it's black.
Damn the proles! they've got no right sticking their noses into important issues like this.
Border security is best left to the elite , like you... and Severin... and Peter King (quite an appropriate surname, considering…)

<< Of course the general public aren't agitating for an increase in the formal refugee intake - would you really expect them to? >>

No Poirot. The general public by and large agrees with Abbott and Gillard. But I’d expect the Greens and others who denounce Labor and Liberal policies on this matter to be strongly calling for an increase in our refugee quota and an increase in our international aid effort, if they expect to be taken seriously on refugee and humanitarian issues. But they just aren’t, are they.