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Boatpeople - A one- sided issue?

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Banjo, what's your solution?

I'm talking about a practical, workable, real world solution.

Something that will solve the issues to your satisfaction.

So Banjo, what's your solution?
Posted by benq, Friday, 28 May 2010 9:44:47 PM
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Dear Banjo,

Well I looked it up...

The original policy, according to
Crikey.com for processing each
applicant was $500,000 and estimated
to have cost about $1 billion over
5 years. And all this expense went
down the gurgler because according
to Crikey.com - 90% of the Temporary
Visa holders under the Howard Government
were eventually given Permanent Visas
anyway.
Posted by Foxy, Friday, 28 May 2010 9:47:59 PM
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One solution being considered is a massive boatyard/immigration facility somewhere near the gas thingy. Many of these boats are in need of repair, many of the passengers have limited English skills but evidently experience with these types of crafts. Keep it all fenced off, and keep distributing travel brochures for other countries amongst them. Eventually they'll get the idea and sail off into the sunset happily.

Planepeople are a different matter entirely. Unfortunately, on a family site such as this, expletives must be used sparingly at best. And so I cant actually verbalise it appropriately despite my adequate locqacity, the aeroplane armrest hog. Lord Howe Island prison with 1800's conditions would be too good for armrest hogs.

And let me tell you, I dont see why I should be discriminated against for simply having sexy, svelte, shapely, and to-die-for elbows. I mean sure, they look great... but even these babies (*starts trying to kiss and lick elbows*) could do with a rest every so often.
Posted by PatTheBogan, Friday, 28 May 2010 10:06:54 PM
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What I don't understand is - if illegal
arrivals by air are processed so quickly
and sent back according to one poster,
(unless they are legitimate refugees) the
same rule should surely apply to boat people
as well.

If they are accepted as refugees -
my suggestion is
they should be asked to sign a minimum
ten year contract (to act as a deterent)
to live and work in
designated rural areas instead of allowing
them to disappear into urban communities.

If they break that contract, they should
be found and deported back to their last port
of call outside Australia.

This may act as a deterent for others whose
ambition may be to come and live in the major
population centres.

In the late 1940s and 1950s refugee migrants
who were accepted into the country after World
War II, had to sign 2 year contracts to work
on various government projects throughout
Australia. The Snowy Mountain Scheme as an
example, and forestry work in Tasmania,
road building in NSW, cane-cutting in Queensland,
railways in Victoria and Western Australia, coal
mines in La Trobe Valley, just to name a few. These
jobs brought in refugee migrant workers
some of whom worked longer than their 2 year contracts
- and ended up settling in the vicinity of their work
Posted by Foxy, Friday, 28 May 2010 10:33:04 PM
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Facts do matter, emotive slings and arrows remain to be judged by truth.
FAR more illegal migration comes via air ports.
Carrying the right documents to enter Australia, but the wrong intentions, to work hide and stay not just be a temporary tourist is a fact.
Sending them back?
To what place?
Many destroy their papers and no country will except them.
more than ten times as many come via air ports as boats, even much more than that.
Posted by Belly, Saturday, 29 May 2010 5:53:58 AM
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BOAT PEOPLE...GREEN SUPPORT.. UNPACKING THE NETWORK.

Folks.. it's alll about 'politics, power and pennies'...lots of them.

The Greens see votes in marginal seats in 'Assylum Seekers'.
Labor wants to be seen to be 'sympathetic' for similar reasons.

Is it out of the goodness of their hearts and their unparalleled compassion ? :)

HaaaaHAAAA-de-haaaaaa-HAAA... ohhhh my what a joke!

If the 'green' lemmings only knew..(don't worry Australia..I'll soon let them know)

Australia...when I reveal the Green/Labor network of snouts in the Green trough, you will never vote Green or Labor again.

The level of cronyism, corruption.. conflict of interest, blatant political oppotunism, the hypocrisy, the graft and corruption... it will blow your mind.

From now on.. whenEVER you think of Labor/Left/Green..think "corruption/pseudo capitalism/global governance/Total social control/power/money/Neo Facism" as I will soon point out. (Irrefutably)

The "Boat People" are just pawns in the big plan...and that plan..is HUGE -bigger..much bigger than Ben Hur..
Posted by ALGOREisRICH, Saturday, 29 May 2010 7:48:07 AM
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