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Spot on runner.

Prime Minister Rudd’s weakening of Howard’s border-protection policy had to be one of the bluntly stupidest political moves of all time.

Now Foreign Minister Rudd is reviewing and expanding our international aid programs. Good! Oh but if only he had done that in the first place and left Howard’s very effective solution to the onshore asylum seeking issue alone.

We could have had much-improved humanitarian programs without all this terribly emotive and damn dangerous onshore asylum-seeking carry-on, with many times the number of people being assisted as are now being assisted after arriving on rickety boats.

If one is to blame anyone or protocols regarding Assylum seekers and these vulnerable families seeking safety and a better way of life in our country - blame their people and governments, break it all down to the three key historical factors: greed, power, religions, that exist in every country, however Western countries, including Australia, make the effort to uphold Humanitarian Rights and/or assist other countries' people during their crises times.

Australians are not at fault regarding the sudden arrivals of these innocent families on to our remote Islands; blame it squarely and firmly where it [the blame] belongs: back to the Assylum seekers' government.

You hit the open seas, you take your chances.

If these people knew that their attempts at illegal entry would actually reduce their chances of free welfare for life in Australia then they wouldn't be encouraged to risk their lives.

Australia should have a zero tolerance policy on destination shoppers.
Posted by Proxy, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 6:30:43 PM

Well said Proxy. For every one you let in........that's one less job for your child, one less for you and everything that our war boys died for. Australia is one of the last places on earth that will make it through this over-population explosion that the planet is crumbling under...........

When rats are leaving the ship..........this is true and clear evidence that the world has serous people problems.

Look........give this country away! Your all too silly to see how lucky you are.

......and No infrastructural plan to cater for it.lol

This is the DUMB country.

Shame,Shame,Shame.

BLUE

Dear CSTEELE...you say:

"A more generous intake of these blighted people will certainly help."

mmm...help...what? Does it occur to you that once you start to assist or be more generous of that particular 'way in' that it will encourage MANY MANY more to think "Oh...this is the way for me" and we will end up with proportionately more 'desperate people' in Indonesia all thinking they deserve to come to Australia?

Do you really honestly deep down think that making it easier will not increase numbers? (creating the same situation, but more of them)

If a Christian came by this method...they take their chances like everyone else...and if they are successful, at least they will be compatible with our society and values rather than those who hold to the idea they should usurp our Government and replace it with Sharia law OR use Australia as a home base for nourishing separatist nationalist revolutionary ideas for Tamils in Sri Lanka.

Anyone noticed the thinkrefugees add running through the middle of these posts?

Runner,
A tragedy like this is no reason to run scared back to a racist hateful policy. it is a reason to move further to a compassionate one. Your lack of true christian disposition never ceases to amaze me.

Shadow Minister,
I now have no doubt you are a liberal plant on these pages. I heard a journalist state that the opposition will wait till after christmas to start the open attack over this but to expect a lot of unidentified sources to start right away. Typical of the coalition to use human tragedy to justify hateful policy and make it look like they are doing the world a favour. That's how they gave us the Afgan/Iraq war and now they don't want to be responsible for the victims they created, instead we pull the national security line and make out we are all important. Weak, spineless and hateful policy.