care about the interests of this nation.
Lexi,
Do you honestly believe the unannounced & dubiously named refugees are the interest of this Nation ?

Well Belly old mate, I don't think that you can blame the debacle
that we face, all on the greens.

I remind you that it was your hero Rudd who shut down the old
asylum seeker solution, before he'd come up with a better option.

But let's look at other news which I read today. The lamb coop
which I supply, they export most of their product, is going to
have to pay around 300'000$ just for the carbon tax, which will
take them even closer to the edge, they are already under huge
pressure from the high Dollar etc. Then I turn on the news
and your Mr Howe is all happy as the Govt will pay Alcoa mega millions
to upgrade its old equipment. The Alcoa management in America would
be smiling bigtime! New equipment bankrolled by the Aussie taxpayer.

So the labour reality is: screw the Australian farmer and give the
money to American corporations! Under these circumstances,
why should I say a single good thing about them?

Dear Individual,

Solving the problem is in the interests of
this nation.

Solving the problem is in the interests of this nation.
Lexi,
The so-called problem was a hell of a lot smaller in 2007, so why did they make it so big ?
Did Labor think they could reduce the number of arrivals by making it easier to come here ?
Any village idiot will tell you that's an idiotic mentality.

Dear Yabby,

You claim "they export most of their product, is going to have to pay around 300'000$ just for the carbon tax". So Labour dropping the company tax rate, doubling the fuel rebate to businesses, plus other adjustments is not going to mitigate at all the Carbon Tax one iota? Labour sending them to the wall? Really?

As to $300,000 bucks could I invite you to recheck. I sit on a committee of a very large water board who uses a serious amount of energy for pumping from aquifers, recycling, drying of bio solids, and shifting water around. It puts them well into the top couple of hundred energy users in the country and their very well researched Carbon price impact was $1,200,000 per annum. This added way less than 1% to people's bills.

But back to the topic.

Dear individual,

Is 'good for this nation' can often be a code word for 'less out of my pocket'?

Or do you have another definition?

Yabby,
I do not believe Hanson-Young, other greens or thePM and Labor parliamentarians, care about the lives lost. Lots of females, and some males, can turn on the water works at the drop of a hat. The PM asking the Senators to 'examine their consience' sounds very hallow to me. The simple fact is that Labor could have prevented most of the 800 deaths by reverting to the previous policy when Rudd was still PM and again after Gillard took over. They must have known their error then. They have no compassion.

Fancy Luciferase still peddling the myth that the previous policy did not stop the boats. Get real lad, look at the record. the boats stopped comming and started comming again when Rudd put the welcome mat out again. Do not try that push factor garbage with me. There were still ME illegals still living in Indonesia just waiting for the policy change.

Am now told the illegals do not destroy their passports, they mail them to friends and relos here so they can use them later to return to their original country after getting permanent residence here. Also it seems that most of the ones that drowned last week were Pakistanies, so when did Pakistan become war torn that people needed to flee from.