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Having failed as economic managers, will Labor now splurge to buy votes?
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Is the fact that illegal arrivals have been ommitted from news reports recently due to the fact that it has become such a regular occurence it is no longer noteworthy?
Or could pressure have been brought to bear not to report the flood of boats during this coming year?
I suspect the arrivals will increase, as the savvy people smugglers will anticipate that should this government not be re-elected, the laws will be tightened considerably in an effort to stem the flood, and thereby reduce their profits - hopefully to zero!
With an election on the horizon now it would be in Labour's interest to see this subject slip quietly behind every other issue, wouldn't it?
Let's face it, they have plenty of their other governing failures to explain away, and boat arrivals are a very emotive subject with so many persons on both sides of politics qualified to cast a vote.
I discount the Greens here, as their agenda is so narrowly focused, and I regard them as merely an annoyance, who represent a small minority, but have managed to obtain a disproportionate amount of power by aligning themselves to Labour. As Andrew Wilkie discovered, their reward for doing so has backfired on them somewhat.
Imagine Pauline Hanson is thinking - I told them so, and they wouldn't listen to me.