Poirot,
I know full well what the cartoonist was saying. I merely retorted with exposing your hypocrisy which constantly evolves around weak attempts to ridicule others yet never once offering a solution.

Do you think the immigration department officials are fools?
Suseonline,
No, but the previous federal Government & all it's supporters were & now we're faced with sorting out those fools' mess.

Susie,
You have been around OLO long enough to know it has all been established years ago,(well before the Tampa incident), that the illegals were flying to Malaysia and then by boat to Indonesia. Either on false docs and bribing officials. Then paying far, far more than the commercial fare to gate crash Aus. They destroy their docs they have used thus far and are coached on what to tell our immigration officials. It is too difficult to check their stories in detail so they are let in and there is difficulty in establishing their person identities. You well know all this so don't try and make out it is something new. No bona fide person would pay far more to go on a leaky boat when they can fly directly to Aus from Malaysia.

It is all a con and you know it, we are being duped.

Tony, I noticed that rache, Paul and Susie are now maintaining anyone objecting to the illegals are racist. If they were Poms I would object as well and I also think we let Kiwis in too easily.

So much for a "no surprises government."
So far it's been full of surprises and the
score settling has been unashamed. Targets
have been thus far:
senior public servants, scientists, climate
change bodies, public health agencies, the board
of the National Broadband Network, academic researchers,
and the list goes on. We're going to see bitter
battles over culture, the humanities and science.
Hang onto your seat belts folks it's going to be a
bumpy ride.

Foxy,

You are silent on the policy backflips of the two hopefuls for the Labor leadership.

That is different you would assert.

Still, it must be comforting to believe that all of the good people are on one side of politics and the other is devoid of talent, principle and concern for what sort of Australia will be inherited by our grandchildren.

But wait a bit, the culturally cringing Left don't believe that young Aussie couples should be having children.

They say that Australia should throw open the gates to 'solve' the population problems of the Third World. It is all part of the diversity-we-have-to-have. That policy has been rejected by the electorate, but the Left still want to foist it on an unwilling public come hell or high water.

It is too difficult to check their stories
Banjo,
That I can verify personally. It is amazing though how some of our Customs people have honed their skills in detecting those who are genuine & those who aren't. All I can say I was pretty impressed. Unfortunately, some integrity-devoid australian Lawyers have also learnt how to exploit and, backed by the cries of the do-gooder brigade & the UN hangers-on-make-everyone-else-foot-the-bill crowd, the rest of us & our children are paying for the mess.