Foxy,

I see the feathers have stuck in your craw.

I said in the last week, and most boats have had less than 100 passengers. Since the election there have been less boat arrivals than were occurring every week recently under Labor's failed policy.

Since being sworn in and putting in place the new polices the boats have been tapering off.

P,

You are lying again. Scott Morrison only spoke to the media a few times a month even when the boats were arriving at the rate of more than one a day. I challenge you to show where his press statements even vaguely matched the number of boats.

The person doing the shrieking is the ex minister for illegal immigration Chris Bowen.

Foxy - The FACT that only 10 to 15% of refugees were checked properly is a well documented statistic.

It came out around the same time as Labor was spreading the BS about refugees only being responsible for 4 or less crimes which I provided information that showed that was wrong by 100's.

Foxy tell me if I am wrong but in truth no stirring, I see true hate in some things said to you and others here.
Too a belief that nothing you say is true.
You are aware of my thoughts on boat people, and I understand you disagree.
But in all my time here I never hated.
Oh true dislike was there, strangely not at those you would think.
SM and his few mates are not on my Christmas list, but not too on the avoid one.
Let me tell you Foxy a truth about boat people.
I understand we are 47th in the world in taking in refugees, but much better based on population numbers.
In the 1970,s like it or not, we both gave refuge to many and too saw we gained a culture other than our own.
Hard, harsh even, but people fear the enclaves, the determination to be different in todays migrant/refugee intake.
And more important than anything.
We think/know if we do not stop the boats our country opens its arms, then we see hundreds of thousands of refugees arrive every year.
I must be sounding xenophobic by now, but Foxy, one day we will be told how much it costs and how much our welfare bill to keep these folk for near decades after arrival costs.
Abbott not telling us how many is a crime but not putting an end to them is too.

No boats for three days today and countimg

Dear SM,

I see more of the same from you, piled higher
and deeper. You've certainly got it down to a
fine art. As for feathers and craw?
Harry Truman put it so well:

"I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see
anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise.
We should all get together and make a country
in which everybody can eat turkey whenever they please."

Dear Philip,

Well documented stats are easily checked.
Where did you get yours from?
Show us.

Dear Belly,

You're not alone in your concerns about
boat people. I remember an reading about a
well known writer who had your fears a few
decades ago and his walking into the Legend Cafe
in Bourke Street, Melbourne, standing beneath
the Sinbad murals of Leonard French, ordering a
"cappa-cheeno." Minutes later he'd learned
two new words from the man behind the hellishly
steaming espresso machine - "prego" and "grazie."
This was a beginning for him. Each of us can only
go from our own experiences, I guess. We've sorted
things out in the past. Hopefully, we'll be able to
sort them out again. Of course it involves taking
some considerable risks - but almost every human
advance is based on experiment, innovation, and
adventure.

Dear Chris,

I guess the boats that sink - don't count in the
tally.

chrisgaff1000 - Sorry BUT there was QUOTE "Another vessel carrying 78 people was intercepted overnight Sunday, but doesn't count as a fourth boat because it was detected outside the weekly reporting period."

This sounds like a dodgy way of calculating them, so theoretically it should show in next weeks figures.