"Is there any indication that the information in the weekly briefing will any less accurate than the daily briefings of the Labor government?"

Really? so why is the LNP doing it?

"Already the boat arrivals are half what they were under Juliar and Dudd, 8 in 16 days."

Before the election just over a week ago fewer arrivals was due to the weather, according to your mob, but now it's not? Perhaps PNG is working, not that you'd ever give it credit, Shal.

Poirot and others,
If the Christmas Island Administrator (I suppose that is upspeak for prison warden) isn't happy with his Minister running the show wouldn't it be the right thing to resign and leave his cushy salary and perks behind.
The government was elected to govern and it seems to me that we all, that is all, must fall in line and cop whatever happens until the next election when you get to have your say again.
Whatever Abbott does is his prerogative given to him by the majority of the population.
At least in this country those that voted for the other side get to stay alive and in the mix not like a lot of other left wing countries. It is called democracy.
You blokes lost the election. Cop is like men and move on. You will get another chance but I can tell you this from the inside by the time the next chance comes around the methodology for voting will be so changed minorities will have no say in the outcome and the Labor Party will never again be the government.

>>Also how many are foreign agents sent by Iran and other countries.<<

Let's just think about that one for a second: what foreign power is going to take their expensive, highly trained, difficult-to-replace intelligence operatives and stick them on some leaky boat to either drown on the high seas or get locked up indefinitely in detention while extensive security checks are performed, when they could take the far simpler and more practical option of providing them with false documents and sticking them on a plane?

Yeah, that sounds incredibly plausible. Your fear of boat people has obviously grown so disproportionate to the threat they actually pose that it has overwhelmed your ability to think rationally. Calm down, take a deep breath, go for a long a walk and stop reading the Tele.

>>It's a common illegal immigration advocates tactic to demand *proof*,then, when it is presented just shrug it off.<<

It's a common and very transparent tactic of people who invent their evidence as they go along - or accept it on hearsay from people with the same prejudices as themselves - to provide some spurious and far-fetched reason as to why they can't produce any data instead of just admitting they haven't got any.

I don't know why they haven't got any. It's not hard to find:

http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/BN/2012-2013/AustGovAssistRefugees

http://www.immi.gov.au/media/fact-sheets/98services.htm

>>The lefty garbage on threads like this is so puerile, it is making OLO hardly worth reading. I know you don't delete comment other than for abuse, but some of this stuff is abusing all intelligence.<<

If left-leaning discussions are puerile and abusive of intelligence, what on earth can you say about comments that don't try to advance the discussion, challenge the substance of anybody's arguments or offer any insight or wit? Comments which merely consist of some whiny sook's bunch of sour grapes because not everyone agrees with him about everything.

Cheers,

Tony

Tony Lavis what a self centered heap of male cow dung!
Are you saying only your views and those that share them should post here.
Cr&p!
Right now the Minister who once demanded daily updates on boat arrivals is telling us he will not give them.
The week old government is on the nose.
And that will be seen to be true in just months.

Before the election just over a week ago fewer arrivals was due to the weather, according to your mob, but now it's not?
Luciferase,
That's precisely how it it is. We've got 5-10 kn winds whereas there were 30 kn average a month ago.
The dinghies are on the move again along the south coast of PNG but the $3.-litre fuel price is dampening the show.

Good grief, Indy, it takes time to get here too. Let go of it occasionally.

I object to boats being turned back by naval force, always have, always will. "Processing" asylum claims on the open ocean is not what Australians want, I believe, regardless of who won the election.