Je ne suis pas Poirot.

ROFL. Who's the hunter and who's the hunted, Bazz, and what's the number of arrivals got to do with anything?

Philip S, it's you being kept a mushroom, not the smugglers.

Philip S,
In my street a house was renovated to a high standard. New high security fences and the place landscaped. We all thought it was going on the market and would give us an insight into the value of our own homes. How wrong were we.
New tenants arrived. We later found that they were Afghans. There was a father and mother, grand mother x 2 grandfather,1 15 year old girl with one child and pregnant 1 boy about 18 and 4 other children from 2 up to about 10.
They were accompanied by officers from the housing department and an organization called Settlement Services.
Within 2 days the housed was completely fitted out with ne high end furniture right up to huge flat screen TV and surround sound music systems.
The whole family was fitted out with Nike and Adidas clothing and the kids given new bikes.
Within a week the family had a new Toyota people mover mini bus and the boy an after market Honda Sports car.
Apparently they dispensed with the need for these people to have license tests like the ordinary Australian.
When some of the locals started to question the free gifts they were told to mind their own business the gifts were from Settlement Services and not the government.
The fact that Settlement Services is funded by the government is lost in the semantics of the situation.
So Philip S please don't say these refugees do it tough.
Within a month the boy had teamed up with other Afghan kids and they were roaming the streets at night armed with cane knives.
Inside 12 months the complaints were so loud about the unfairness when there were pensioners starving in the same street the department moved them overnight to another city.

Bazz,

"Poirot, you are pathetic !

Seems there it not a tactical brain amongst the lot of you.
Don't you think they may be trying to hide the location of the ships involved ?

First rule of interception; hide your own location !"

Care to explain why Morrison yodelled long and loud from the rooftops every time a boat arrived?

Care to explain why he made a career of bringing attention to boat arrivals...and now seeks to suppress information about them?

Could it be that now he is the minister responsible, and having no strategy to "stop the boats" (despite using it as propaganda to grab votes from naive voters) the only tactic he can come up with is to censor and/or control information pertaining to arrivals?

First rule of a shifty government; hide your intentions.

This development is not surprising - just a return to their old form.

Downer once admitted on ABC Radio that the boats didn't actually stop under Howard - they kept coming but some were turned around and the information was deliberately kept from the press to make it seem that they had stopped.

It's also not an invasion by a hostile force that warrants military intelligence but considering that the purpose of conservative politicians is to keep people alarmed, again they are back on track.

Abbott also promised that he would spend his first week as PM in aboriginal territory - a lie?

Now they have set the ground rules for opposition - they can cop what they have been dishing out for the last 6 years.

Lucese said;
ROFL. Who's the hunter and who's the hunted, Bazz, and what's the number of arrivals got to do with anything?

Don't understand what this is about, what are you saying ?

Poirot asked;
Care to explain why Morrison yodelled long and loud from the rooftops every time a boat arrived?

Because he did not understand what was happening.
He has now employed an officer with tactical knowledge to manage that sort of thing.

It is the difference between professionals and amateurs.