579 - Quote "You know as well as i do these people congregate in the jungles."

Your powers of imagination are boundless when it comes to refugees.

As SPQR stated and with his link the truth of the matter.

You supply links to people hiding in jungles, there are plenty of stories of them staying in hotels and being ferried to wharves on buses, sometimes even being escorted by police or the military.
Also arriving at airports (sure someone would have seen them there).

In the past your comments had a slight degree of believability but on this thread you appear to have lost the plot.

Good to see Morrison's obfuscatory weekly briefings are going to cease! That's great, because completely out of sight is completely out of mind, the way the many keepers of the flame like it here on OLO. The government calculates that that is the way the people want it too, which would be tragic were it true.

So far, this government is an abomination on all fronts, with many more promises yet to be broken, with the usual apologists for it here seeing no problem at all in its secretiveness and furtive actions.

Give me a hung parliament any day, with accountable and transparent government where it all hangs out.

Politicians represent the people and all information about policies come into the gambit of right to know. Australia is a democracy.

Those who hold no interest can always choose to stop reading the papers or watching the news. It really is that simple.

There are still many who want to keep politicians accountable.

Luciface,

Happy new year.

As there have been no boat arrivals for 4 weeks, (unlike the daily arrivals under labor) what is there to talk about?

"This week nothing happened again."

We are all tired of labor's continual promises to stop the boats via a "regional solution" and doing stuff all.

It now appears we've "accidentally" invaded Indonesia's sovereignty.
C'mon you usual apologists for this cowboy outfit, tell us why that's OK.

Actually, save yourselves the keystrokes. I've stopped reading the BS on OLO and just drop by to advise of the truth from time to time. What a moribund forum it has become.

Lucyface,

Nearly 5 weeks with no boat arrivals.

Labor negotiated authorization for Australian vessels to enter Indonesian water was given originally for the RAN to act as a taxi service, but it still stands.

It is now perfectly clear that while the Indonesians are playing lip service to the public sentiment, they are perfectly happy for Abbott to turn the boats around, and they only comment when it appears in the media. This is justification why silence is justified for the operation, and why Labor was such a dismal failure.