Foxy I can tell you, from the horses mouth, what most of our sailors on the ships dealing with these invaders think.

They reckon even our little patrol boats are much better gun boats than tug boats. They are all wanting to use them to repel this invasion, rather than do Rudd's towing duty, buying him a few Muslim western Sydney votes.

Of course, having suffered lost conditions, in an attempt to make up the billion dollars Rudd/Gillard cut from the defense budget, most of them would like to shove Rudd/Gillard on those old leaky boats, before repelling, or sinking, them. I gather they mostly don't mind too much which of those it is.

Don't worry folks, it's just that Hasbeen can't help his "political correctness".

Come on ONE UNDER GOD, of course one of our great tenets of a free society - 'the freedom to associate', is writ large, very large indeed.

However, the old 'Consorting Act' was designed as an instrument for police to generally prohibit convicted criminals gathering together for a common cause. That 'cause' was to organise and plan more crime and pandemonium to be occasioned upon our hapless society.

Naturally, if a bunch of crooks were gathering together for a funeral, or an AA meeting or if they had a reasonable excuse to do so, then detectives wouldn't pinch 'em. It's simply common sense is all.

Dear Hassie,

This isn't about saving lives of stopping the boats.
This isn't about anything of any substance. What this
is about is political resonance. The Coalition's
message has been - Labor is abrogating Australia's
Sovereignty. There is a crisis on our borders and it's
time to put the gown-ups back in the Lodge to deal with
a 'national emergency.' That message got them elected
because it resonated with so many people's fears of
the old chest-nut - the invaders from "up North."
Why consider points of substance when you can chest-bump
and play the voters for mugs. Now the military is being
turned on the invaders in leaky boats lurking over the
border and our Prime Minister has a granite jaw and
gunboat. And look at what's happened to the traditional
chain of command. Impressive!

http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/07/25/military-reshuffle-abbotts-operation-sovereign-borders/?wpmp_switcher=mobile

That message got them elected because it resonated with so many people
Foxy,
I'm trying to understand how you people think. The boat peopled invasion of Australia at our expense is indeed a great concern to those who respect their own country hence the many voters who consulted their conscience supporting a more competenent Goverment than what we had in the past six years.
People who support selling out their own country are nothing short of traitors with an evil mind.

Foxy, "This isn't about saving lives of stopping the boats"

The electorate voted overwhelmingly to stop the boats.

Foxy, "This isn't about anything of any substance. What this
is about is political resonance"

Say what?!

Foxy, "The Coalition's message has been - Labor is abrogating Australia's Sovereignty. There is a crisis on our borders and it's
time to put the gown-ups back in the Lodge to deal with
a 'national emergency.'"

Yes, that is right. However you should never have put national emergency in inverted commas because it is real and other countries are facing the same economic, social and security problems from economic migrants.