Abbott with his wisdom of NO made sure the boat people did not stop.
This problem could have solved years ago. But Abbott would not allow that to happen. So now we are saddled with a 288 million / day black hole that's a million every 5 minutes.

So what about the glossy pix on wall of NORFORCE HQ a few years ago, by the way whilst the Ruddinator was at the helm ?

Electronic whorehouse & others said "6 boats intercepted off Ashmore Reef..." that day...same PC3 Orion pass with pix uncropped showed 36 boats of foreign origins...SIEVS/fishing boats, and such in frame.

We have not been & are not getting the truth from any government whether under Howard/Rudd-Gizzard/Abbott.

The boats are still coming...we just don't have enough NORFORCE patrols on the ground or Customs/RAN at sea to monitor and report. Thus by way of paying Serco/G4S and foreign parties we have been exponentially losing that capacity to detect, monitor, and intercept and that is precisely why the Abbott government modus operandi is disinformation & by proxy - no information...divide and conquer ! Everyone on this weblog page has fallen to this ruse.

Be worried, very worried, all you bleeding hearts, as the least of our problems will be Islamisation, human rights abuses, etc...what is there not to understand ? Purely and plainly it will be foot and mouth and rabies coming ashore with the undetected landfall SIEV's.
But yes your lecturers and others at your chosen educational establishment, the great unwashed masses in the cities where the majority of votes will count next election will applaud you for your caring and humanist concerns...well done and pat yourselves on the back !... while a whole continent succumbs to the Hell Unleashed in the form of rabid wildlife and a decimated if not obliterated primary industry.

The forthcoming diaspora from the Syrian conflict is yet to happen...stay tuned.

Best bang for your taxpayer dollars would be drones over Indonesia and Timor/Indian/Arafura/Torres Strait with follow ups by M2 and a couple of belts of .50 cal.

Yes as I posted here on OLO a few years back...now I hear the loud footsteps of the old Chiefs & PO's Mess at HMAS Tarangau echoing the words from 40 years ago..." We (Australia) need to be careful & mindful of Indonesia...& so evidently it seems, not for purely military concerns either.

.......This problem could have solved years ago

That's a laugh, 579, the problem didn't exist until your holy one, Mr K Rudd woke up one morning with thought.

I just can't begin to imagine where we would be today had the voters not taken a punt on installing that dud bac in 07.

A hel of a lot better off I would suggest.

Albie Manton in Darwin,
Yes, M2s are the only answer.
This is a Muslim invasion nothing more or nothing less and the sooner the Australian (Christian) population realise it the sooner we can react in kind.
Get out of the UN Conventions. (None of them help us)
Turn the boats back at gunpoint.
Shoot them if they try to land illegally.
Sink them if necessary (They will soon learn}
I'm bloody sure I didn't fight wars for these people to invade my country,use my resources, take my jobs, usurp my religions, abuse my women and daughters,blight my suburbs with their violence and ethnic unrest.
My government, be it Rudd or Abbot, never asked me if I wanted these people here, in my land and I am bloody sure the 'first Australians' weren't asked either.

Yes chrisgaff1000, I feel for you guys who have risked your life to provide us with the peaceful existence we enjoy today.

Very thing you fought for is at risk simply because our law makers are too arranant to look around at other parts of the world where these mobs have not only refused to assimilate into their chosen communities, but they have tried to change those countries into their countries.

We must put a stop to these illegals entering, and we must also ban the Muslim religion from our country.

Failure to act on this will mean your colleagues who fought with you and paid the ultimate sacrifice did so in

This is Australia and there is no place here for this rubbish.

Butch,
Everything changes, nothing is forever.
The Australia I knew as a child no longer exists.
The secret is to control the change as much as you can, retain as much as you can of the good and seek the best in the new.
To resist change usually means it will overpower you totally.
Our future and its changes needs to be in the hands of competent people and this is where we lack as we possibly have the worst crop of politicians Australia has ever seen, and this has been the case for some time.
There are pressures to our north that cannot be ignored, maybe in the short term but they will overpower us eventually unless we learn to manage the change to our benefit.
Some wise and cool heads needed.
SD