Shaggy what we need to do is carry the biggest stick on the block.

Sure nothing could make us invulnerable to the very big players, but a really big stick could make it easier to buy what we have, rather than try to take it by force. The application of force is very expensive, it is easier to print money if strong resistance is likely.

With the lesser players, who may be more numerous than us by far, the biggest stick would make anything but friendly relations not practical.

We are always going to have to rub a few faces in the dirt, regularly, to make the point that we will if necessary, get serious. Our patrol boats going where they like is just such a warning. It has obviously been observed by those it was meant to warn, & hated by the boat people advocates, due to it's effectiveness.

The real secret is not to manage change forced on you, but to initiate the changes you desire, with sufficient strength to enforce them.

Remember a PM who constantly reminded us we must become a part of ASIA and accept multi-cult-uralism. That was a large step in the asianiation of Australian culture.

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Hasbeen and others,
Just as an interesting sidelight now that the integrity of the "Service Providers" is coming into question now and the changing of the guard is about to occur with Wilson taking over.
Both the current provider of security services on MI and the Wilson group have between them over 800,000 workers around the world. Private armies, mercenaries, "Security consultants" whatever you want to call them but the job criteria from both for the "glamor and exciting" and "challenging" positions as security providers requires little more that a clean police record and an ability to get a child work card.
Police and/or military experience is looked on favorably.
Even a dolt of a ex prison guard can get a job.
The sub culture moronic mentality of these workers probably accounts for much of the tension in the detention camps.

Honourable Minister Morrison - Parliament House Caaanbra.

I am hereby offering my 44 foot ketch for the purposes of re locating the internees at Manus Island, Coonawarra, Darwin Airport, Wickham Point, Curtin (Derby) and others as required. I ask that each of these Irregular Arrivals be given some basic navigation skills - taught whilst still in the detention centre, as I can't do more than about 14 hrs straight on the helm so it would be nice to get a break on the voyage back.

I could do it for say about $5,000 per head and can only take 6 at a time per voyage. Considering it will take me around 30 years to get all these people back to where they came from...lets say somewhere on the southern coast of Java it will save the Federal government heaps in pensions apart from my old military service pension. Not to mention the $200,000 per minute it costs to operate the detention centres currently. It would also save on having to embarrass the poor sailors on Customs & RAN vessels and save on the repairs of laying them up for hull cracking repairs at HMAS Coonawarra. Old Pusser's mates of mine I served with who evidently (according to the media & the ADF Chiefs), have difficulty in adhering to international maritime borders e.g. couldn't find a bar girl with a fist full of $50's in Pat Pong Rd - or so it appears.

Minister Morrison I believe my plan has great merit, and I can send you my bank account details and pick up the first lot from Lombrum (my old home town by the way) and have them home, with loved ones and in no danger of being subject to the nasty nasty people on Manus back in time for the Hajj.

Cheers Cobber

Yours...etc Albie in Darwin. : )

I wonder if a boat load of white Brits illegally landed on a beach in the NT, whether we would be shunting them off to a caged concentration camp? Think not.

no WMDs in Iraq, no Osama in Afghanistan
in a pique of anger we kill a million, displace 4 million, misplace over a US$Trillion,
And blow them back into the Middle Ages.

For many generations, perhaps for all time, students of military history will look back in wonder and awe at our unequaled incompetence.

Viva Zion