Hasbeen,

What's the betting that the Government will lose?

is Mise,
The Government will win because it's not Labor for a start & my guess ist that lawyer will need t go into hiding soon once his identity becomes known. I don't think Australians will tolerate such low-life traitor parasites. He'll regret getting involved if the conversations on our bus are anything to go by.

He's not hiding yet and was on TV yestermorn stating his very reasonable case.

Apologies for the cut n paste that follows...“In other words the last 30 years have not been a battle between two different political ideologies but a Mafia family dispute over how best to rob the rest of us for the benefit of the whole gang.”

enpassant.com.au/2014/06/04/labor-is-not-the-answer/

When we see the creeping fascism taking place that is Australian politics over the past years, especially the quasi-dictatorship of Herr Howard, and more recently being ramped up by Herr Bott Fly and cronies, it there we see the erosion of human rights at their essence. It is here we see the disregard for the basic tenets of our 'democracy' here in Australia and in several other Westminster based governments, notably Canada.

Let us not forget the roots of the Liberal Party in Australia, a Nationalist/Socialist platform if ever there was one. I do not for one moment advocate the Labor movement or ALP, for it too is nothing more than a "Another Liberal Party" in its current guise.

This from the Australian Dictionary of Biography in 2000, regarding Wilfred Kent Hughes... In April 1923 Kent Hughes returned to Australia and joined his father's publishing firm. Standing for the Legislative Assembly as a Progressive Nationalist, he won the seat of Kew in 1927; he was to retain it until 1949. He was appointed secretary to Sir William McPherson's cabinet in November 1928 but, with his friend (Sir) Robert Menzies, resigned in July 1929. Rebels against the conservative establishment and the mediocrity of State politics, in 1930 Kent Hughes and Menzies formed the Young Nationalist Organisation which became a major force in Victorian non-Labor politics.

Going further back...from Rev'd John Wests UNION AMONG THE COLONIES (1854) "Thus a strong government, however desireable for the repression of wrong, can only be consistent with freedom when it derives its authorisation, and when it acts as the trustee, and in the presence of, many!"

Albie Manton in Darwin,
Ah well, you make all crystal clear why these boatpeople who went to sea at their own risk perished.
It's all Australia's fault ! Of course we should deplete our coffers to compensate people from other countries, what else is our money for if not that ? I'm sure most Australian will jump at the chance of paying for these creeps of lawyers because as per usual the money won't go where it's claimed to be for. At least it stays in australian (lawyers) hands. After all, these vermin are home-grown.

you could argue that Rudd/Gillard layed out the red carpet leading to the deaths. While Australia should share no blame the incompetency and deceitfulness of the previous Government certainly sent the totally wrong message to those coming here illegally. If I was being invited to a country where welfare was far more than I could earn it would of been tempting.