Do any of you posters know just how bad some of these vessels really are? The RAN & Customs patrol boats spend more time on the slipways at Larrakeyah getting cracks welded up in their hulls than time in the water and actually intercepting irregular arrivals.
The Crown government (under Fuhrer Howard, then Rudd and Gillard and now Fuhrer Abbott) have wound back maintenance programmes, to the barest minimums.

Patrols put up by NOFARCE are few and far between, and barely manned at minimum levels for the time they actually spend on the ground doing surveillance, chasing gun runners, drug smugglers, wildlife smugglers and others to boot. There was even a possibility a few years back, around the time of the "Great Intervention" or
'OPERATION REACH AROUND' as it was known, of 'çontracting out' the patrols to private companies, who were set up with the gear needed.

Reichs Chancellor Morrison and crew saying the RAN couldn't navigate is nothing more than using our ADF personnel as a scapegoats. It could have all been stopped dead in its tracks in the early 1980's when a patrol boat fired a burst of .50 cal over the bows of an offending SIEV. Fuhrer Hawke was furious and said skipper was keel-hauled and spanked most vigorously!

Herr Morrison is telling us great big porkies by saying the boats are'nt coming, for why why why would we need to build a 3,500 pax centre closer to Momote airport at Mokerang on Los Negros in Manus Island?

And again I apologise to you all for the side-tracking of this thread.

There's a very easy solution to all of the legal kerfuffle, amalgamate the laws of each state and territory into one easy to use set, but still using all the relevant precedents decided, and common law applicable. Abolish the state parliaments and vamp up the local governments giving them greater powers in each jurisdiction. It could be included in a new constitution along with a better human rights being enshrined and not appended like it has been dealt with.

I hear the squeals already from my learned colleagues !

The Carmody appointment reminds me of when Bjelke-Petersen appointed Albert Field as a National replacement for a deceased ALP Senator in order to help topple the Whitlam Government and their later disgraced politically appointed Police Commissioner exposed by the Fitzgerald enquiry.

Queensland in particular has a history of appointing stooges to high office to entrench their power, as well their tendency not to comply with the Separation of Power requirements.

Individual,

I posted "Allegedly the sea rescue equipment was not kept in working order and that the Government had a 'duty of care' to have it ready for instant use; if this is the case then the status of those needing assistance is irrelevant."

What don't you understand about "allegedly"?

What don't you understand about "allegedly"?
is Mise,
allegedly is a rather obscure but convenient phrase to stir trouble yet it offers a handy, albeit hypocritical way out of the argument. Mostly religous connivers employ that tactic. Come to think of it, why don't the asylum seekers head straight for Lourdes, we could do with one of your miracles on that scene.

Stumped at Lourdes.