Nicholsen is not only a lawyer and judge but the very epitome of all that is wrong with the legal profession. He gets an extravigent pension from my taxes and then bags me and our country. If I had his money I could afford to swan around the world big noting myself too.
With his money, he can leave the pension behind and relocate to another more freedom loving country.
Any suggestions? Keep yourselves nice!

Foxy,

I seem to remember Juliar crowing about sending back 1000 Sri Lankans and there was not a peep from you. Was it a different Sri Lanka then?

As for your silly little homily that you linked, it is quite clear that there is a small minority of people living with severe amnesia towards the nearly 1000 illegals arriving a week and the 1000 that perished at sea in the last year of labor's border protection disaster.

Some here should understand it is my, & my countries human right to defend my home, & my country.

It matters not if we are suffering an armed invasion, or an unarmed one, we are being invaded by people most of us don't want here, & we are perfectly within our rights to reject them, in what ever way is required, to keep them out.

Anyone who wants to become a citizen of the United Nations should apply to them. Anyone stupid enough to let them try to rule here should be locked up in a mental asylum, as they definitely are not of sound mind.

I refuse to be controlled by the most corrupt organisation this planet has ever spawned.

Get over it kids, this government is trying to do exactly what it was elected to do, & is going to succeed. The best thing they have going for them right now is this interference with them stopping illegal boat people. Keep it up, & watch their polls rise.

Wow...all you fellas are sounding a little rabid.

Whatcha reckon Scotty's gonna do with the 153 men, women and children he scooped up in Australia's contiguous zone and then floated out to the high seas?

Sri Lanka's not going to take them (apparently)

So clever Admiral Morrison (your hero) really isn't as clever as he - or you - thinks he is.

153 "humans" bobbing around on the high seas presided over by a jumped Immigration Minister with the ethics of a polecat.

And fancy Scotty being forced to actually admit these people exist...he must be frothing at the mouth. Scotty thinks why can't people just keep their noses out, it's all much easier for him to do a Sir Humphrey Appleby impersonation while keeping people disappeared.

Dear Shadow Minister,

I shouldn't be surprised at your attempt to
brush aside any newspaper articles that don't agree
with your political outlook or agenda. Even if
the article happens to be written by an experienced
Judge talking about his experiences and the Law.

Then you try to divert with your usual Liberal tactic
of blaming others for your problems.
Nothing new here.
You need to be reminded that -
This discussion - is about the current Government's actions.
And blaming others for their current behaviour - simply
won't wash.

The Age newspaper tells us that -
The Prime Minister states that while Sri Lanka may not
be an ideal society it is a "peaceful" country and that
"all of us should be grateful that the horrific civil
war is well and truly over."

These comments betray Mr Abbott's fundamental lack of
understanding about the principles underlying the UN
Refugee Convention. Mr Abbott implies that because
Sri Lanka is no longer at war, Sri Lankans don't need to seek
asylum in Australia.

But war and peace have no bearing on the validity of claims
made by asylum seekers under the Convention.

The Convention doesn't just apply to people fleeing or
displaced by war. It applies to all people who fear being
persecuted on human rights grounds, on the basis of their
race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular
social group or because of their political opinion.

To that end, whether their home country is at war or not is
entirely irrelevant to a person's claim for asylum.

Conditions may be "peaceful" in Sri Lanka but the fate that
awaits these people is highly uncertain.

To Australia's shame - immigration officials have made only the
most fleeting inquiries about the legitimacy or other wise
of the requests for protection. Four questions were asked
during interviews - conducted via video conference calls.
Only one of which asked why they sought protection.

Foxy
What about the rights of the Sri Lanka government to protect their country from
being divided up by the demands for a separate state by the Tamils.

The Tamils immigrated from India to Sri Lanka and after a couple of hundred years
decided they wanted to cut off a piece of Sri Lanka to form their own country.

They fought a 20year war with the Sri Lanka government with this aim.

Just who is the injured party here? The Tamils or the Sri lanka government.
Doesn’t look good for the future of multi-culturalism.
Some of these groups here will probably try to divide Australia up into different countries
too, eventually. Can you blame people for not wanting to import this kind of trouble into
Australia.