Lester1, you may want to consult an optometrist.
One of your eyes sees brown and the other black.

Yeh Lester,

By making comments like that you are only feeding the fantasies of the Left.

Dear Shocker,

We get it.

According to you, in this country -
"Australian" means white.
Everybody else has to hyphenate.

Going back to the thread..

There have always been serious deficiencies in the assessment of migrants. Immigration has never had the staff and intel to cope with a large influx of migrants, including the economic migrants who use people smugglers as their travel agents. Consider what happened immediately after WW2 and after Vietnam, but the continually records being set in immigration over the years guaranteed the sieve was ineffective through lack of skilled resources in Immigration.

How else did Australia end up with organised crime like the Mafia or 5T? What about the ethnic gangs taking over the bikies? They can't even ride a bike, but they are good at thuggery and to them life is very cheap. Now there are the feared 'Odessa' (Russian) Mafia with its highly educated bosses, flat flexible structure to take advantage of opportunity, and horrendous violence.

What has changed to make things far worse is the introduction of the US 'Spoils System' where the incoming government puts its own in senior positions (and the recipients of patronage bring their own in as well); the weakening of central controls over recruitment, promotion and reclassifications; and the inevitable favouritism and advancement of the less competent through affirmative action directives.

Did I mention corporatisation?

There are many serious risks that are not being controlled effectively and sometimes because the inherent risks and consequences were deliberately underrated to suit the demands of the minister of the day.

Nether side of politics and the lunar Greens as well, would want any real independent scrutiny of immigration policy and administration. Better to play this as an aberration.

There remain many talented and ethical people in the Senior Executive Service of the federal public service, but every day they are being frustrated (or displaced), or are leaving of their own accord to protect their sanity.

My, "but the continually records being set in immigration over the years guaranteed the sieve was ineffective through lack of skilled resources in Immigration"

should be,

"but the continually HIGHER records being set in immigration over the years guaranteed the sieve was ineffective through lack of skilled resources in Immigration"

Well boys and girls, it will be interesting to see what, if anything, the smh can come up with from their 'thousands of pages of documents' they claim to have in relation to immigration fraud.

The Labor opposition has not uttered a word as yet. Surely the former immigration ministers have some knowledge of the frauds. The smh claimed reports were made to the government (Labor) and a couple of PM briefings. Could it be that the frauds took place under Labor watch and the opposition is now hoping it will all go away.

I reckon it is a fair bet that a number of DIAC staff had to work this weekend preparing the urgent report for the Minister. If smh has it right, a number of staff will lose their jobs and probably face charges along with some outsiders. Visas of some migrants may also be cancelled. I suspect the Minister will want answers to a number of questions by tomorrow morning and I do not think he will be in a good mood.