Paul1405, did the illegals start coming by air in October 2013 ?
You really do have a problem with reality.

If I said they started coming by air in October 2007 would you accept that ?

Aaagghhhh, what a waste of time !

Abbott and co put themselves up as the guru's of boarder protection and the OLO 'Usual Suspects' did nothing but sing their praises. On this and many other policies, what a bunch of fraudsters this government has proven to be. Instead of being boarder protection guru's they have shown themselves to be total incompetents. Just take a look at the shambles boarder protection has become, both on the sea and in the air.

Paul, are you on your unreality pills again ?
If they can repeat the boats success with the planes what will you say then ?

Sorry, I get it now, you want them to fail that is why you think they failed.
Now I see !

take a look at the shambles boarder protection has become, both on the sea and in the air.
Paul1405,
I am looking & I don't see as much shambles as I saw three years ago. I also see a lot of Labor & Green cronies not doing their jobs to help solve the situation.

Bazz, I didn't help put these incompetent fools into government, no doubt you did, along with the rest of the OLO 'Usual Suspects' I can't be held in anyway responsible if you voted for these duds!

Indi <<I am looking & I don't see>> too right, you are always looking and not seeing, I do my best to point you in the right direction, but you keep thinking bad thoughts, like Abbott's a good bloke.! You are like Abbott and Morrison, while your so busy peering out the back door, ever vigilant for a handful of asylum seekers in a leaky boat, thousands of illegals are streaming in the front door on jumbo jets! What do you say to that?

You can't say you weren't told. The Greens have been warning you of the serious problems that the Howard government and others, including the Labor Party, have been creating with immigration. While focusing on boats for political reasons they have been ((purposely) missing the planes. They have another agenda that wants to see large numbers of unemployed!

You are right there, Paul, but how is Labor different? We had immigration high enough to give us a high of 2.2% population growth under Rudd. Both major parties are working for the same Big Business interests, and they want bigger markets, easy money from real estate speculation and the consequent big bank loans, and a flooded labour market to give them cheap, compliant labour that they don't have to train. Of course attention is being focused on the asylum seekers:

"One of the reasons why it’s so important to maintain that policy [stopping the boats] is that the more people think our borders are being controlled the more supportive they are in the long term of high levels of immigration. Australia needs a high level of immigration. I’m a high immigration man. I practiced that in government. And one of the ways that you maintain public support for that is to communicate to the Australian people a capacity to control our borders and to decide who and what people and when come to this country."

John Howard talking with Fran Kelly on the Radio National Breakfast program on Wednesday, 29 January 2014

On the other hand, asylum seeker numbers can snowball very quickly, as in Europe. According to Home Office figures, Britain had 499,000 asylum claims between 1997 and 2004, not counting dependants who arrived later. Of these, about 23% were found to be genuine, including after appeal, and relatively few of the failed asylum seekers could be deported. See

http://www.migrationwatchuk.org/briefing-paper/9.14