Regarding my comment above on the "alleged terrorist plot".

It appears that Abbott had AFP permission to leak evidence on it under privilege?

For political advantage - on a trying day in parliament.

There's a message there for all of us.

Poirot,

Alleged is correct. Your shock and awe would be better directed at this AND the critical weaknesses in immigration policy and administration that allowed the alleged offenders into the country in the first place,

<"THE two men accused of plotting a terrorist attack in Sydney this week had plans to stab people in the kidneys and necks, Prime Minister Tony Abbott has told Federal Parliament.

Police arrested Omar al-Kutobi, 24, and Mohammad Kiad, 25, on Tuesday afternoon charging them with plotting to commit a terrorist attack.

The two will remain in custody for at least a month after their bail appeal was withdrawn.

Police allege they found knives, a homemade Islamic State flag and a video declaration of intent in the men's possession.

Mr Abbott said ASIO and the Federal Police had briefed him on the video.

"Kneeling before the death cult flag with a knife in his hand and a machete before him, one of those arrested said this: 'I swear to almighty Allah we will carry out the first implementation for the soldiers of the caliphate in Australia'," he said.

"He went on to say, 'I swear to almighty Allah, blonde people, there is no room for blame between you and us. We only are you, stabbing the kidneys and striking the necks'.

"I don't think it would be possible to witness uglier fanaticism than this - monstrous extremism than this - and I regret to say it is now present in our country.">

http://tinyurl.com/nyflhtc

A prominent US Think Tank has described 'Our Tone' as the most incompetent leader of any industrialised democracy. That is saying something when you consider the plethora of incompertent leaders in the industrialised democracies. Like the proverbial Our Tone has floated to the top of the cesspool of incompetency, well done Tone!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2949840/Is-Tony-Abbott-incompetent-leader-industrialised-democracy-Prominent-American-think-tank-gives-scathing-review-PM-

Paul 1405,

LOL, stale, scurrilous stuff. That link was posted earlier. Not the stuff that any worthwhile group would put their names to.

Do they even know where Australia is on the map?

Malcolm Fraser, Professorial Fellow at University of Melbourne
Enough is enough. The government had the report on November 11 last year. It has tabled it on the last possible day. It is now clear that the attacks made on the AHRC, especially by senior ministers, has been designed to make it easier for the government to ignore the AHRC’s report.

The government’s response is a disgrace. It is based on a lie. It claims to have saved lives by stopping the boats and that the trauma inflicted on children by detaining them, is a small price to pay. It deliberately chose an inhumane way of stopping the boats.
Lawyers have spoken out against the mandatory detention of children following the release of a “deeply shocking” report by the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)
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Claire Hammerton, spokesperson for Australian Lawyers for Human Rights, said the report revealed that the Australian government was engaged in “systematic child abuse” It borders on torture.

Cloaked in secrecy we are not allowed to know what is going on.
This is why Morrison got moved out of the firing line.
Abbott has had this report since November. We need a royal commission.

Whilst I was not anywhere near convinced by the Human Right's Commissioner's response to the questioning of the journalists yesterday regarding why the report wasn't presented last October, this really is incidental.

What is plain now, or ought be plain to everyone, is that the mainstream politicians who lead the coalition and the alp are, as I and others have said for years, filthy little child abusers.

To adopt a policy of Human Rights and Child abuse to discourage people coming by boat is fallacious. There are a variety of legitimate ways that the Australian guvment could have spared these Asylum Seekers another perilous journey, as it is plain the the Indonesians don't want them.

However, to digress, if people are serious about the Bali 9 drug smugglers, why not ask the Canberra rock spiders how many (if any) Indonesian children they have mentally destroyed and or still have locked up like animals?

Prisoner exchanges can work sometimes.

And to digress further, and with Foxy particularly in mind, had the alp stripped the church of its legal right not to be sued, and had they radically altered the compensation rules, perhaps we would have come closer to a more just result. But no, they only allowed it to really go so far as public humiliation and then in the aftermath they roll out a new rock spider church premier and draw these pitiful fools back unto their bosom for votes.

Can you not see how twisted and evil this scum is? And the sad part is, the majority of ignorant Australians keep voting for them.