It is said that people get the governments they deserve. We all get 1 vote every 3 years (federal elections). There are only 2 parties with a cigarette paper between them (as far as bastardry and incompetence goes), that can form government, and only about 5% of voters can cause a swap between the two.

With a system like that, what can you expect!

Suse: the rubbish you flung into the ring has nothing to do with the topic.

Tttbn, how about re structuring parliament as a sort of "council of elders" all members should be over 55, have run their own business and have been born in Australia.

Just how far have we sunk when the lefties on here want to protect the illegals in our midst.

Getting their knickers in a knot because some criminals may be caught in a street sweep, or a royal commission into union activities says it all.

God help us.

Loudmouth,

"But it struck me after a while that, with the increased immigration from the Mediterranean on the one hand, and that fact that many Aboriginal people were pretty pale on the other, how could any copper tell who was Italian or Greek and who was Aboriginal ? ..."

Lol! - coz people of indigenous decent look exactly like Italians and Greeks.

"Coppers" must have been a little dim back then : )

"So, what junior clerk dreamed up this one ?"

Too funny - Abbott goes to all the trouble of paramilitarising public servants, spiffing them up in sinister uniforms - costing over 6 million dollars - insinuates the ABF into Victoria policing - the brief went to Dutton's office "twice".

And as the lamest of lame excuses, Abbott reckons it's all down to a poorly worded briefing....a very very poorly worded briefing.

We know where this came from - it wasn't a surprise. Abbott and his terror hysteria agenda had been priming this for quite a while.

It must get right up his nose that social media shoved it right back in the can.

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Also noting that Cambodia has decided to nix taking anymore refugees - after collecting $40 million (+$15 million = $55 million) for taking 4.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/31/cambodia-has-no-plans-to-take-more-nauru-refugees-in-55m-australia-deal?CMP=soc_567

Good one, Tones!

Has been,

You might be missing the point: anybody in the business would realise immediately that it wasn't going to work: imagine Indian and Chinese-origin citizens being asked for their visa or in fact, any papers at all. As citizens, like any other citizen, why should they have to carry them ? Nobody even has to have a driver's licence on them if they're not actually driving.

It's simply too idiotic to bother getting enraged about. I hope heads roll. Oops ! Sorry, I meant nothing derogatory about the pseudo-left's new ISIS friends.

Joe

More Labour/Greens simply lead to Greece like conditions. The masses sucking on the public purse will continue to vote for them, unions will still pocket workers money, youth unemployment will be approaching 50% and the illegal immigration traders will benefit greatly. Then people will be dumb enough to ask why. Just look at the intelligence of our Senate now.