cont'd ...

Ooops - sorry for the typo. Here's the link again:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-28189608

Dear Shadow Minister,

How to deal with asylum seekers will remain a complex
issue no matter who wins the election.

Just to jog a few memories here's a link that sums
up its past history:

http://www.refugeecouncil.org.au/r/spn/131002-SPN-bg.pdf

Foxy - A link from August 13, 2012 is not very relevant now as in most countries the population are against what the so called leaders of that country are doing about the growing numbers of so called refugees.

Your second link 404 - "Page not found"

Too many economic refugees, and totally ungrateful people who for example in Germany demanded money not food.

There are lots of real refugees but sorting the trash from the treasure is a virtually impossible task.

As Fox says,

Memories: Rudd 2007-10, Galah'd 2010-13 and Rudd 2013,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0MHRSFz6FM

Dear Philip,

Of course there will always be people who will
abuse the system. But in this discussion the
30,000 or so referred to by the Courier Mail
were already assessed as being genuine refugees.
What Mr Shorten is proposing regarding these
particular refugees is apparently old news - and
therefore the Courier Mail is not representing the
truth. John Howard had already promised then a path
towards permanent residency. Then many changes
occurred in government. Things got delayed and more
hard line policies were put in place. If this was
not an election year - this matter would not have
arisen. But it is an election year - and finger-
pointing is a game that's being played.

The "Page not found," link was due to a typo.
It was rectified - you may want to read it
as well as the other link I cited.

The point that I am trying to make is that
this being an election year both leaders of the
two major parties will milk the "fear card" for
all its worth. Pointing out the "faults" of their
opponents be it regarding asylum seekers, unions,
medicare, health, education, tax cuts for the
big end of town and anything else they can
resurrect.

The challenge for voters is to look
beyond the spin (including from the newspapers
that support them) and decide which party they
think will be good for their families, and the
nation. And what kind of society they want Australia
to be.

I personally am still trying to decide who to vote
for. With that in mind I shall be watching Mr
Turnbull on "Q and A" tonight. I trust it may help
me make up my mind.

Paul,

We all know that you are unhappy with any newspaper that does not submit its articles for approval by the labor/green ministry of truth as does the SMH and ABC.

As for your niece, has she been able to decide her gender by herself without the help from the labor/green ministry of love?

Foxy,

The rolling disaster of the asylum seeker crisis was caused by the idiot Rudd dismantling the Pacific solution in spite of promising before the election not to, the most significant cock ups were the dismantling of off shore processing, the removal of TPVs, and the refusal to turn back boats.

Now in spite of Shorten claiming to maintain the coalition's successful policies already he is promising to eliminate the TPVs, stop boat turnbacks, and has a near majority of labor MPs wanting to stop off shore processing. Essentially we can expect the same chaos as under Juliar.