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From Scott Morrison

The arrival of the latest boat means that over 40,000 people have now arrived by boat under Labor’s failed border protection regime.

That’s more than the population of Kalgoorlie-Boulder (30,900), Wodonga (31,600), Gladstone (32,100), Queanbeyan (35,900) and Tamworth (36,200).

So far this financial year, over 20,000 people have arrived on 320 boats. This compares with just 25 people on three boats in the final year that the Howard Government’s policies were in place.

Labor’s failure to protect our borders worsens by the day – and alongside its failure to control the Budget, is this Government’s greatest policy failure.

It is a failure that has cost lives, damaged our country’s reputation, cost over $6.6 billion in Budget blowouts and resulted in tens of thousands of people dumped into the community.

Escaping persecution or Sunday cruise?

The arrival of 66 “illegal immigrants” who brazenly sailed into Geralton Port WA last week might have been part of a blockbuster movie production directed by that senate buffoon, Greens member Sara Hanson-Mung Bean.

44 days at sea, men, women, some pregnant, and children dressed in clean, mostly white casual attire stepped onto Australian soil parroting their lines and feigning their intended destination as new Zealand. Only the seriously deranged would dare entertain that.

Their appearance and conviviality might have been an immigration promo-ad showcasing prosperous and happy immigrant families debarking the Manly ferry at Sydney’s Circular Quay after a fulfilling day of taxpayer-funded multiculturalism.

Published images of their transport, the MV Deutsche Bank, poses many questions.  Things like how the boat rides in the water, general state of the craft, deck space minus deckhouse structure and how many people can be counted standing on free deck space.

According to the manufacturer, a division of Solas Marine Lanka, this tuna boat was built in 2004 under contract from Deutsche Bank for Tsunami aid to Sri Lanka.

The Press Council - pedantic twits?

Some time ago the Press Council advised journalists not to use the term, “illegal immigrants” when referring to illegal immigrants. In keeping with the nauseating PC brigade, the council seeks to sanitise the facts for hankie-wringer consumption.

Surely there has been enough information published to return truth to the meaning of “illegal.”

Passports and personal identification papers floating upon the ocean, lies about country of origine, not to mention threats of self harm and property damage to facilities and outrageous demands are meaningless to the dead wood pretenders at the council.

Furthermore, the Labor government that sought to control the entire media in order to also change the meaning of words and sanitise any comment critical of their abysmal governance does not know what its various departments are doing. As they say, “one picture is worth a thousand words.” Observe the government’s use of “legal.” GC.Ed.@L.

600 illegal boat arrivals under Labor

600 illegal boats have now arrived since Labor abolished John Howard’s proven border protection policies in 2008. This record of dysfunction is one of the single greatest policy failings of the Rudd-Gillard government. Labor’s record of failure is clear: •         600 boats carrying over 35,000 people •         record populations in immigration detention •         riots, protests and unrest in detention centres •         tens of thousands of people dumped into the community •         $6.6 billion in budget blowouts and growing •         damage to Australia’s reputation And it is a failure that worsens by the day, with Labor too weak and divided to stand-up to the people smugglers.

Remember Lynton Crosby? You will now!

You can call it poetic justice or serendipity. Australian Labor got the Scottish dirt-monger John McTernin as strategist and Britain’s Tory; David Cameron got the Australian loose cannon Lynton Crosby as his campaign guru.

McTernin and Crosby seem to have a similar modus operandi. While McTernin escapes the deep poo of Australian politics, Crosby has jumped, both feet, into the British political dung-hole and comes up seriously on the nose.

Crosby will be better remembered here as John Howard’s advisor who took them both into the sea in the “children overboard” affair, a matter later found to be a myth.

As McTernin is our problem for now, Crosby is proving a liability to Cameron with his outspoken opinions. ‘Lynton Crosby, has been accused of calling Boris Johnson's aides "f**kwits".’ Crosby helped organise two election victories for Johnson in London where he told Johnson ‘to concentrate on traditional Tory voters instead of  “f**king Muslims”.’ Oh, dear me Lynton, too much VB!

However, others share Crosby’s sentiments toward Muslims. A former Conservative Peer Shreela Flather, Britain’s first female Asian peer agrees the party should not court Muslim votes because they are “all on benefits”. ‘I don’t condone swearing, but Lynton is right to say it is pointless for the Conservatives to chase Muslim votes. They are all on benefits and all vote Labour,’ said Baroness Flather.

So, how will those eligible among the 30,000 that crashed our borders vote?

Could this attitude be a precursor to a new political thinking among politicians in the West?

GC. Ed.

Read more:www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

Rooms with harbour views only

There are too many do-gooders and sticky-beaks sneaking around Nauru trying to make brownie-points for their causes. We were told that water pours through the roof, soaking beds. Thom says,"we could see the water leaking under the tents and all the bedding getting wet,..." The bedding is on top of camp stretchers.

Also, I think our ADF personnel serving in foreign theatres, Afghanistan, in particular would disagree with Thom's assessment of "harsh" and "very hot conditions." Would accommodation at the "Four Seasons" suit Thom? What a goose!

On ABC 7:30. Dr Thom, how do you rate the conditions in Nauru?

 

I got an e-mail last night - it's a worry!

Geoff,

The latest two illegal boats to have arrived in Australia, brings the total number of illegal arrivals to more than 30,000 people under the Rudd/Gillard government.

This is more illegal arrivals than the entire populations of centres like Warrnambool (29,286), the Blue Mountains (29,770), Albany (26,644). Mount Gambier (25,200), Alice Springs (24,210) Devonport (22,770) or Mount Isa (20,569).

More than half of these illegal arrivals have occurred during this year alone and Labor’s failure on our borders is worsening by the month, with an average of 2,000 now turning up every month.

The 30,000 people that have arrived illegally by boat under Labor compares to less than 300 during the last six years of the Howard government. That’s more than a one hundred fold increase.

It is clear that Labor doesn’t have a plan to stop the boats, just like they don’t have a plan to grow the economy.

It’s hard to have confidence in a government when it doesn’t keep the borders safe and secure. Labor just can’t stop the boats.

Welcome to Hotel Australia

A surge in boat arrivals since Labor came to power in 2007 has seen almost 30,000 people claim asylum in that time, prompting a flurry of policy changes - including funnelling potential refugees into the community on "Bridging Visa Es", which afford asylum-seekers work rights while they wait for a decision on their status.

Obligatory reading:www.theaustralian.com.au