DeadVim

Bloody boat people, I couldn't get down Adelaide Street this morning for all the boat people ... they insist on bringing the boats too, have you noticed that?

I mean, the pavements barely cope with the pedestrians and the Lyrca Louts without adding a nautical element to proceedings.

If they like their boats so much then why don't they confine them to the environment to which they were designed to function?

If I get cut up by another freaking dingy then I'll rip 'em a new porthole.

Zambia

Must be an election coming.

Shellfish

Through a barb wire fence into the Kruger National Park, an area the size of Wales, to waiting man eaters and finally, should they make it that far - into a country of 50million people - many of whom don't take to kindly having to compete with someone for work especially if that someone is willing to work for half the wages just to get the chance to earn anything at all to send back to their families. It's not uncommon to hear of people from other countries usually Zim, Malawi, Mozambique being thrown from trains purely because their skin tone gives away where they are from.

The other side of the coin, is a white South African guy who was granted asylum in Canada for racial discrimination - he had been stabbed six times (I think) because he must have looked like was worth robbing (being white) - much to the S.African govts chagrin

ABCDiamond

Nope, just an extra few months on Christmas Island, or Villawood, or ???, before being let in a bit later on.

bcworld

Exactly, however the public is supposed to believe what creature said is actually the case - pure electioneering.

JackTheLad

I was just saying to that Pauline Hanson woman the other day about all these bloody boat people.

But then she said she had to go get a flight to the UK, and you're all stuffed

JTL

keel

It seems we have very polarised opinion about refugees.

A$350 million to keep them on Chrismas Island etc but nobody seems bothered how much they generate to the comunity when they get here. Does anyone have any figures about how much tax revenue is raised by these new workers?

I'll bet they contribute, as a group, a lot more than it cost for them to be kept here.

Keel

sonlymewalter

Especially if they speak English and have the skills required to get jobs and be self sufficient.

Given the difficulty for English speaking skilled migrants to find work, I wouldn't count on it.

Bazza Boy

I believe the illegal immigration issue is probably the best example of how naive and incompetent this Labor government is - followed closely by their farcical insulation scheme.

Why did Howard create the Pacific solution? A method that not only eased the strain on Christmas Island, but also created jobs and generated copious wealth for independent island nations.

Rudd is an experienced diplomat, and hence a good front man. But that's all he is. Scratch the surface and look what's behind him. We were warned before the election, 70% of his cabinet are ex radical union activists - look at Garrett, and the left wing clown that's replaced him.

The sooner this country returns to Liberal policy the better. God willing, our wait won't be too long.

iamthecreaturefromuranus

Open door policy then?. Let everybody and anybody come because they will "contribute"?

NedKelly

I doubt that very much, most live on Centrelink payments.

NedKelly

The only English they speak is "I am wanting please Centrelink"

MartinLuther

Jeez that's a real pain. How can one drive a car down the pavement with all those boats blocking the way? It's not like they pay rego. The police should get rid of them immediately rather than picking on innocent motorists.

DeadVim

They are a scorge, wouldn't touch them with a bargepole.

MartinLuther

Not someone you want to bring along to a night out with the buoys