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This article in today's Australian seems to suggest that these people were mostly from Lebanon.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news...-1226729603696
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Thanks.
This article in today's Australian seems to suggest that these people were mostly from Lebanon.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news...-1226729603696
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This article in today's Australian seems to suggest that these people were mostly from Lebanon.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news...-1226729603696
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The boat had apparently foundered in Indonesian waters yet Australian authorities were phoned begging them to rescue the children
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Those videos are very sad but the people responsible for the tragedy are:
- The people smugglers who for a fee put those poor souls on the unseaworthy boat.
- The former government - who dismantled the pacific solution.
- The would-be migrants who encouraged by 1 and 2 above, adopted this high risk strategy to obtain Australian residence through the back door.
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There is no "useful" discussion being had here...
I'm withdrawing.... " the only bigger fool than the person who knows everything is the one who argues with him"
You can have this one...
I'm withdrawing.... " the only bigger fool than the person who knows everything is the one who argues with him"
You can have this one...
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No... .... The "argument" that asylum seekers are causing people with cancer to die ... PMSL... ![ROFL](https://britishexpats.com/forum/images/smilies/rofl.gif)
I can see no point In encouraging responses to such thinly veiled narrow minded bigotry... Hopefully you will finish patting yourselves on the back and the thread will simply fall off the page...
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I can see no point In encouraging responses to such thinly veiled narrow minded bigotry... Hopefully you will finish patting yourselves on the back and the thread will simply fall off the page...
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It's called debate. Everyone has an opinion and yours is no better or worse than anyone else's. That doesn't make anyone else a fool.
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No... .... The "argument" that asylum seekers are causing people with cancer to die ... PMSL... ![ROFL](https://britishexpats.com/forum/images/smilies/rofl.gif)
I can see no point In encouraging responses to such thinly veiled narrow minded bigotry... Hopefully you will finish patting yourselves on the back and the thread will simply fall off the page...
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I can see no point In encouraging responses to such thinly veiled narrow minded bigotry... Hopefully you will finish patting yourselves on the back and the thread will simply fall off the page...
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It must be embarrassing to the Indonesian government to learn that it's military transported the would-be migrants to the quayside.
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I'm bored and flying home today so I'm going to comment
I've seen first hand what people risk when they try to move to a 'better life' in the form of a smashed up body on the railway at Eurotunnel. I don't think I could ever condemn these people for trying. They've been fed lies about what life is like in 'the new world' to relieve them of their cash, and are the only victims in all this. Not for one minute am I saying open all doors, but I do find the lack of humility towards them distasteful. Perhaps we should do what the yanks do, attack the problem at source, bomb the shit out of them and force a regime change.
I've seen first hand what people risk when they try to move to a 'better life' in the form of a smashed up body on the railway at Eurotunnel. I don't think I could ever condemn these people for trying. They've been fed lies about what life is like in 'the new world' to relieve them of their cash, and are the only victims in all this. Not for one minute am I saying open all doors, but I do find the lack of humility towards them distasteful. Perhaps we should do what the yanks do, attack the problem at source, bomb the shit out of them and force a regime change.
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I'm bored and flying home today so I'm going to comment
I've seen first hand what people risk when they try to move to a 'better life' in the form of a smashed up body on the railway at Eurotunnel. I don't think I could ever condemn these people for trying. They've been fed lies about what life is like in 'the new world' to relieve them of their cash, and are the only victims in all this. Not for one minute am I saying open all doors, but I do find the lack of humility towards them distasteful. Perhaps we should do what the yanks do, attack the problem at source, bomb the shit out of them and force a regime change.
I've seen first hand what people risk when they try to move to a 'better life' in the form of a smashed up body on the railway at Eurotunnel. I don't think I could ever condemn these people for trying. They've been fed lies about what life is like in 'the new world' to relieve them of their cash, and are the only victims in all this. Not for one minute am I saying open all doors, but I do find the lack of humility towards them distasteful. Perhaps we should do what the yanks do, attack the problem at source, bomb the shit out of them and force a regime change.
If Indonesia made people smuggling a capital offence it would stop the trade in it's tracks.
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No matter how people view the practice of others getting on a boat to secure a visa to Australia, I think everyone who has posted so far on this thread is sad at the tragic human loss.
If Indonesia made people smuggling a capital offence it would stop the trade in it's tracks.
If Indonesia made people smuggling a capital offence it would stop the trade in it's tracks.
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yep amazing that dealing with drugs can attract the death penalty yet people smugglers get away lightly
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It's a bit ironic to see people let into Australia under part of its migration scheme (skill, family and special eligibility streams) debating the rights and wrongs of people who might be let into Australia under the humanitarian part of the migration scheme.
It's also ironic to think back on white settlement beginning with the original 160,000+ boat people sent from 1788 to 1868. I bet a lot of these were dodgier than most of the displaced Lebanese too and there was no processing offshore before they were let in either.
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It's also ironic to think back on white settlement beginning with the original 160,000+ boat people sent from 1788 to 1868. I bet a lot of these were dodgier than most of the displaced Lebanese too and there was no processing offshore before they were let in either.
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It's a bit ironic to see people let into Australia under part of its migration scheme (skill, family and special eligibility streams) debating the rights and wrongs of people who might be let into Australia under the humanitarian part of the migration scheme.
It's also ironic to think back on white settlement beginning with the original 160,000+ boat people sent from 1788 to 1868. I bet a lot of these were dodgier than most of the displaced Lebanese too and there was no processing offshore before they were let in either.![Big Grin](https://britishexpats.com/forum/images/smilies/biggrin.gif)
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It's also ironic to think back on white settlement beginning with the original 160,000+ boat people sent from 1788 to 1868. I bet a lot of these were dodgier than most of the displaced Lebanese too and there was no processing offshore before they were let in either.
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Re white settlement in 1788 - if it wasn't for these settlers Australia wouldn't even exist as it is today - so that's also a moot point.
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