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Does offshore processing work?

Posted by: 2ue | 30 June, 2012 - 3:21 PM
Asylum seekers to be buried in Sydney and given a Sydney tour

George Newhouse represented families and the deceased from the asylum seeker boat which sank off Christmas Island. He tells John Stanley why he has abandoned his opposition to offshore processing.


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Political failure on asylum boats

123 rescued at sea from sinking asylum seeker vessel

The federal opposition and Greens have combined to defeat legislation in the Senate to legalises offshore processing of asylum seekers, as expected. It was defeated 39 votes to 29. Have our politicians failed us?

 

Abbott: how to solve asylum policy?

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott with 2UE's Jason Morrison

Federal MPs are claiming they will stay around into the winter break to find a solution to the asylum seeker problem. Jason Morrison with Tony Abbott on solving the asylum seeker policy problems.

Blog comments Your Say

  • ah yes john stanley still trying to restore the balance. trouble is john, not everyone is stupid

    herb gilham Sunday 1 July, 2012 - 10:00 AM

  • There is a simple way to stop the boats.
    1)Build an airstrip close to Lake Carnegie in W.A.

    2)Transport ALL people that have arrived by boat since the real refugees fled Vietnam to that location.

    3) Provide them with Temporary Protection Visas.

    4) Provide them with Housing (Tents as the U.N. does in Africa)

    5) Provide them with Food, water and clothing.

    6) Reassess their status and if they paid any money to country shop instead of joining the queue then their claims to refugee status are automatically rejected and they are flown home.

    7) If they can't or won't provide a country of birth they will stay in the camp indefinately!

    Problem solved all U.N. obligations observed.

    Would you as a Muslim Colonist want to have the gate firmly closed in front of you, I think not.

    Don't pay the Carbon Tax! Sunday 1 July, 2012 - 2:53 AM

  • It does not! Abbott is saying that because he feels he has to defend the Howard option with which he himself was associated. Gillard is saying that because she lacks the conviction of taking a principled position on this matter, like she was able to do with pricing of carbon.

    Terrence Sunday 1 July, 2012 - 12:10 AM

  • Sorry to say but the good old days are well and truly over for Australia! Because of this very damaging 5 years of this rotten Labor government. The deceiving, deceptive enemy within Australia!

    N.B. Disturbingly, we now have so many traitors, polarizing Aussiephobics with a deep-rooted hatred of Australia!

    This is very serious indeed! The complacent citizens must drop everything and go to the last ditch protest rallies in Sydney and Melbourne. Otherwise as far as I am concerned they deserve Labor's fraudulent global warming-carbon dioxide tax scam and Labor's very dubious illegal entry boat immigrants. We all have other things to do on Sundays but please, no petty excuses accepted! Just friggin do it for your kids sake, you good bloody Aussie patriots.

    P.S. Our heartfelt thanks to CATA who are outstanding Australians. May The Good Lord +Jesus Always Be With You. God Bless You.

    Mario Saturday 30 June, 2012 - 11:47 PM

  • FORMER foreign affairs minister Alexander Downer says Indonesia can be part of the asylum seeker solution and should not be allowed to get away with leaving the problem to Australia.

    SPEAKING at the Liberal Party federal council in Melbourne on Saturday, Mr Downer described himself as the father of the Pacific solution and said the Rudd/Gillard government should be condemned for opening Australia back up to people smugglers.

    He said the "tough but humane" Pacific solution saved hundreds of lives.

    "These people smugglers are defying all of our systems and it's incumbent on the Australian government to stop (it) or to maintain a system which ensures it does not happen," he told delegates.

    "We closed it down and the Labor Party, when it came to power ... opened it up, deliberately opened it up and deliberately abandoned that policy, and they should be condemned for being inhumane in abandoning that policy.

    NAURU WORKS!!! Saturday 30 June, 2012 - 5:18 PM

  • Idealism and reality are two different things. This bloke makes sense, but the LEGAL asylum seekers must be given priority.

    David T. Saturday 30 June, 2012 - 5:02 PM

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