tickfen wrote on Nov 18
th, 2010 at 5:55pm:
Tony Abbott says: The Gillard government hasn’t just lost control of our borders; it seems to have lost control of our detention centres too. This week’s riot at Villawood is a sign of the pressure on detention centres overwhelmed by the influx of illegal arrivals by boat.
The Howard government put in place policies that stopped the boats. The Rudd/Gillard government changed those policies and the boats immediately started to come again. Since August 2008, there have now been 189 boats with 9131 illegal arrivals. Since the re-election of the Gillard government, there have been 35 boats with 1782 illegal arrivals.
Before the election, the prime minister said that she’d establish a processing centre on East Timor. Since the election, it’s become obvious that the East Timorese centre will never be built. Before the election, the prime minister denied plans to expand onshore detention centres. Since the election, the government has announced plans for 3000 additional detention places.
Opening more beds for illegal arrivals won’t solve the problem. Settling illegally-arrived families in former military homes on the leafy outskirts of Adelaide won’t stop the boats. In fact, it will give the people smugglers picture post cards to distribute to potential customers.
The only way to stop the boats is to deny people smugglers a product to sell. That means reintroducing temporary protection visas, rigorous offshore processing and, where it can be done safely, turning boats around.
Last week’s court decision that the government’s asylum seeker processing lacked procedural fairness adds more confusion to this chaos. On this, as on so many other issues, the government has gone from bad to worse in the time since the prime minister herself announced that the government had “lost its way”.
Without a drastic change of policy, boat arrivals will continue and, quite possibly, substantially increase. If there was one step that the prime minister could take to prove that she’s serious about stopping the boats, it would be to pick up the phone to the president of Nauru. Nauru has a processing centre built with Australian taxpayers’ money that could be reopened within weeks.
Reopening Nauru would take the pressure off other detention centres and send the clearest possible message to people smugglers and their potential customers that they might not ever get to Australia.
Not reopening Nauru means that the boats will keep coming, the detention centres will keep filling and the costs will keep mounting. More detention centres will have to be opened but the government refuses to say which disused or underutilised military bases are now ear-marked to house illegal arrivals. It’s another Gillard mess that she has no clear plan to fix.
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/yoursay/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/up_the_creek_without_a_paddle_on_boats/
If only our MSM were this honest!
It sounds to me that not only has Gillard lost control of our borders and detention facilities, she and her red cheerleaders have taken to accusing Australians of being racist when they dare question her capacity to do the job she herself said she would do if elected...when she vowed she would take a harsh stance on boats, though clearly has not.
Funny, why didn't they call her racist when she first said she too would be cracking down on boats pre-election?
Because they knew their flaccid ALP too well, this and also knew she and the ALP never had any intention of keeping their pre-electroal sweetener promise after the election, so naturally, weren't too worried about about her pre-election spruke ,threats concerning stopping the boats before hand.
Meaning ALP's own supporters are OK with their government lying through their teeth, so long as it meets their own selfish requirements, ...ethics aside.
Lovely party, for a lovely people who lack Australian values.
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