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Armchair_Politician Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 26347 Gender:	Tony Burke claims people smuggling trade "broken" Sep 2^nd, 2013 at 6:43pm Anything for a headline in the final days of the campaign, eh Phoney Tony? Doesn't matter if it ain't true in the least, or that it's approaching the wet season up north... http://bigpondnews.com/articles/TopStories/2013/09/02/People-smuggling_trade_bro...
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Rider Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 2669 OnTheRoad Gender:	Re: Tony Burke claims people smuggling trade "broken" Reply #1 - Sep 2^nd, 2013 at 8:43pm Geez, aren't we lucky the lads from Labor have done all the heavy lifting on this one and all that the coalition will have to do is tidy up the edges, complete the paper work and do the filing....NOT!
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Swagman Gold Member Offline Beware of cheap imitations...... Posts: 15095 Illawarra NSW Gender:	Re: Tony Burke claims people smuggling trade "broken" Reply #2 - Sep 2^nd, 2013 at 8:53pm Nice of him to highlight the fact that Rudd07 totally dropped the ball and stuffed up on border protection 5 minutes from the election....
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Armchair_Politician Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 26347 Gender:	Re: Tony Burke claims people smuggling trade "broken" Reply #3 - Sep 3^rd, 2013 at 6:25am You could almost predict Labor claiming this now. They desperately need a good headline less than a week til the election. They know this is a big election issue and so they want to be able to say they solved it. What a farce!
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aquascoot Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 35158 Gender:	Re: Tony Burke claims people smuggling trade "broken" Reply #4 - Sep 3^rd, 2013 at 6:44am he's more annoying than plibosek. i didnt think that was possible
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RightSadFred Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 2220 Gender:	Re: Tony Burke claims people smuggling trade "broken" Reply #5 - Sep 3^rd, 2013 at 7:00am Armchair_Politician It is a rather pathetic claim even if it was true, so I broke something, lived in denial, suddenly realised how much of a cock up it was, then I spent over a year trying to fix it ???? Sounds like a crack whore making it through rehab. Except the ALP has yet to make amends.
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De-registered User Gold Member Offline Posts: 1029	Re: Tony Burke claims people smuggling trade "broken" Reply #6 - Sep 3^rd, 2013 at 7:58am Burke will say anything, there's an election on next Saturday
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John Smith Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 75162 Gender:	Re: Tony Burke claims people smuggling trade "broken" Reply #7 - Sep 3^rd, 2013 at 8:35am from 4200 one month to 1500 the next month .... yep, I'd say that it looks like it's working. It was never going to stop everything suddenly. Numbers have been declining steadily and will continue to do so.
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RightSadFred Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 2220 Gender:	Re: Tony Burke claims people smuggling trade "broken" Reply #8 - Sep 3^rd, 2013 at 8:39am John Smith Even if it was true, its all a bit late. They needed to get the numbers down to where Howard had them and achieve that about a year ago.
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Re: Tony Burke claims people smuggling trade "broken"
Reply #9 - Sep 3^rd, 2013 at 8:44am

John Smith wrote on Sep 3^rd, 2013 at 8:35am:

from 4200 one month to 1500 the next month .... yep, I'd say that it looks like it's working.

It was never going to stop everything suddenly. Numbers have been declining steadily and will continue to do so.

Just maybe you're attributing any reduction in illegals to the wrong person, don't you think these illegals and the people smugglers know that the election is more than likely going to see a change?

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Innocent bystander Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 4220 Gender:	Re: Tony Burke claims people smuggling trade "broken" Reply #10 - Sep 3^rd, 2013 at 9:04am aquascoot wrote on Sep 3^rd, 2013 at 6:44am: he's more annoying than plibosek. i didnt think that was possible Pliberserk?, wasn't she raped by Tony Abbott?
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Reply #11 - Sep 3^rd, 2013 at 9:11am

Innocent bystander wrote on Sep 3^rd, 2013 at 9:04am:

aquascoot wrote on Sep 3^rd, 2013 at 6:44am:

he's more annoying than plibosek. i didnt think that was possible Wink

Pliberserk?, wasn't she raped by Tony Abbott?

No that was her drug dealing husband trying to convince her that he's changed from a drug addict to a sex addict....

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Reply #12 - Sep 3^rd, 2013 at 9:13am

Hilarious, I suppose the people hailing the reduction in asylum seeker numbers due to the actions of Tony Burke and the PNG "solution" are the same people who said that when Howards policy regime was dismantled that the sudden and dramatic rise in boat people had nothing to do wiv any change in govt policies and was just a coincidence and push factors? Roll Eyes

Seriously, how do you morons reconcile your contradictory positions without twisting yourselves into pretzels of idiot confusion? You must erect frigging firewalls between your ears.

Oh and PS still waiting protests on Parliament hill for the thousands dead, much more than Howard ever achieved and protesting policies harsher than anything Howard ever implemented.

The moral flexibility and convictions of convenience of the left sicken me. Bunch of duplicitous clowns.

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True Colours Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 2837 Gender:	Re: Tony Burke claims people smuggling trade "broken" Reply #13 - Sep 3^rd, 2013 at 9:15am Only 1,585 asylum seekers arrived by boat in August, compared with 4,236 in July, when Rudd announced the PNG deal.
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Reply #14 - Sep 3^rd, 2013 at 9:16am

Datalife wrote on Sep 3^rd, 2013 at 9:13am:

Hilarious, I suppose the people hailing the reduction in asylum seeker numbers due to the actions of Tony Burke and the PNG "solution" are the same people who said that when Howards policy regime was dismantled that the sudden and dramatic rise in boat people had nothing to do wiv any change in govt policies and was just a coincidence and push factors? Roll Eyes

Seriously, how do you morons reconcile your contradictory positions without twisting yourselves into pretzels of idiot confusion? You must erect frigging firewalls between your ears.

Oh and PS still waiting protests on Parliament hill for the thousands dead, much more than Howard ever achieved and protesting policies harsher than anything Howard ever implemented.

The moral flexibility and convictions of convenience of the left sicken me. Bunch of duplicitous clowns.

Just bizarre isn't it?, its OK to kill boat people, as long as you are not a Liberal.

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