Dnarever wrote on Feb 9
th, 2014 at 10:30pm:
[quote author=chicken_lipsforme link=1391836204/123#123 date=1391948472]
You support Abbott doing exactly what he categorically denied he would do about 6 or 8 weeks ago.
He was talking about no tow backs to Indonesia you mean.
He isn't towing them to France.
And he isn't towing them back into Indonesian ports either, just to the boundary where Indonesian water meets international water.
The policy remains consistent and has not changed since it was introduced months before the election, and that's what's important.
The policy works and that's what's really important.
No boats have been 'hidden' as you stated.
All boats have been accounted for and reported about in a timely fashion.
The world did not end because the government conducted a weekly media meeting.
It wasn't all that long ago anyway under Labor that the majority of the media stopped reporting the arrival of smugglers boats with the obvious exception of radio station 2GB which still reported daily arrivals, and the silence was deafening at the time.
Even the Labor governments published statistics of boat arrivals on the internet was six months behind until last September, and the silence was deafening.
Don't fret, the filthy smugglers boats are exactly where they should be.
Either back in Indonesia, or lying on the bottom.
If all you have left is to argue semantics, or try to misrepresent the PM's words to attempt to score a scabby cheap point instead of making a real point about the policy then I know Abbott is on the right track.
Suck it up princess.
His policy works.
And that's what really matters.
Clearly not what he meant or in fact said, he obviously meant towing them back to Indonesian waters.
He said that turning them around from Australian waters was what they would do.
This means that the intention was to tow them nowhere.
With the incursions into Indonesian waters that we can only assume has been part of the tow back process they obviously have taken them back into Indonesian territory a clear serious, deliberate and malicious breach of Indonesia's sovereignty. They not only accidentally entered Indonesian waters they had a purpose in doing it which was clearly opposed by Indonesia.