From: Adam Flinton 

John Beckett wrote:

> Adam Flinton  wrote in message
> news::
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>>What I find so ironic wrt recent Australian politics is the "turn em
>>back at the beaches" view wrt immigrants/asylum seekers. I'll bet all
>>the aborigines are going "damn 200 years too late" >
>>I'm just waiting for an Aussie ship to go down & no other ships to come
>>to their aid "just in case" there are some illegals on board.
>
>
> Well, yes - that's an embarassment too. For the record, our PM would point
> out that there are no known cases where Australia has actually not rescued
> people from a sinking ship.
>

Ohhh stretching the point beyond the bounds of the reasonable...Norwegian
ship does it's "duty" & picks up people from a sinking ship
& what happened? So instead of the Oz navy it was a nice bunch of
chunky jumper wearers &.......

Moral: If sailing near Australia, ignore sinking ships. The sharks'll make
it a fairly quick death anyway.

> If "the end justifies the means", the turn-them-back policy has been a
> resounding success because it has reduced the number of boats setting off
> in attempt to make illegal landings. It's an ugly problem. I sure would
> try to get to a better country if I were in some of the situations of the
> boat people.
>

You have a large empty country settled by illegal aliens (as the aborigines
might argue). How did Howard/Howard's ancestors get to Oz?



Adam

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