ABC Still the most TRUSTED source of News in Australia and the most Reached. Sky News and the Herald Sun rank as the least trusted and have far less reach. It's why the LNP, Murdoch and the IPA have a quid pro quo arrangement to destroy the ABC and have been actively pursuing that goal for the past decade, more than ever before. The ABC defends Democracy in Australia by attempting to "keep the bastards honest" no matter which party governs. Only the LNP is decidedly against the ABC and as a result Democracy in Australia is threatened and gradually diminished.
Peter Dutton — the boy who cried 'boats!'
PETER DUTTON |
Dutton has warned of an armada of boats many times.
One of his reasons for not accepting the NZ Government’s refugee resettlement offer, at a cost of billions of dollars and massive human misery, was that it would restart the boats. Yet when the offer was accepted, no boats arrived.
Former PM Scott Morrison and Dutton warned of an armada of boats when the Medevac Bill was passed.
But most Australians would be surprised that while Dutton was staring out to sea and warning of boats, Australia experienced our biggest ever labour trafficking scam abusing the asylum system.
This scam involved around 100,000 people being organised to arrive by plane, mostly on tourist visas.
What Dutton doesn’t understand is that it is far easier and cheaper to exploit the asylum system by trafficking people on aeroplanes.
As a result of Dutton’s negligence, we now have almost 30,000 asylum seekers at the primary stage and another 37,000 at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
The majority of them are being refused protection. Consequently, there are another 31,000 who have been refused at both stages but remain in the community without any support or work rights.
Hardly any are being removed because Australian Border Force (ABF) doesn’t have the resources for the task — just think about how much ABF spent trying to remove the Nadeslingam family and multiply that by many thousands.
For those who have been refused asylum, former Agriculture Minister David Littleproud proposed an amnesty. That was because the scam mainly supplied cheap labour to farms. Farmers generally do not like employing people without work rights — it's illegal.
Littleproud’s amnesty was quickly shot down by former Attorney-General Michaelia Cash who, without a hint of embarrassment, said:
“An amnesty would send a dangerous message that it is okay to flout our strong visa and migration rules, principles that this Government has worked incredibly hard over a period of time to secure.”
Apparently, totally ignoring the trafficking scam was how these strong visa rules would be enforced.
Liberal Leader Peter Dutton is warning of a ‘looming disaster’ of boat arrivals.
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