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Former Australian SAS Soldier smeared by Labor publicity division in attempt to influence Canning By Election result.
Canning candidate Captain Andrew Hastie’s rage at Fairfax smear over Taliban war crime accusations
Samantha Maiden
The Sunday Telegraph
22/8/2015
A FORMER SAS soldier chosen to fight the WA Canning by-election for Prime Minister Tony Abbott has delivered an extraordinary speech responding to allegations that soldiers under his command cut off the hands of dead Taliban soldiers.
Captain Andrew Hastie, 32, has revealed in his first public speech to the WA Liberal Party that he ordered the investigation into his own troops and was personally cleared of any wrongdoing.
“I have now left the Defence Force with a clean slate, having defended our nation against the Taliban and Daesh,” he said.
“I am now taking the skills I learned in the army and if elected will use them to be the best representative for the people of Canning.
“I have not lived my life behind a desk pushing paper and talking about the concepts of freedom and democracy. I have acted. I have put my life on the line for this country and for that freedom.’’
He also accused Labor of “not having our backs’’ when he was fighting in the Middle East, an issue that prompted him to enter politics.
For the first time, Captain Hastie also revealed that not only was nowhere near an incident, he was in the helicopter.
Confronting allegations splashed across Fairfax newspapers today that officers under his command are still being investigated, he also criticised the length of the Defence investigation.
The allegations were published in Melbourne’s The Age newspaper under the headline “Question of conduct’’ in a report that noted Captain Hastie was not involved in the incident or present when it occurred.
It is alleged that the hands of three Taliban fighters were cut off for the purpose of fingerprinting in 2013.
“I can say with great confidence that those soldiers involved directly with the incident were acting in what they believed to be the appropriate process laid out by defence.”
Captain Hastie acknowledged that mistakes sometimes happen in a “high-pressure war zone where people are trying to kill you’’.
“It is true as reported that I wasn’t at the scene of the incident when it happened. I was in fact above and away in a helicopter orbiting overhead,’’ he said.
“When I became aware, I did what I was required to do and promptly reported the incident up the chain of command.
“I can say with great confidence that those soldiers involved directly with the incident were acting in what they believed to be the appropriate process laid out by defence.
“As the then Defence Force chief David Hurley said ‘We were engaged in a high intensity, complex and dangerous battle’. It is critical when you fight the Taliban that you gather evidence and do what you can to investigate ... the identification of your enemy.’’
“He’s fought for our country in the field. He will fight for Canning in Parliament.”
Captain Hastie also revealed that an inquiry had found “my actions at the time were appropriate’’.
“All but one of the troops was cleared,’’ he said.
“The investigation was launched after the issues was raised up the chain of command and it was raised by me.
“The investigation into this single soldier has taken two years and four months and it hasn’t been finalised. As reported, there are differing views as to whether the incident constituted a breach of the rules of war.
“People who serve, put their lives on the line to protect our country. I have always stood up and fought hard to represent the troops I lead and if that requires ruffling feathers, I have done that and I will do that again now.
“Out of concern for the soldier involved, I am disappointed that my candidacy has brought this issue to the forefront of media attention.
“The least we can do for that honourable soldier is to ensure that the investigation into the incident is done fully and quickly.
“This issue has cast a shadow for almost two and a half years over this man’s life. I believe the Defence Force has a duty of care to finalise its investigation more quickly.”
The Prime Minister said he was proud Captain Hastie had chosen to extend his public service into politics.
“He’s fought for our country in the field. He will fight for Canning in Parliament,’’ Mr Abbott said.
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Opinion Polls tell us that the majority of Australian Voters support a Political Party, the Australian Labor Party, that has PROMISED to make border protection an "option"
and to INCREASE the number of "immigrants" who say that they are obliged, by their Religious belief's, to destroy us.
Under the Rudd / Gillard Green Loon / Rudd Labor Governments Australia's Defence spending was wound back to that of the 1930's
Why would ANY Political Party in Australia want Australia to be defenceless against such people?
This is what former Labor leader Mark Latham was prepared to say publicly, one can only imagine what his Comrades say privately about Australia's Finest when they think Australian's are not listening.
Andrew Bolt discusses the Labor smear on his show HERE
Samantha Maiden
The Sunday Telegraph
22/8/2015
A FORMER SAS soldier chosen to fight the WA Canning by-election for Prime Minister Tony Abbott has delivered an extraordinary speech responding to allegations that soldiers under his command cut off the hands of dead Taliban soldiers.
Captain Andrew Hastie, 32, has revealed in his first public speech to the WA Liberal Party that he ordered the investigation into his own troops and was personally cleared of any wrongdoing.
“I have now left the Defence Force with a clean slate, having defended our nation against the Taliban and Daesh,” he said.
“I am now taking the skills I learned in the army and if elected will use them to be the best representative for the people of Canning.
“I have not lived my life behind a desk pushing paper and talking about the concepts of freedom and democracy. I have acted. I have put my life on the line for this country and for that freedom.’’
He also accused Labor of “not having our backs’’ when he was fighting in the Middle East, an issue that prompted him to enter politics.
For the first time, Captain Hastie also revealed that not only was nowhere near an incident, he was in the helicopter.
Confronting allegations splashed across Fairfax newspapers today that officers under his command are still being investigated, he also criticised the length of the Defence investigation.
The allegations were published in Melbourne’s The Age newspaper under the headline “Question of conduct’’ in a report that noted Captain Hastie was not involved in the incident or present when it occurred.
It is alleged that the hands of three Taliban fighters were cut off for the purpose of fingerprinting in 2013.
“I can say with great confidence that those soldiers involved directly with the incident were acting in what they believed to be the appropriate process laid out by defence.”
Captain Hastie acknowledged that mistakes sometimes happen in a “high-pressure war zone where people are trying to kill you’’.
“It is true as reported that I wasn’t at the scene of the incident when it happened. I was in fact above and away in a helicopter orbiting overhead,’’ he said.
“When I became aware, I did what I was required to do and promptly reported the incident up the chain of command.
“I can say with great confidence that those soldiers involved directly with the incident were acting in what they believed to be the appropriate process laid out by defence.
“As the then Defence Force chief David Hurley said ‘We were engaged in a high intensity, complex and dangerous battle’. It is critical when you fight the Taliban that you gather evidence and do what you can to investigate ... the identification of your enemy.’’
“He’s fought for our country in the field. He will fight for Canning in Parliament.”
Captain Hastie also revealed that an inquiry had found “my actions at the time were appropriate’’.
“All but one of the troops was cleared,’’ he said.
“The investigation was launched after the issues was raised up the chain of command and it was raised by me.
“The investigation into this single soldier has taken two years and four months and it hasn’t been finalised. As reported, there are differing views as to whether the incident constituted a breach of the rules of war.
“People who serve, put their lives on the line to protect our country. I have always stood up and fought hard to represent the troops I lead and if that requires ruffling feathers, I have done that and I will do that again now.
“Out of concern for the soldier involved, I am disappointed that my candidacy has brought this issue to the forefront of media attention.
“The least we can do for that honourable soldier is to ensure that the investigation into the incident is done fully and quickly.
“This issue has cast a shadow for almost two and a half years over this man’s life. I believe the Defence Force has a duty of care to finalise its investigation more quickly.”
The Prime Minister said he was proud Captain Hastie had chosen to extend his public service into politics.
“He’s fought for our country in the field. He will fight for Canning in Parliament,’’ Mr Abbott said.
Two Comments on above Daily Telegraph story
"I'm a retired senior RAAF Officer. Labor *hate* Defence. They demolished the budget resulting in entire capabilities going unfunded. They deliberately forced Defence to publish any internal "Hot Issues Briefs" - something no other Department is required to do - in order to try weaken public support for the ADF.
Labor hate Defence and guess what, Defence hate Labor.
If you want to increase the risk of Australian's losing their life on the battlefield, vote Labor." Scott.
"Geez If you did not like Gillard you were a Misogynist, If you don't believe in Climate Change you are a denier, If you don't believe in Same Sex Marriage, your Homophobic, if you don't believe in Hilal your a bigot, if you don't want scores of Illegal Immigrant coming to out shores your Racist, if you don't believe in the Hijab, your a racist.
So now if your a Former SAS Soldier your a Mutilator.
I am sick of Labor and there cohorts labelling people just because some may have a differing view.Labor is full of hate." Martin.
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Australia’s Secret War: How Unions Sabotaged Our Troops in World War II
Hal Colebatch’s new book, Australia’s Secret War, tells the shocking, true, but until now largely suppressed and hidden story of the war waged from 1939 to 1945 by a number of key Australian trade unions against their own society and against the men and women of their own country’s fighting forces at the time of its gravest peril. His conclusions are based on a broad range of sources, from letters and first-person interviews between the author and ex-servicemen to official and unofficial documents from the archives of World War II.
Between 1939 and 1945 virtually every major Australian warship, including at different times its entire force of cruisers, was targeted by strikes, go-slows and sabotage. Australian soldiers operating in New Guinea and the Pacific Islands went without food, radio equipment and munitions, and Australian warships sailed to and from combat zones without ammunition, because of strikes at home. Planned rescue missions for Australian prisoners-of-war in Borneo were abandoned because wharf strikes left rescuers without heavy weapons. Officers had to restrain Australian and American troops from killing striking trade unionists.
ISBN : 9780980677874 Author : Hal Colebatch
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ISBN : 9780980677874 Author : Hal Colebatch
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Opinion Polls tell us that the majority of Australian Voters support a Political Party, the Australian Labor Party, that has PROMISED to make border protection an "option"and to INCREASE the number of "immigrants" who say that they are obliged, by their Religious belief's, to destroy us.
Under the Rudd / Gillard Green Loon / Rudd Labor Governments Australia's Defence spending was wound back to that of the 1930's
Why would ANY Political Party in Australia want Australia to be defenceless against such people?
This is what former Labor leader Mark Latham was prepared to say publicly, one can only imagine what his Comrades say privately about Australia's Finest when they think Australian's are not listening.
Andrew Bolt discusses the Labor smear on his show HERE
For US Readers note: in Australia the Liberal Party is the Conservative Party and the Labor Party is the Union GetUp funded Socialist Party.
Monday, August 04, 2014
Australian Government slams Sydney Morning Heralds Anti Semitic Cartoon......
George Brandis slams Fairfax newspaper over ‘anti-Semitic’ cartoon
Darren Davidson
Business Media Writer
Sydney
The Australian
August 4,2014
THE Attorney-General, George Brandis, has accused Fairfax Media of publishing anti-Semitic coverage of the Middle East, and denounced a cartoon in The Sydney Morning Herald depicting a Jewish man with an exaggerated nose as comparable to propaganda from Nazi Germany.
In an extraordinary attack, Senator Brandis said coverage in Fairfax papers of the Gaza conflict was “overtly anti-Semitic”.
“I thought the cartoon was deplorable,” Senator Brandis said. “I think that critics of Israel’s foreign policy of course have every right to express their views. But I would have thought that a responsible media organisation would have a very good look at itself when it publishes cartoons (of) the kind we haven’t seen since Germany in the 1930s.”
In response to criticism from the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, Herald editor-in-chief Darren Goodsir said the cartoon was not intended to incite racial hatred. He said it was modelled on a number of photographs published, including one with an old man sitting observing the conflict in Gaza from a hill near Sderot.
Today’s edition of the Herald carries an apology in its editorial. Senator Brandis’s intervention will ratchet up pressure on Fairfax, which is facing a reader and advertiser backlash over the cartoon.
The Australian Jewish News has called on readers to cancel subscriptions to Fairfax. The cartoon illustrated a column by Mike Carlton, which ran in the paper’s July 26 edition. Created by illustrator Glen Le Lievre, the cartoon also ran on the website of Victorian masthead The Age, which is also published by Fairfax. The cartoon features an old man with a hook nose sitting in a chair emblazoned with the Star of David on the back,
pressing a remote to blow up a Palestinian area.
Asked if the cartoon amounted to racial vilification and could encourage or incite others to hate Jews, Senator Brandis said: “It certainly constitutes a racial form of stereotyping. I think The Sydney Morning Herald and Fairfax Media in general ought to be very careful about the almost overtly anti-Semitic tone some of their commentary, including their editorial cartoon, have adopted.”
It is understood Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull rang Goodsir to lambast him for running the cartoon, which he deemed anti-Semitic and offensive to many of his constituents in his eastern Sydney electorate.
Carlton’s column quoted Israeli journalist Gideon Levy accusing the Jewish state of fascism. “It is a breathtaking irony that these atrocities can be committed by a people with a proud liberal tradition of scholarship and culture, who hold the Warsaw Ghetto and the six million dead of the Holocaust at the centre of their race memory,” Carlton wrote. “But this is a new and brutal Israel.”
Goodsir declined to comment yesterday.
Darren Davidson
Business Media Writer
Sydney
The Australian
August 4,2014
In an extraordinary attack, Senator Brandis said coverage in Fairfax papers of the Gaza conflict was “overtly anti-Semitic”.
“I thought the cartoon was deplorable,” Senator Brandis said. “I think that critics of Israel’s foreign policy of course have every right to express their views. But I would have thought that a responsible media organisation would have a very good look at itself when it publishes cartoons (of) the kind we haven’t seen since Germany in the 1930s.”
In response to criticism from the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, Herald editor-in-chief Darren Goodsir said the cartoon was not intended to incite racial hatred. He said it was modelled on a number of photographs published, including one with an old man sitting observing the conflict in Gaza from a hill near Sderot.
Today’s edition of the Herald carries an apology in its editorial. Senator Brandis’s intervention will ratchet up pressure on Fairfax, which is facing a reader and advertiser backlash over the cartoon.
The Australian Jewish News has called on readers to cancel subscriptions to Fairfax. The cartoon illustrated a column by Mike Carlton, which ran in the paper’s July 26 edition. Created by illustrator Glen Le Lievre, the cartoon also ran on the website of Victorian masthead The Age, which is also published by Fairfax. The cartoon features an old man with a hook nose sitting in a chair emblazoned with the Star of David on the back,
pressing a remote to blow up a Palestinian area.
Asked if the cartoon amounted to racial vilification and could encourage or incite others to hate Jews, Senator Brandis said: “It certainly constitutes a racial form of stereotyping. I think The Sydney Morning Herald and Fairfax Media in general ought to be very careful about the almost overtly anti-Semitic tone some of their commentary, including their editorial cartoon, have adopted.”
It is understood Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull rang Goodsir to lambast him for running the cartoon, which he deemed anti-Semitic and offensive to many of his constituents in his eastern Sydney electorate.
Carlton’s column quoted Israeli journalist Gideon Levy accusing the Jewish state of fascism. “It is a breathtaking irony that these atrocities can be committed by a people with a proud liberal tradition of scholarship and culture, who hold the Warsaw Ghetto and the six million dead of the Holocaust at the centre of their race memory,” Carlton wrote. “But this is a new and brutal Israel.”
Goodsir declined to comment yesterday.
We apologise: publishing cartoon in original form was wrong
Friday, January 24, 2014
THEIR ABC and Fairfax, Rats in the SILO, doing their best to undermine border protection +FACTS on numbers of Labor Green Loon VOTE People arrivals
ABC and Fairfax doing their best to undermine border protection issue
Piers Akerman
The Daily Telegraph
January 24,2014
FORCED to face the collapse of their repeated pre-election prediction that the Coalition's border protection policy would be unworkable, the ABC and Fairfax are now doing their utmost to undermine the national effort.
In many countries the activities of these media outlets would be regarded as traitorous.
In 1946 William Joyce, known to the world as Lord Haw-Haw, was executed for treason after spending the war years broadcasting propaganda from Berlin on behalf of his Nazi hosts.
The actions of the ABC this week, notably through its ill-gotten Australia Network, which broadcasts into Indonesia, rival Joyce's disgraceful deeds.
How the ABC and its Fairfax supporters can believe that reporting allegations of accusations of torture by Australian service personnel without a shred of corroborating evidence is in line with sound journalistic practice and principle is beyond belief.
Before the election, both media outlets noisily protested that the Coalition's plan to stop the boats would fail. In the face of the indisputable success of Operation Sovereign Borders, both have been forced to recalibrate their politicised campaign of attack on the Coalition.
Producing an asylum seeker with a burnt finger or two hardly constitutes evidence of torture on the high seas.
Not surprisingly, the ABC and Fairfax are clamouring for an inquiry. So, too, are the people-smugglers - because an inquiry would tie up the naval resources that are damaging their businesses.
The ABC constantly claims Immigration Minister Scott Morrison has imposed a blanket of secrecy over the anti-people-smuggling operation. Secrecy was a prerequisite of the military involved in the operation, as it would be in any military exercise.
The attempts to smear Morrison don't stop there. The ABC and Fairfax try to make him the scapegoat for every action taken by the Immigration Department, even when nothing more than due process is being followed, so intent are they on pursuing their own dubious political agendas.
Earlier this month the organisations prosecuted the cause of a homosexual man who was in Australia unlawfully.
They, and the Twitterati, claimed Morrison was somehow reluctant to act because the man was in a same-sex relationship.
They agitated for Morrison to ignore the process that applies to all individuals applying for protection visas, be they heterosexual or homosexual, and grant the man residency immediately - same-sex relationships take precedence in their alternate world.
Every day these organisations take up political cudgels in the hope of damaging the government.
Occasionally, the ABC's broadcasts generate a response from Indonesia and some minister is obliged to increase the rhetoric even though the political reality dictates the cessation of the people-smuggling trade would benefit both Indonesia and Australia.
Once the boats are stopped, the issue is dead and the countries can get on with more important issues beneficial to both.
But the ABC and Fairfax want to keep the issue alive and they ignore the international precedents for the Abbott government's actions.
Here is the mission statement from the US Coast Guard on illegal boat arrivals: "The Coast Guard conducts patrols and coordinates with other federal agencies and foreign countries to interdict undocumented migrants at sea, denying them entry via maritime routes to the United States, its territories and possessions.
"Thousands of people try to enter this country illegally every year using maritime routes, many via smuggling operations. Interdicting migrants at sea means they can be quickly returned to their countries of origin without the costly processes required if they successfully enter the United States.
"When successful, illegal immigration can potentially cost US taxpayers billions of dollars each year in social services. In addition to relieving this financial burden on our citizens, the Coast Guard's efforts help to support legal migration systems.
"Primarily, the Coast Guard maintains its humanitarian responsibility to prevent the loss of life at sea, since the majority of migrant vessels are dangerously overloaded, unseaworthy or unsafe."
It could just as easily describe the Abbott government policy.
People-smugglers, the ABC and Fairfax have a vested interest in keeping this issue alive in the hope there will be sufficient public outrage to bring about a review. Despite all the indignation, it isn't going to happen.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has given his full backing to the operation and expressed total support to the naval and customs officers on the frontline.
Speaking in Davos, Switzerland, he said: "These are just claims without any apparent facts to back them up. I fully support the statement of the minister on this subject and I have complete confidence in the decency, the humanity and the professionalism of Australia's navy and customs personnel, who I commend for a magnificent job - a job which is increasingly effective and successful.
"While I'm not saying this problem has been entirely resolved, the fact is we have gone many weeks now without a single boat arrival in Australia and the last time we had this kind of an outcome was back, from memory, in 2008.
"I think people making allegations should be able to produce some evidence. There is no evidence to back them up. Who do you believe? Do you believe Australian naval personnel or the people who are trying to break Australian law?
"I trust Australia's naval personnel."
FACTS That the Insurgents apologists and facilitators don't want you to know.
No boat in five weeks vindicates Prime Minister's tactics
Patrick Lion
The DailyTelegraph
Jamuary 24,2014
AUSTRALIA has not recorded an asylum seeker boat arrival in five weeks - the first time in five years there has been such a quiet stretch without more people filling detention centres.
The Abbott government last night said Australia was now back close to the "starting line" in its bid to eliminate "the border chaos" that had started under Kevin Rudd in early 2009 and continued under Julia Gillard.
The reduction comes as relations between Australia and Indonesia over asylum seekers soured further yesterday with our closest northern neighbour warning that Australia was "reachable" by its fighter planes.
The development comes as the population of asylum seekers at Christmas Island has also dropped below 2000 for the first time since February last year.
"We have our foot on the neck of the smugglers and we are not going to give them any relief," Immigration Minister Scott Morrison said. "We are going to keep applying the pressure."
The last boat arrival of asylum seekers was transferred to Australian authorities on December 19, a period of 35 days, or five weeks, without an arrival.
While the government has declined to comment about "on-water" incidents, citing operational reasons, Indonesian authorities have confirmed several boats have been turned or towed back in that time.
The federal government does not count them as arrivals requiring transfers because the people returned to Indonesia instead.
According to the government, the last time a similar period of no transfers occurred was between January and March of 2009 when the Rudd government started relaxing border protection measures.
Mr Morrison last night said he had increasing confidence his policy measures were working, even though he conceded there was more work to do.
He said over the first 100 days the Coalition had pushed down arrivals to about 300 a month - close to the level of the 2010 election - and had now wound back the arrival numbers to the early Rudd era.
"This takes us back close to the starting line on boat arrivals, with it being five years since there was such a period of time with no arrivals," Mr Morrison said.
"Between January and March of 2009 was the last time there has been a longer period with no arrivals. That was when things started to ramp up.
"We are repairing the damage - that means getting us back to what it was like before Rudd and Gillard's border chaos wreaked havoc."
Although the government is aware arrivals do slow during the monsoon season, there were 357 people who arrived on five boats in the first 23 days of January last year.
The population on Christmas Island yesterday was 1909 people, the first time it has been under 2000 people since February last year when monthly reports began and the total was 1224 people.
In March last year, the total rose to 2251 detainees and had stayed above 2000 since.
Piers Akerman
The Daily Telegraph
January 24,2014
FORCED to face the collapse of their repeated pre-election prediction that the Coalition's border protection policy would be unworkable, the ABC and Fairfax are now doing their utmost to undermine the national effort.
In many countries the activities of these media outlets would be regarded as traitorous.
In 1946 William Joyce, known to the world as Lord Haw-Haw, was executed for treason after spending the war years broadcasting propaganda from Berlin on behalf of his Nazi hosts.
The actions of the ABC this week, notably through its ill-gotten Australia Network, which broadcasts into Indonesia, rival Joyce's disgraceful deeds.
How the ABC and its Fairfax supporters can believe that reporting allegations of accusations of torture by Australian service personnel without a shred of corroborating evidence is in line with sound journalistic practice and principle is beyond belief.
Before the election, both media outlets noisily protested that the Coalition's plan to stop the boats would fail. In the face of the indisputable success of Operation Sovereign Borders, both have been forced to recalibrate their politicised campaign of attack on the Coalition.
Producing an asylum seeker with a burnt finger or two hardly constitutes evidence of torture on the high seas.
Not surprisingly, the ABC and Fairfax are clamouring for an inquiry. So, too, are the people-smugglers - because an inquiry would tie up the naval resources that are damaging their businesses.
The ABC constantly claims Immigration Minister Scott Morrison has imposed a blanket of secrecy over the anti-people-smuggling operation. Secrecy was a prerequisite of the military involved in the operation, as it would be in any military exercise.
The attempts to smear Morrison don't stop there. The ABC and Fairfax try to make him the scapegoat for every action taken by the Immigration Department, even when nothing more than due process is being followed, so intent are they on pursuing their own dubious political agendas.
Earlier this month the organisations prosecuted the cause of a homosexual man who was in Australia unlawfully.
They, and the Twitterati, claimed Morrison was somehow reluctant to act because the man was in a same-sex relationship.
They agitated for Morrison to ignore the process that applies to all individuals applying for protection visas, be they heterosexual or homosexual, and grant the man residency immediately - same-sex relationships take precedence in their alternate world.
Every day these organisations take up political cudgels in the hope of damaging the government.
Occasionally, the ABC's broadcasts generate a response from Indonesia and some minister is obliged to increase the rhetoric even though the political reality dictates the cessation of the people-smuggling trade would benefit both Indonesia and Australia.
Once the boats are stopped, the issue is dead and the countries can get on with more important issues beneficial to both.
But the ABC and Fairfax want to keep the issue alive and they ignore the international precedents for the Abbott government's actions.
Here is the mission statement from the US Coast Guard on illegal boat arrivals: "The Coast Guard conducts patrols and coordinates with other federal agencies and foreign countries to interdict undocumented migrants at sea, denying them entry via maritime routes to the United States, its territories and possessions.
"Thousands of people try to enter this country illegally every year using maritime routes, many via smuggling operations. Interdicting migrants at sea means they can be quickly returned to their countries of origin without the costly processes required if they successfully enter the United States.
"When successful, illegal immigration can potentially cost US taxpayers billions of dollars each year in social services. In addition to relieving this financial burden on our citizens, the Coast Guard's efforts help to support legal migration systems.
"Primarily, the Coast Guard maintains its humanitarian responsibility to prevent the loss of life at sea, since the majority of migrant vessels are dangerously overloaded, unseaworthy or unsafe."
It could just as easily describe the Abbott government policy.
People-smugglers, the ABC and Fairfax have a vested interest in keeping this issue alive in the hope there will be sufficient public outrage to bring about a review. Despite all the indignation, it isn't going to happen.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has given his full backing to the operation and expressed total support to the naval and customs officers on the frontline.
Speaking in Davos, Switzerland, he said: "These are just claims without any apparent facts to back them up. I fully support the statement of the minister on this subject and I have complete confidence in the decency, the humanity and the professionalism of Australia's navy and customs personnel, who I commend for a magnificent job - a job which is increasingly effective and successful.
"While I'm not saying this problem has been entirely resolved, the fact is we have gone many weeks now without a single boat arrival in Australia and the last time we had this kind of an outcome was back, from memory, in 2008.
"I think people making allegations should be able to produce some evidence. There is no evidence to back them up. Who do you believe? Do you believe Australian naval personnel or the people who are trying to break Australian law?
"I trust Australia's naval personnel."
FACTS That the Insurgents apologists and facilitators don't want you to know.
No boat in five weeks vindicates Prime Minister's tactics
Patrick Lion
The DailyTelegraph
Jamuary 24,2014
AUSTRALIA has not recorded an asylum seeker boat arrival in five weeks - the first time in five years there has been such a quiet stretch without more people filling detention centres.
The Abbott government last night said Australia was now back close to the "starting line" in its bid to eliminate "the border chaos" that had started under Kevin Rudd in early 2009 and continued under Julia Gillard.
The reduction comes as relations between Australia and Indonesia over asylum seekers soured further yesterday with our closest northern neighbour warning that Australia was "reachable" by its fighter planes.
The development comes as the population of asylum seekers at Christmas Island has also dropped below 2000 for the first time since February last year.
"We have our foot on the neck of the smugglers and we are not going to give them any relief," Immigration Minister Scott Morrison said. "We are going to keep applying the pressure."
The last boat arrival of asylum seekers was transferred to Australian authorities on December 19, a period of 35 days, or five weeks, without an arrival.
While the government has declined to comment about "on-water" incidents, citing operational reasons, Indonesian authorities have confirmed several boats have been turned or towed back in that time.
The federal government does not count them as arrivals requiring transfers because the people returned to Indonesia instead.
According to the government, the last time a similar period of no transfers occurred was between January and March of 2009 when the Rudd government started relaxing border protection measures.
Mr Morrison last night said he had increasing confidence his policy measures were working, even though he conceded there was more work to do.
He said over the first 100 days the Coalition had pushed down arrivals to about 300 a month - close to the level of the 2010 election - and had now wound back the arrival numbers to the early Rudd era.
"This takes us back close to the starting line on boat arrivals, with it being five years since there was such a period of time with no arrivals," Mr Morrison said.
"Between January and March of 2009 was the last time there has been a longer period with no arrivals. That was when things started to ramp up.
"We are repairing the damage - that means getting us back to what it was like before Rudd and Gillard's border chaos wreaked havoc."
Although the government is aware arrivals do slow during the monsoon season, there were 357 people who arrived on five boats in the first 23 days of January last year.
The population on Christmas Island yesterday was 1909 people, the first time it has been under 2000 people since February last year when monthly reports began and the total was 1224 people.
In March last year, the total rose to 2251 detainees and had stayed above 2000 since.
Thursday, November 07, 2013
Australia Haters Gone Bad er
Intolerance and rudeness shouldn't be the bottom line
Andrew Bolt
Herald Sun
November 6, 2013
IT IS getting harder to cop moral lectures. I mean, have our moral "betters" ever been this savage?
For instance, once you might have thought a "human rights" lawyer just wanted people to be nicer to each other. But then comes Julian Burnside, the best-known of them, urging children to spit on Immigration Minister Scott Morrison.
Tweeted Burnside: "I hope little children stop him in the street and spit on his shoes."
I note Burnside refuses to set the children an example. He neither urges them to act in a civil way, nor takes the lead in spitting on a government minister.
He lacks conviction or lacks guts, urging children to do what he dares not.
How often it turns out that the greatest demands for tolerance come from the intolerant.
Take Dan Savage, a gay activist on the ABC's Q&A on Monday who demands more tolerance for gays, but showed little himself.
"You are full of s---," he told one panellist and heckled: "I give a wicked blow job."
Asked to nominate a "dangerous idea ... to change the world for the better", he suggested "abortion should be mandatory for about 30 years".
Same twist with The Age. It denounced signs calling Labor Prime Minister Julia Gillard a "witch", but when former
Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died ran a big picture on its website of a sign jeering, "The bitch is dead".
The Age has even now promoted T-shirts printed by one of its columnists with the slogan "F--- Abbott."
You see, with tribalists it's not the principle that counts, but the side.
I can understand such abuse from desperate attention seekers. When Catherine Deveny, an ABC favourite, tweeted that she hoped her former Age editor developed "a-----e cancer" I knew she needed to sell tickets to her shows.
But we pay the ABC more than $1 billion, so it could set the moral standard, not trawl the meanest streets for cheap tricks.
Yet we've seen ABC TV even show a picture of a conservative critic doctored to make him look as if he was having sex with a dog.
The journalists' union is no better. To present the finalists of its Walkley Awards, allegedly to honour the noblest journalism, it hired two presenters who had tweeted about Abbott performing sex acts, including with an animal.
The crude rule. And it's not OK.
Andrew Bolt
Herald Sun
November 6, 2013
IT IS getting harder to cop moral lectures. I mean, have our moral "betters" ever been this savage?
For instance, once you might have thought a "human rights" lawyer just wanted people to be nicer to each other. But then comes Julian Burnside, the best-known of them, urging children to spit on Immigration Minister Scott Morrison.
Tweeted Burnside: "I hope little children stop him in the street and spit on his shoes."
I note Burnside refuses to set the children an example. He neither urges them to act in a civil way, nor takes the lead in spitting on a government minister.
He lacks conviction or lacks guts, urging children to do what he dares not.
How often it turns out that the greatest demands for tolerance come from the intolerant.
Take Dan Savage, a gay activist on the ABC's Q&A on Monday who demands more tolerance for gays, but showed little himself.
"You are full of s---," he told one panellist and heckled: "I give a wicked blow job."
Asked to nominate a "dangerous idea ... to change the world for the better", he suggested "abortion should be mandatory for about 30 years".
Same twist with The Age. It denounced signs calling Labor Prime Minister Julia Gillard a "witch", but when former
Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died ran a big picture on its website of a sign jeering, "The bitch is dead".
The Age has even now promoted T-shirts printed by one of its columnists with the slogan "F--- Abbott."
You see, with tribalists it's not the principle that counts, but the side.
I can understand such abuse from desperate attention seekers. When Catherine Deveny, an ABC favourite, tweeted that she hoped her former Age editor developed "a-----e cancer" I knew she needed to sell tickets to her shows.
Miranda Devine: "THE sneering foulness of the Left is bubbling up like overflow from an unblocked sewer at the realisation the Abbott government is here to stay."
But we pay the ABC more than $1 billion, so it could set the moral standard, not trawl the meanest streets for cheap tricks.
Yet we've seen ABC TV even show a picture of a conservative critic doctored to make him look as if he was having sex with a dog.
The journalists' union is no better. To present the finalists of its Walkley Awards, allegedly to honour the noblest journalism, it hired two presenters who had tweeted about Abbott performing sex acts, including with an animal.
The crude rule. And it's not OK.
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