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Friday, February 28, 2014
Australian Council of Trade Unions / GetUp financed Labor Green Loons VOTE People
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Sunday, February 16, 2014
Union GetUp Funded Labor Green Loon's Enemy Embedded Combatants (VOTE People) on the Move in Australia
A bush hideaway has become the focus of a counterterrorism investigation amid fears it was used by Khaled Sharrouf
Yoni Bashan State Political Reporter
The Sunday Telegraph
February 16,2014
LAND owner is used to shooting parties spending the weekend at his remote property, Rockview. But there was something about the group who turned up in November last year that made him uneasy.
The ground was covered “like a carpet” with spent ammunition, according to police.
Many of the bullets appeared to be aimed at a large tree, which authorities described as being “blistered” by bullets.
“They were on their guts shooting, like soldiers. It was very strange,” Mr Landry said. “They used, I think, 400 shots in an hour, one guy at a time. They were big guns as well.”
The booking was made under the name Jack. But when police arrived they allegedly found Khaled Sharrouf, convicted of plotting a terror attack in Sydney as one of the “terror nine”, his associate Omar Ammouche, a known counterintelligence target, an unnamed construction industry identity and an eight-year-old boy.
Officers seized four high-powered rifles at the scene.
Now the property at Glen Davis, near Lithgow, has become the focus of a multi-agency counterterrorism investigation amid fears it was used as a training ground by Sharrouf, who is believed to be in Syria after slipping out of the country illegally on his brother’s passport.
According to court documents police were called to the property on Crown Station Rd about 6.50pm on November 9 after complaints about noise. They arrived to find Sharrouf holding the butt of a CZ-brand bolt-action rifle with a scope attachment, against his right shoulder.
“The accused turned towards police and immediately placed the firearm on the ground upon seeing police. There was a large amount of spent ammunition on the ground,” the police statement of facts said.
“They were on their guts shooting, like soldiers. It was very strange,” Mr Landry said. “They used, I think, 400 shots in an hour, one guy at a time. They were big guns as well.”Michael Landry
Sharrouf told police he did not have a firearms license or permit, and claimed he did not fire the gun.
Ammouche was standing two metres away and said: “I thought if I was licensed I could supervise him, but he wasn’t shooting anyway and I was only sighting in.”
Police later said two bullets were found in the gun’s magazine.
Sharrouf was charged and convicted of possessing an unauthorised firearm. Ammouche is still before the courts for allowing an unauthorised person to possess a firearm.
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The seized weapons were all licensed to Sydney man Ibrahim Massri, who loaned them to Ammouche, a licensed shooter whose permit is now facing suspension.
Sharrouf is facing two further charges, laid by the NSW Counter Terrorism Command, for using his brother’s passport to leave Australia 10 days after the firearms charge was laid.
The Sunday Telegraph revealed last week how Sharrouf, 31, boarded a flight for Kuala Lumpur from Sydney on December 6, less than a month after the trip to Glen Davis. His wife, Tara Nettleton — an Anglo-Australian who converted to Islam — has also left the country, authorities confirmed.
It is understood Mostafa Sharrouf, whose passport was used, has vigorously denied providing or assisting his brother to leave the country and had no knowledge of the event until notified by police.
"The accused turned towards police and immediately placed the firearm on the ground upon seeing police. There was a large amount of spent ammunition on the ground."police report
The booking, made for two nights from November 8, is not the first time the name Jack was used to book the cabins. There were two previous bookings at the 160 acre property, with each of the men paying $50 each per night.
Mr Landry said it was the first time he had seen Sharrouf at the farm.
Ammouche’s presence remains of deep interest to investigators. He was last year filmed by Channel Seven spitting on and assaulting Muslim community leader Jamal Daoud over a disagreement about Syria. A magistrate later ruled he was a “good community member and community builder”.
Similar remote locations in far western NSW were used by the “Terror Nine” — of which Ammouche is not a member — during investigations by Operation Pendennis to test and train with weapons.
Yoni Bashan State Political Reporter
The Sunday Telegraph
February 16,2014
- 400 rounds were fired in an hour
- police allegedly found Khaled Sharrouf and associates at the property
- officers seized four high-powered rifles at the scene
- property is now focus of a multi-agency counterterrorism investigation
LAND owner is used to shooting parties spending the weekend at his remote property, Rockview. But there was something about the group who turned up in November last year that made him uneasy.
For a start there was the sheer amount of gunfire and style of shooting — 400 rounds fired in an hour by men lying on the ground in combat position.
The ground was covered “like a carpet” with spent ammunition, according to police.
Many of the bullets appeared to be aimed at a large tree, which authorities described as being “blistered” by bullets.
“They were on their guts shooting, like soldiers. It was very strange,” Mr Landry said. “They used, I think, 400 shots in an hour, one guy at a time. They were big guns as well.”
The booking was made under the name Jack. But when police arrived they allegedly found Khaled Sharrouf, convicted of plotting a terror attack in Sydney as one of the “terror nine”, his associate Omar Ammouche, a known counterintelligence target, an unnamed construction industry identity and an eight-year-old boy.
Officers seized four high-powered rifles at the scene.
Now the property at Glen Davis, near Lithgow, has become the focus of a multi-agency counterterrorism investigation amid fears it was used as a training ground by Sharrouf, who is believed to be in Syria after slipping out of the country illegally on his brother’s passport.
According to court documents police were called to the property on Crown Station Rd about 6.50pm on November 9 after complaints about noise. They arrived to find Sharrouf holding the butt of a CZ-brand bolt-action rifle with a scope attachment, against his right shoulder.
“The accused turned towards police and immediately placed the firearm on the ground upon seeing police. There was a large amount of spent ammunition on the ground,” the police statement of facts said.
“They were on their guts shooting, like soldiers. It was very strange,” Mr Landry said. “They used, I think, 400 shots in an hour, one guy at a time. They were big guns as well.”Michael Landry
Sharrouf told police he did not have a firearms license or permit, and claimed he did not fire the gun.
Ammouche was standing two metres away and said: “I thought if I was licensed I could supervise him, but he wasn’t shooting anyway and I was only sighting in.”
Police later said two bullets were found in the gun’s magazine.
Sharrouf was charged and convicted of possessing an unauthorised firearm. Ammouche is still before the courts for allowing an unauthorised person to possess a firearm.
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The seized weapons were all licensed to Sydney man Ibrahim Massri, who loaned them to Ammouche, a licensed shooter whose permit is now facing suspension.
Sharrouf is facing two further charges, laid by the NSW Counter Terrorism Command, for using his brother’s passport to leave Australia 10 days after the firearms charge was laid.
The Sunday Telegraph revealed last week how Sharrouf, 31, boarded a flight for Kuala Lumpur from Sydney on December 6, less than a month after the trip to Glen Davis. His wife, Tara Nettleton — an Anglo-Australian who converted to Islam — has also left the country, authorities confirmed.
It is understood Mostafa Sharrouf, whose passport was used, has vigorously denied providing or assisting his brother to leave the country and had no knowledge of the event until notified by police.
"The accused turned towards police and immediately placed the firearm on the ground upon seeing police. There was a large amount of spent ammunition on the ground."police report
The booking, made for two nights from November 8, is not the first time the name Jack was used to book the cabins. There were two previous bookings at the 160 acre property, with each of the men paying $50 each per night.
Mr Landry said it was the first time he had seen Sharrouf at the farm.
Ammouche’s presence remains of deep interest to investigators. He was last year filmed by Channel Seven spitting on and assaulting Muslim community leader Jamal Daoud over a disagreement about Syria. A magistrate later ruled he was a “good community member and community builder”.
Similar remote locations in far western NSW were used by the “Terror Nine” — of which Ammouche is not a member — during investigations by Operation Pendennis to test and train with weapons.
Thursday, February 13, 2014
"Harmony Days" Down Under:Labor Green Loon's VOTE GROPER, Mohammed Salem Nazari pleads GUILTY to INDECENT ASSAULT of Seven Teenage Girls at Sydney Olympic Park pool
Afghani asylum seeker Mohammed Salem Nazari pleads guilty to two charges of indecent assault of seven teenage girls
Amy Dale Chief Court Reporter
The Daily Telegraph
February 13,2014
AN asylum seeker who “traumatised” seven teenage girls by indecently groping them in the Sydney Olympic Park pool had only been in Australia for six months, a court has heard.
Mohammed Salem Nazari pleaded guilty at Burwood Local Court yesterday to two charges of indecent assault on two 18-year-old girls and five offences of indecently assaulting a person under the age of 16 at the pool.
The 33-year-old, who doesn’t speak English, assaulted the girls — the youngest aged 14 — in the Rapid River Ride whirlpool within 25 minutes on December 8.
The asylum seeker had recently arrived in Australia from Afghanistan and was on a bridging visa.
His lawyer told Burwood Local Court last year that Nazari was “a poor or non-swimmer” and only came into contact with the girls due to the current in the pool.
After initially pleading not guilty to the charges during an unsuccessful bail application late last year, Nazari reversed that yesterday and admitted all of the accusations.
Nazari required a Dari interpreter during all of his court appearances.
Police documents tendered to the court alleged he grabbed all of the girls around their waist, touching their thighs, bottoms and breast.
The girls reported the groping to pool security and they watched his movements on CCTV footage until the police arrived.
Nazari, who had been living in a unit in Parramatta at the time, was arrested and taken to Auburn police station.
Court documents said Nazari had been “nonchalant” about the accusations and insisted all of the contact with the girls had been accidental.
The charges of indecent assault and indecently assaulting people under 16 carry maximum jail terms of five and 10 years respectively.
Immigration Minister Scott Morrison’s office confirmed in December that Nazari’s visa had been cancelled and court papers said he was the “subject of an immigration hold”.
It came after a Coalition crackdown on asylum seekers and bridging visa holders in trouble with the law.
Under the previous government some asylum seekers remained in the community while facing charges with revocations considered on a case-by-case basis.
Nazari, who is from the Hazara ethnic group in Afghanistan, was the 31st asylum seeker facing criminal charges to have his bridging visa cancelled under the new rules.
He will be sentenced on March 3. It is expected he will be deported on the completion of his sentence.
Amy Dale Chief Court Reporter
The Daily Telegraph
February 13,2014
AN asylum seeker who “traumatised” seven teenage girls by indecently groping them in the Sydney Olympic Park pool had only been in Australia for six months, a court has heard.
Mohammed Salem Nazari pleaded guilty at Burwood Local Court yesterday to two charges of indecent assault on two 18-year-old girls and five offences of indecently assaulting a person under the age of 16 at the pool.
The 33-year-old, who doesn’t speak English, assaulted the girls — the youngest aged 14 — in the Rapid River Ride whirlpool within 25 minutes on December 8.
The asylum seeker had recently arrived in Australia from Afghanistan and was on a bridging visa.
His lawyer told Burwood Local Court last year that Nazari was “a poor or non-swimmer” and only came into contact with the girls due to the current in the pool.
After initially pleading not guilty to the charges during an unsuccessful bail application late last year, Nazari reversed that yesterday and admitted all of the accusations.
Nazari required a Dari interpreter during all of his court appearances.
Police documents tendered to the court alleged he grabbed all of the girls around their waist, touching their thighs, bottoms and breast.
The girls reported the groping to pool security and they watched his movements on CCTV footage until the police arrived.
Nazari, who had been living in a unit in Parramatta at the time, was arrested and taken to Auburn police station.
Court documents said Nazari had been “nonchalant” about the accusations and insisted all of the contact with the girls had been accidental.
The charges of indecent assault and indecently assaulting people under 16 carry maximum jail terms of five and 10 years respectively.
Immigration Minister Scott Morrison’s office confirmed in December that Nazari’s visa had been cancelled and court papers said he was the “subject of an immigration hold”.
It came after a Coalition crackdown on asylum seekers and bridging visa holders in trouble with the law.
Under the previous government some asylum seekers remained in the community while facing charges with revocations considered on a case-by-case basis.
Nazari, who is from the Hazara ethnic group in Afghanistan, was the 31st asylum seeker facing criminal charges to have his bridging visa cancelled under the new rules.
He will be sentenced on March 3. It is expected he will be deported on the completion of his sentence.
Tuesday, February 04, 2014
Labor Green Loon's Publicity Department:THEIR ABC Admits it had no evidence to back it's Aslyum Seekers story of torture by the Royal Australian Navy.
ABC TV in burns backdown: managing director Mark Scott admits no evidence Australian navy tortured asylum seekers
Tim Blair
The Daily Telegraph
February 5, 2014
THE ABC has backed down in the controversy over its reporting of claims that navy personnel tortured asylum seekers, apologising "if our reporting led anyone to mistakenly assume that the ABC supported the asylum seekers' claims".
A statement issued yesterday by ABC managing director Mark Scott and his news director Kate Torney admitted that video shown by the ABC of burned asylum seekers' hands did not establish how their hands had been injured.
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"The ABC's initial reports on the video said that the vision appeared to support the asylum seekers' claims," the statement reads. "That's because it was the first concrete evidence that the injuries had occurred. What the video did not do was establish how those injuries occurred."
The statement, published online by the ABC, indicated regret over how the asylum seekers' claims were presented.
"The wording around the ABC's initial reporting needed to be more precise on that point," it continued.
"We regret if our reporting led anyone to mistakenly assume that the ABC supported the asylum seekers' claims.
"The ABC has always presented the allegations as just that - claims worthy of further investigation."
The backdown follows criticism directed at the ABC from The Daily Telegraph, other media outlets, Immigration Minister Scott Morrison and Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
"A lot of people feel at the moment that the ABC instinctively takes everyone's side but Australia's," Mr Abbott said last week.
The ABC's own Media Watch program joined in the criticism on Monday night.
"The ABC overreached, by essentially endorsing the allegations of navy mistreatment on radio, TV and online throughout the day," Media Watch host Paul Barry said.
"Because even if the (Indonesian) police did back the asylum seekers' claims, there was no way of knowing they were true ... We believe the ABC should have been far more cautious, given the evidence it had, and given it was making such a big call against the navy."
On the same program, Barry caused a Twitter storm by admitting to voting Liberal in last year's federal election.
"Paul Barry broke my heart admitting he voted Liberal," sobbed one Twitter user.
"Paul Barry is god dang dead to me," wrote another.
Yet another shattered fan pleaded with the presenter: "You were joking when you said you voted Liberal, weren't you?"
Barry later confirmed he had voted Liberal.
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
THEIR ABC Caught out AGAIN!!!! Slandering Australia's Finest, we know who is paying them and its now official who it is they are working for, and it is not Australia.
Asylum seekers accused of sabotaging own boat
Ian McPhedran
The Daily Telegraph
January 22,2014
FAR from burning the hands of asylum seekers, Australian Navy sailors actually provided first aid to asylum seekers whose hands were burned as they attempted to sabotage their own boat.
Navy chief Vice-Admiral Griggs will take to Twitter later today to deny allegations by Indonesian police and asylum seekers that his sailors had tortured them by burning their hands and bashing them.
"This is not what the navy does," a source said he would say.
"We have always been about saving people's lives."
Immigration Minister Scott Morrison today rejected the claims, adding the government is committed to strong Australian borders.
"There are any number of criminal syndicates trying to reach our borders that put Australians at risk,'' he said.
Earlier he labelled the reports "unfounded, unsubstantiated and outrageous".
"There has been no police investigation in Indonesia," Mr Morrison told Fairfax radio in Perth.
"I am surprised that unsubstantiated allegations would have been aired in such a way which diminish our navy.
"I have total confidence in our navy - for these allegations to be aired without any qualification is a pretty poor effort and not something most Australians would give a tick too.
"These people put themselves them at risk to protect others. For them to have to sit there and cop this sort of rubbish is offensive."
The navy also has the backing of Acting Prime Minister Warren Truss.
"I'm confident they have behaved responsibly and appropriately,'' Mr Truss told media today.
"We received assurances that the defence forces have acted responsibly and I accept those assurances.''
Video aired on ABC News shows asylum seekers undergoing medical checks for burns that Indonesian police say were caused by the Australian Navy.
Indonesian police say they had to get medical treatment for 10 asylum seekers - seven with severe burns on their hands - after they were picked up in Indonesian waters on January 6, ABC News reports.
Indonesian police told ABC News the burns were caused after the Australian Navy forced asylum seekers to board a boat being towed back to Indonesia and to hold onto pipes coming out of the boat's engine.
ABC News says the police claims appear to correspond with claims of mistreatment made by the asylum seekers when they first spoke to them a fortnight ago.
Asylum seekers also claim they were beaten by navy personnel, ABC News reports.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Tony Abbott has moved to ease tensions with Indonesia by declaring it is Australia's "most important single relationship''.
It comes as Australian Customs and Defence start a review into the entry of Australian vessels into Indonesian waters after the incursions reignited tensions between the nations.
The Australian PM has arrived in Davos for this week's World Economic Forum but he won't get a chance to meet with Dr Yudhoyono, who is not attending.
However Mr Abbott stressed the importance he placed on relations with Australia's northern neighbour and its leader.
"It is, in the broad, our most important single relationship,'' Mr Abbott told a press conference in Davos on Tuesday.
"At different times in the past there have been difficulties ... and I dare say our two countries being what they are, there will be difficulties in the future.
"But I do want to stress President Yudhoyono has been a great president of Indonesia, has been a very good friend of Australia and I have enormous personal respect and admiration for the president.
" ... I want nothing but a good relationship between Australia and Indonesia.''
Ian McPhedran
The Daily Telegraph
January 22,2014
FAR from burning the hands of asylum seekers, Australian Navy sailors actually provided first aid to asylum seekers whose hands were burned as they attempted to sabotage their own boat.
Navy chief Vice-Admiral Griggs will take to Twitter later today to deny allegations by Indonesian police and asylum seekers that his sailors had tortured them by burning their hands and bashing them.
"This is not what the navy does," a source said he would say.
"We have always been about saving people's lives."
The Lies and Slander propagated by THEIR ABC, Australia's HATE MEDIA, Hatred of all things Australian
Immigration Minister Scott Morrison today rejected the claims, adding the government is committed to strong Australian borders.
"There are any number of criminal syndicates trying to reach our borders that put Australians at risk,'' he said.
Earlier he labelled the reports "unfounded, unsubstantiated and outrageous".
"There has been no police investigation in Indonesia," Mr Morrison told Fairfax radio in Perth.
"I am surprised that unsubstantiated allegations would have been aired in such a way which diminish our navy.
"I have total confidence in our navy - for these allegations to be aired without any qualification is a pretty poor effort and not something most Australians would give a tick too.
"These people put themselves them at risk to protect others. For them to have to sit there and cop this sort of rubbish is offensive."
The navy also has the backing of Acting Prime Minister Warren Truss.
"I'm confident they have behaved responsibly and appropriately,'' Mr Truss told media today.
"We received assurances that the defence forces have acted responsibly and I accept those assurances.''
Video aired on ABC News shows asylum seekers undergoing medical checks for burns that Indonesian police say were caused by the Australian Navy.
Indonesian police say they had to get medical treatment for 10 asylum seekers - seven with severe burns on their hands - after they were picked up in Indonesian waters on January 6, ABC News reports.
Indonesian police told ABC News the burns were caused after the Australian Navy forced asylum seekers to board a boat being towed back to Indonesia and to hold onto pipes coming out of the boat's engine.
ABC News says the police claims appear to correspond with claims of mistreatment made by the asylum seekers when they first spoke to them a fortnight ago.
Asylum seekers also claim they were beaten by navy personnel, ABC News reports.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Tony Abbott has moved to ease tensions with Indonesia by declaring it is Australia's "most important single relationship''.
It comes as Australian Customs and Defence start a review into the entry of Australian vessels into Indonesian waters after the incursions reignited tensions between the nations.
The Australian PM has arrived in Davos for this week's World Economic Forum but he won't get a chance to meet with Dr Yudhoyono, who is not attending.
However Mr Abbott stressed the importance he placed on relations with Australia's northern neighbour and its leader.
"It is, in the broad, our most important single relationship,'' Mr Abbott told a press conference in Davos on Tuesday.
"At different times in the past there have been difficulties ... and I dare say our two countries being what they are, there will be difficulties in the future.
"But I do want to stress President Yudhoyono has been a great president of Indonesia, has been a very good friend of Australia and I have enormous personal respect and admiration for the president.
" ... I want nothing but a good relationship between Australia and Indonesia.''
Saturday, January 18, 2014
Indonesia threatens Australia, and demands Australia stop defending its borders from Islamic Insurgents. Yeah I know that's not what they said but that's what they mean.
Back off, Jakarta tells Australia
Brendan Nicholson and Peter Alford
The Australian
January 18, 2014
INDONESIA has demanded Australia stop its border-protection operations and warned it will strengthen warship patrols of its maritime borders, after Australian patrol vessels breached Indonesian territorial waters.
Sky News, Community TV,ABC,SBS, wannabees,salivating over what they see as a diplomatic gaff by Australian Conservative (Liberal) PM Tony Abbott as in securing Australia's borders as promised in his pre election promise to do so in the September 7 2013 Federal Election.
Immigration Minister Scott Morrison confirmed the territorial waters breaches, revealed in The Australian yesterday, and Australia's unqualified apology but he refused to confirm the violations occurred as Operation Sovereign Borders vessels forced asylum-seeker boats back to Indonesia.
The turn-back operation apparently started in mid-December, in spite of Jakarta's hostility to the strategy. Reportedly five boatloads have since been forced to return, though Indonesia only officially confirms two and Canberra refuses to acknowledge any specific case.
A spokesman for Indonesia's senior security minister warned the new incidents threatened attempts to repair the bilateral relationship, following the November revelation that an Australian security agency had mounted a spying operation in 2009 against President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, his wife and their political confidants.
"If they entered Indonesian waters like that, this will only worsen the situation and the relationship between Indonesia and Australia," said Agus Barnas, spokesman for Djoko Suyanto, Coordination Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs.
Indonesia plans to boost its naval presence where the Australian incursions happened, with a third frigate set to join the southern patrol.
"The government of Indonesia has the legal right to protect and defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity in accordance with international laws and the UN Charter," it said.
In "condemning and rejecting" the 20km marine border violations yesterday, Mr Djoko and Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa explicitly linked the Australian border breaches and the turn-back operation.
"Indonesia demands that such operations conducted by the Australian government that leads to these incidents be suspended until formal clarification is received and guarantees such incidents will not recur," he said.
The statement, which does not acknowledge Australia's "unqualified apology" for the incursions, was released following meetings with Dr Yudhoyono yesterday morning and phone consultation with Dr Natalegawa, who is visiting Myanmar.
Mr Morrison said yesterday that Foreign Minister Julie Bishop had been unable to convey Australia's apology directly to her counterpart on Thursday night because he was travelling.
Mr Morrison yesterday blamed "positional errors" for the incursions which he said were accidental. "I unreservedly apologise to the government of Indonesia for this," Mr Morrison said.
The Weekend Australian understands there were five or six breaches of Indonesian waters involving two vessels from the Royal Australian Navy and one from the Australian Customs Service, all operating under the control of Border Protection Command.
An investigation into the extent of the incursions, which vessels were involved and why and when they entered Indonesian water has been launched by Australian Defence Force chief, David Hurley.
It is considered unlikely that the crews of the Australian vessels were unaware of their positions given the sophisticated navigation equipment aboard them.
It is possible that the Australian vessels may have continued to tow or to escort asylum-seeker vessels to get them closer to a landfall on Indonesia either to ensure they made it there safely or to stop them turning back towards Australia or Christmas Island.
Tony Abbott, Ms Bishop and Mr Morrison have repeatedly assured Indonesia their boats strategy did not involve Australian vessels entering Indonesian waters.
Bill Shorten accused Mr Morrison of blaming the sailors to cover up flaws in the government's policies.
Operation Sovereign Borders commander Angus Campbell said he was advised of the breach on Wednesday afternoon after a routine report was examined by a border command official.
He said navy personnel did not know they had breached Indonesian waters at the time.
"I'm determined such events won't occur again," Lieutenant General Campbell said.
Additional reporting: AAP
Brendan Nicholson and Peter Alford
The Australian
January 18, 2014
INDONESIA has demanded Australia stop its border-protection operations and warned it will strengthen warship patrols of its maritime borders, after Australian patrol vessels breached Indonesian territorial waters.
Sky News, Community TV,ABC,SBS, wannabees,salivating over what they see as a diplomatic gaff by Australian Conservative (Liberal) PM Tony Abbott as in securing Australia's borders as promised in his pre election promise to do so in the September 7 2013 Federal Election.
Immigration Minister Scott Morrison confirmed the territorial waters breaches, revealed in The Australian yesterday, and Australia's unqualified apology but he refused to confirm the violations occurred as Operation Sovereign Borders vessels forced asylum-seeker boats back to Indonesia.
The turn-back operation apparently started in mid-December, in spite of Jakarta's hostility to the strategy. Reportedly five boatloads have since been forced to return, though Indonesia only officially confirms two and Canberra refuses to acknowledge any specific case.
A spokesman for Indonesia's senior security minister warned the new incidents threatened attempts to repair the bilateral relationship, following the November revelation that an Australian security agency had mounted a spying operation in 2009 against President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, his wife and their political confidants.
"If they entered Indonesian waters like that, this will only worsen the situation and the relationship between Indonesia and Australia," said Agus Barnas, spokesman for Djoko Suyanto, Coordination Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs.
Indonesia plans to boost its naval presence where the Australian incursions happened, with a third frigate set to join the southern patrol.
"The government of Indonesia has the legal right to protect and defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity in accordance with international laws and the UN Charter," it said.
In "condemning and rejecting" the 20km marine border violations yesterday, Mr Djoko and Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa explicitly linked the Australian border breaches and the turn-back operation.
"Indonesia demands that such operations conducted by the Australian government that leads to these incidents be suspended until formal clarification is received and guarantees such incidents will not recur," he said.
The statement, which does not acknowledge Australia's "unqualified apology" for the incursions, was released following meetings with Dr Yudhoyono yesterday morning and phone consultation with Dr Natalegawa, who is visiting Myanmar.
Mr Morrison said yesterday that Foreign Minister Julie Bishop had been unable to convey Australia's apology directly to her counterpart on Thursday night because he was travelling.
Mr Morrison yesterday blamed "positional errors" for the incursions which he said were accidental. "I unreservedly apologise to the government of Indonesia for this," Mr Morrison said.
The Weekend Australian understands there were five or six breaches of Indonesian waters involving two vessels from the Royal Australian Navy and one from the Australian Customs Service, all operating under the control of Border Protection Command.
An investigation into the extent of the incursions, which vessels were involved and why and when they entered Indonesian water has been launched by Australian Defence Force chief, David Hurley.
It is considered unlikely that the crews of the Australian vessels were unaware of their positions given the sophisticated navigation equipment aboard them.
It is possible that the Australian vessels may have continued to tow or to escort asylum-seeker vessels to get them closer to a landfall on Indonesia either to ensure they made it there safely or to stop them turning back towards Australia or Christmas Island.
Tony Abbott, Ms Bishop and Mr Morrison have repeatedly assured Indonesia their boats strategy did not involve Australian vessels entering Indonesian waters.
Bill Shorten accused Mr Morrison of blaming the sailors to cover up flaws in the government's policies.
Operation Sovereign Borders commander Angus Campbell said he was advised of the breach on Wednesday afternoon after a routine report was examined by a border command official.
He said navy personnel did not know they had breached Indonesian waters at the time.
"I'm determined such events won't occur again," Lieutenant General Campbell said.
Additional reporting: AAP
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
"Fear for your Wife " Australia's new Conservative Abbott Federal Government cuts Labor Green Loon Islamic Colonization of Australia by 70% in five weeks of taking office.
The previous Labor Green Loon Independent Co Party Marxist Government has yet to tell Australians why it was a good idea to import over Fifty Thousand predominantly single Male Muslims age 16 to 28 into Australia in the 6 years of the Rudd / Gillard / Rudd, Union, Get Up Funded Labor Green Loon Independent Co Party Government.
Insurgency facilitators and supporters protest outside Australian Immigration Minister Scott Morrison's electoral office
We stop the circus to stop the boats
Scott Morrison
The Daily Telegraph
October 29 ,2013
IN just over five weeks of Operation Sovereign Borders, fewer than 600 people have turned up on 10 boats. Under the previous government this would occur in just five days. There has been a difference from day one. The current rate of arrivals represents an immediate 70 per cent decline, but we are not claiming anything at this stage and there is still a long way to go.
We will continue to apply maximum pressure to confront the inevitable surge from people smugglers in the weeks ahead, especially leading into the monsoon season.
Stopping the boats is a battle, and no one measure is enough to defeat the criminal people smugglers who have had the upper hand for the past five years.
This battle is being fought using the full arsenal of measures as part of a whole-of-government operation, led by Lieutenant General Angus Campbell. This new approach has had its critics. Chief among their concerns is not the results, but our language and how information is released to the media.
The position we have taken on removing operationally sensitive information from public dissemination was flagged before the election and is a function of running a military-led border security operation. It is not business as usual, and that is the point.
Such a policy is not uncommon for these types of operations, as our military commander has pointed out. When we first announced Operation Sovereign Borders, many critics scoffed at our decision to cast operations in this military-led context, but clearly failed to appreciate the implications of such an approach.
We are simply following through with what we promised we would do.
We are not going to reveal the posture of our border protection assets at sea, by revealing the time, place and intercepting vessel as the previous government did. Nor are we going to run a shipping news service for smugglers to use government information as proof of voyages for payment or to provide intelligence reports on client nationalities.
Within the detention network we are not going to publicise individual self-harm incidents. Such publicity only provides an incentive for this behaviour. Nor are we going to provide open access to centres for media as not only does this raise false hopes among detainees who believe media coverage of their plight will change the outcome of their case, but also can encourage non-compliant behaviour within the centres that can make a difficult job even harder for those who work there.
Access to centres for relevant independent agencies will continue as it did under the previous government to ensure transparency of operations.
We are also not going to give credibility to unsubstantiated claims constantly put up by advocacy groups through the media to undermine the government's tough policy position.
If serious and substantiated allegations are raised then we will deal with them.
Finally, our language calls it as we see it. We are not going to soften our language to condone illegal entry to Australia by boat. We want to stop this practice not socialise it. We do not share the angst of the previous government on this issue that led to their endless double-mindedness and policy paralysis that underpinned the people smuggling trade.
The amount of media interviews by Labor immigration ministers did not make up for their unprecedented border protection failures. As a consequence my focus is on the people being smuggled, their smugglers, our mission and the partners we are working with to achieve our goal.
That is where my focus will remain until the boats are stopped.
Scott Morrison is the federal Immigration Minister
Insurgency facilitators and supporters protest outside Australian Immigration Minister Scott Morrison's electoral office
We stop the circus to stop the boats
Scott Morrison
The Daily Telegraph
October 29 ,2013
IN just over five weeks of Operation Sovereign Borders, fewer than 600 people have turned up on 10 boats. Under the previous government this would occur in just five days. There has been a difference from day one. The current rate of arrivals represents an immediate 70 per cent decline, but we are not claiming anything at this stage and there is still a long way to go.
We will continue to apply maximum pressure to confront the inevitable surge from people smugglers in the weeks ahead, especially leading into the monsoon season.
Stopping the boats is a battle, and no one measure is enough to defeat the criminal people smugglers who have had the upper hand for the past five years.
This battle is being fought using the full arsenal of measures as part of a whole-of-government operation, led by Lieutenant General Angus Campbell. This new approach has had its critics. Chief among their concerns is not the results, but our language and how information is released to the media.
The position we have taken on removing operationally sensitive information from public dissemination was flagged before the election and is a function of running a military-led border security operation. It is not business as usual, and that is the point.
Such a policy is not uncommon for these types of operations, as our military commander has pointed out. When we first announced Operation Sovereign Borders, many critics scoffed at our decision to cast operations in this military-led context, but clearly failed to appreciate the implications of such an approach.
We are simply following through with what we promised we would do.
We are not going to reveal the posture of our border protection assets at sea, by revealing the time, place and intercepting vessel as the previous government did. Nor are we going to run a shipping news service for smugglers to use government information as proof of voyages for payment or to provide intelligence reports on client nationalities.
Within the detention network we are not going to publicise individual self-harm incidents. Such publicity only provides an incentive for this behaviour. Nor are we going to provide open access to centres for media as not only does this raise false hopes among detainees who believe media coverage of their plight will change the outcome of their case, but also can encourage non-compliant behaviour within the centres that can make a difficult job even harder for those who work there.
Access to centres for relevant independent agencies will continue as it did under the previous government to ensure transparency of operations.
We are also not going to give credibility to unsubstantiated claims constantly put up by advocacy groups through the media to undermine the government's tough policy position.
If serious and substantiated allegations are raised then we will deal with them.
I think this peace loving pricks (above) aspirations for Gang Rape of "Aussie Pigs and Sluts" aka. Australian women, girls and children with his fellow Labor Green Loon facilitated 'Asylum Seekers" are now all but over, following the sealing of Australia's borders by the Conservative Abbott Liberal Government.
The suggestion we are not fronting the media is also false. The schedule of regular press conferences is more frequent than anything conducted by any of my Labor predecessors in the role. Every illegal boat arrival has been and will be reported and specific events have been addressed both at the weekly media conferences and separate statements where they have been warranted.Finally, our language calls it as we see it. We are not going to soften our language to condone illegal entry to Australia by boat. We want to stop this practice not socialise it. We do not share the angst of the previous government on this issue that led to their endless double-mindedness and policy paralysis that underpinned the people smuggling trade.
The amount of media interviews by Labor immigration ministers did not make up for their unprecedented border protection failures. As a consequence my focus is on the people being smuggled, their smugglers, our mission and the partners we are working with to achieve our goal.
That is where my focus will remain until the boats are stopped.
Scott Morrison is the federal Immigration Minister
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