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Warning to all Muslims the world over seeking asylum and protection from the manifestations of their faith.
Do not under any circumstances come to Australia, for we are a Nation founded upon Judeo Christian Law and principles and as such Australia is an anathema to any follower of the Paedophile Slave Trader Mohammad's cult of Islam.
There is no ideology more hated and despised in Australia than Islam.You simply would not like it here.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Voltaire French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778)
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Those who demand you believe that Islam is a Religion of Peace also demand you believe in Anthropogenic Global Warming.
Aussie News & Views Jan 1 2009
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"But Communism is the god of discontent, and needs no blessing. All it needs is a heart willing to hate, willing to call envy “justice."
Equality then means the violent destruction of all social and cultural distinctions. Freedom means absolute dictatorship over the people."
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Take Hope from the Heart of Man and you make him a Beast of Prey
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“ If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival.
“There may be even a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves”
Winston Churchill. Pg.310 “The Hell Makers” John C. Grover ISBN # 0 7316 1918 8
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said.
This matters above everything.
—Confucius
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'a socialist is communist without the courage of conviction to say what he really is'.
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Hontar: We must work in the world, your eminence. The world is thus.
Altamirano: No, Señor Hontar. Thus have we made the world... thus have I made it.
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Voltaire said: “If you want to know who rules over you, just find out who you are not permitted to criticize.”


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When those sworn to destroy you,Communism, Socialism,"Change you can Believe in" via their rabid salivating Mongrel Dog,Islam,take away your humanity, your God given Sanctity of Life, Created in His Image , If you are lucky this prayer is maybe all you have left, If you believe in God and his Son,Jesus Christ, then you are, despite the evils that may befall you are better off than most.

Lord, I come before You with a heavy heart. I feel so much and yet sometimes I feel nothing at all. I don't know where to turn, who to talk to, or how to deal with the things going on in my life. You see everything, Lord. You know everything, Lord. Yet when I seek you it is so hard to feel You here with me. Lord, help me through this. I don't see any other way to get out of this. There is no light at the end of my tunnel, yet everyone says You can show it to me. Lord, help me find that light. Let it be Your light. Give me someone to help. Let me feel You with me. Lord, let me see what You provide and see an alternative to taking my life. Let me feel Your blessings and comfort. Amen.
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"The chief weapon in the quiver of all Islamist expansionist movements, is the absolute necessity to keep victims largely unaware of the actual theology plotting their demise. To complete this deception, a large body of ‘moderates’ continue to spew such ridiculous claims as “Islam means Peace” thereby keeping non-Muslims from actually reading the Qur’an, the Sira, the Hadith, or actually looking into the past 1400 years of history. Islamists also deny or dismiss the concept of ‘abrogation’, which is the universal intra-Islamic method of replacing slightly more tolerable aspects of the religion in favor of more violent demands for Muslims to slay and subdue infidels"

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Anthropogenic Global Warming SCAM

Saturday, January 18, 2014

Prayers please for Fady Taiba a Good MAN and a Good Australian.





 This Guy took on the job of dealing with the Drug and Alcohol FUCKED DREGS of Australian Society and LOST 

The following story is about a good man,who's only crime was to work his arse hole out, so as to further the advancement of his wife and children's future,then some drunk piss head took a cheap shot and felled him.
That cowardly punch took from this man everything he lived and worked for.
Fady's wife Daniell and their children represent what Australia is all about,self reliance hard work and the sacrosancy of the family.
Fady's assailant is what Australia is not about,despite the progressive Lefts promotion of all behaviours belief's are equal. 

Aussie News and Views is so sick and tired of reading of these stories, some innocent Australian bashed senseless by some drug fucked piss head via a cowardly sucker punch out of no where.

If Fady Taiba's accused offers a defence of intoxication, then in my opinion he should have added to his sentence extra punishments for been intoxicated whilst assaulting Fady Taiba.
I am one pissed off Australian.
Yes I have a personal interest here, a family member was on more than one occasion similarly assaulted by some Drug Fucked Piss Heads 'just for the fun of it"


Prayers please  for Fady Taiba and his Family

King-hit bouncer Fady Taiba squeezes wife Danielle's hand

Clemntine Cuneo
The Daily Telegraph
September 14,2013

A GENTLE squeeze of the hand was the tonic Danielle Taiba needed to feel from her critically ill husband to know he was fighting to stay alive.


Father-of-four Fady Taiba, 43, has been in a coma for the past week, after allegedly being king hit while working as a bouncer outside a Sydney nightclub.

Each day, Mrs Taiba has sat at his bedside in St Vincent's Hospital's intensive care unit, holding his hand, chatting to him and begging that he pull through.

On Thursday night, a gentle squeeze from her husband of 20-years, was the assurance and encouragement she and their children needed.

PUNCH ROBBED DAD FADY OF A PROUD MOMENT



"My baby squeezed my hand," an emotional Mrs Taiba said. "It's going to be OK, I know it is."

The couple's eldest son Adam, 17, who should be competing in a national swimming competition in Adelaide this week but was too distraught to go, then grabbed his dad's hand to feel it for himself.

"It's reassuring Dad's there," Adam said.

FAMILY OF ACCUSED BASHER FINDS $1 MILLION FOR BAIL

Until then, there had been little response from Mr Taiba, something doctors have told the family is normal for a person in a medically induced coma.

Mr Taiba had part of his skull removed to relieve the bleeding and the pressure on his brain, when he was rushed to hospital, last Friday night.

Doctors have no idea as to the extent of Mr Taiba's injuries, until they slowly wake him from the coma when his condition allows.

"They're telling us that around day 10 they will try and wake him, but it depends on when the swelling goes down," his sister Tess said.

In the meantime, Tess said it's a waiting game.

"It's just devastating seeing him like that. His kids haven't been to school at all since this happened, they're too upset," she said.

"We are all trying to be positive, but you can't help but wonder what the future will be like for him."

Mr Taiba, a first aid instructor, was working a night shift as a security guard at Bar 333 in the CBD, when he was allegedly assaulted.

He took on the extra work to give as much as he could to his talented children, Tess said.

UBS banker James Longworth, 32, has been charged with causing grievous bodily harm with intent, and assault occasioning actual bodily harm. He was granted bail and will face court again on November 5.

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

Sydney's Occupied Territories: Islamic Sociopath's Inc.,Recruiting for Jihad in Syria to fight with al-Qaeda affiliates

Syrian mission: Australians recruited to fight with al-Qaeda affiliates

Rachel Olding
SMH
January 17, 2014.

A Sydney man who died in Syria with his wife was allegedly recruited to the battlefield by a radical disability pensioner living in the western suburbs.

Fairfax Media can reveal that Yusuf Ali was one of six men allegedly sent to the frontline by Hamdi Alqudsi, 39, to fight with terrorist organisations in the country's civil war.

Mr Alqudsi, from St Helen's Park, was charged in December with recruiting, funding and organising for the men to travel to Syria to fight with Jabhat al-Nusra and other al-Qaeda affiliates.

Despite dismantling Mr Alqudsi's alleged recruitment network, the Australian Federal Police fear more are operating, fuelling a constant flow of Australians going to Syria.

''Our real concern is getting a handle on the number of people going,'' AFP Deputy Commissioner Peter Drennan said.

It is believed Mr Ali and his wife, Amira, 22, were killed by the Free Syrian Army on Saturday after being caught in factional fighting between rebel groups.

Mr Ali was known as Tyler Hunt and Tyler Casey before he converted to Islam four years ago during a chance dinner with a Muslim man in his Gold Coast apartment block.

He was born into a large Christian family in Colorado, in the US, where his parents and siblings were in mourning on Thursday.

His heartbroken mother, Kristine Hunt, posted a photo from the last time she saw her son, saying she was too distraught to pick up the phone or respond to condolences.

''It's just been too hard,'' she said.

His family, including cousins in Queensland and half-brother Dario Hunt, a professional basketballer in the US, did not wish to comment.

Mr Ali married Amira Karroum who had been to school in Queensland in 2012 and they settled in Granville, in Sydney's west, to be closer to the Muslim community, Amira's uncle said.

And it was there that they came into contact with Mr Alqudsi through attending a network of mosques and lectures.

Mr Alqudsi, who also goes by the name Ibrahim Galiel, participated in the violent Muslim protests in Hyde Park last year and has two wives, one of whom - Carnita Matthews, caused controversy of her own in 2011 when she refused to remove her burqa for police conducting a random breath test.

Carnita Matthews thug minders, linked to Radical Muslim Cleric

Carnita Matthews Driving Record
Carnita Matthews husband,Ibrahim Galiel claims “….my wife has suffered”
Australia’s Multicultural Media reports Carnita Matthews to seek costs and compensation from NSW Tax payers.
Judge Defends Decision & Carnita Matthews son Defends Lieing Mother on Sydney Radio
Lieing Muslim Carnita Matthews and former Guantanamo Bay inmate Mamdouh Habib engage in Muslim Festival of LIES and Deceit
Lieing Muslim Hag in a Bag’s supporters aka.Muslim Savages, charge Media and pedestrians whilst invoking the Head Hunters Chant of "allah ackbar" following the appeal of Carnita Matthews been upheld in Sydney Court.
Lieing Muslim, HAG in a BAG, Carnita Matthews Sentenced to six months in Jail, for Lies and Deception,by Sydney, Campbelltown Magistrate.

During Mr Alqudsi's court appearance in December he claimed he could only raise $500 bail because he lived on a modest disability pension. However, a section of the Muslim community mustered the required $10,000 to secure his release.

The whereabouts of the remaining five men he allegedly sent to Syria are unknown but they have not returned to Australia.

A seventh man, Amin Iman Mohamad, from Lidcombe, was arrested at Brisbane Airport in December and charged with preparing to engage in foreign hostile activities.

Another participant in the Hyde Park riot, 23-year-old Mohamed Zubhi, from Liverpool, is also in Syria.

Mr Zubhi, who once told ABC radio that Muslim youth ''don't want to apologise [to our leaders] for our behaviour'' during the protest, left Australia in March last year.

According to research by the Norwegian terrorism expert Thomas Hegghammer, one in nine Westerners who train or fight overseas with a jihadist insurgency group returns to become involved in a terrorist plot.

Federal Attorney-General George Brandis said he remained ''deeply concerned for the safety of Australians in Syria'' due to ''ongoing military conflict, kidnappings and terrorist attacks''.

Mr Brandis also said the government was concerned about the radicalisation of those who returned to Australia with capabilities acquired through fighting or training with extremist groups.



Dead Australian based Islamic Sociopath Yusuf Ali recruited to fight for Al Qaeda and its affiliate Jabh at al Nusra in Syria

Dead Muslim Australian based Jihadist Amira Karroum an "abusive" "threatening" "vandal" "you don't know who I know" according to neighbours in unit complex.


Omar Halaby 19 year old Muslim Insurgent / Rioter and Disability Pensioner.



Muslim rioter and vandal Omar Halaby spared jail following September 15 2012 Sydney CBD Muslim Insurgency Riots..Life on the pension is a riot for Omar


What makes the "Mufti of Sydney's Occupied Territories and his fellow insurgents "feel like we is on cloud nine" ?



Sydney's Muslim Insurgency Riots Aftermath: Spin Doctors and apologists still performing CPR on Multiculturalism.











































Amir Mohebbifar Iranian "Asylum seeker" / Insurgent ,denied bail following charges of RAPE of 19 year old Girl on Sydney's ANZAC Bridge

Accused Sydney rapist denied bail

Daily Telegraph
January 17, 2014

A MAN accused of raping a young woman on a Sydney bridge has been denied bail.

Amir Mohebbifar, 26, was before Sydney's Central Local Court on Friday, charged with several offences including sexual intercourse without consent and aggravated sexual assault.

Mohebbifar, who required a Persian translator, didn't apply for bail, which was formally refused by magistrate Les Mabbutt.

It's alleged the Redfern resident sexually assaulted a 19-year-old woman on Anzac Bridge in the early hours of Thursday morning.

He will remain in custody until his matter is mentioned in Central Local Court on March 11.

Mohebbifar will appear via video link.




Sydney's ANZAC Bridge

Friday, January 17, 2014

Great White Sharks closer to you than you think.





Victorian Legal system : Derryn Hinch off to Jail for naming Paedophile



The Human Headline gives his final interview moments before his arrest.

"Coward Punch" (Knock Out Punch) victim Daniel Christie farewelled



One-punch victim Daniel Christie farewelled at Sydney funeral

ABC
January 17,2014

Family and friends of Kings Cross assault victim Daniel Christie have farewelled him at a funeral service in Sydney.

Governor-General Quentin Bryce was among the mourners who attended the service for the 18-year-old at the Hillsong Church in Sydney's Baulkham Hills.



The teenager's family switched off his life support last week, 11 days after he was knocked unconscious by a single punch in Kings Cross on New Year's Eve.

His family paid tribute to him as "caring, exceptional" and "a beacon of morality with a heart of gold".

"I cannot adequately express the joy I've experienced being Daniel's mother," Maureen Christie told the service.

Daniel's father, Michael Christie, said his son was a beautiful young man whose death was "inexplicable".

"I'm very proud of this summary I wrote on his resume: Daniel has an impressive physical presence. He's well spoken and presents well with good language skills. These physical attributes support a mature respect for others and himself, honesty, integrity and a good work ethic," he said.

"He was very embarrassed by me writing so glowingly about him. I told him, 'It was only the truth' and [that], after a minute or so, anyone would understand that every word written there was true."

Mr Christie urged politicians to take action on alcohol-fuelled violence.

"It's up to our elected members to set frameworks and guidelines to stop this insanity," he said.

"If change is to be, it's up to each and every one of us."

Ms Bryce said there was "no place for gratuitous violence" in Australia.

"The whole of our country joins in giving our deepest sympathy to Mr and Mrs Christie in the devastating of the circumstances that led to the death of their very precious son, Daniel," she said.


  Members of the Christie Family embrace and console each other 
outside the Hillsong Church

A private cremation and wake will be held after the service.

New South Wales premier Barry O'Farrell said it would not be appropriate for him to attend as it could politicise the event.

Mr Christie's family have spoken out about the term "king hit" and say the term "coward punch" is more appropriate.

They have called for changes so that people can go out "without experiencing mindless violence".

The man accused of assaulting Mr Christie, 25-year-old builder Shaun McNeill, has been charged with murder and has been refused bail.

Daniel Christie's death has renewed pressure on the New South Wales Government to take tougher action on alcohol-fuelled violence.

The Bureau of Crime Statistics says that while the number of assaults inside licensed premises in Kings Cross has dropped by 20 per cent since 2008, the number of assaults outside licensed premises has not changed.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has added his voice to the debate, calling attacks such as that on Mr Christie "appalling".

"I am appalled by what seems to be happening in certain trouble spots here in this great city of ours," he said.

He said he is concerned by the binge-drinking culture among young people.


Thomas Kelly Murder accused Kieran Loveridge faces Court

Thomas Kelly accused Killer appears in Court supporter knocks Cameraman unconscious outside court

Funeral of Murder Victim, 22 year old Patrick Crowe.

Accused Murderer of Thomas Kelly appears in Court as supporters knock Ch9 cameraman unconscious outside.

Vale. Captain Paul McKay.. Thanks Mate, Rest in Peace


Australian soldier, Captain Paul McKay,missing in up state New York in freezing conditions

Sydney's Occupied Territories: Failed street abduction of woman, pleas for help ignored



Thursday January 16, 2014

Police have released a computer-generated image of a man as part of investigations into the alleged attempted abduction of a woman at Liverpool earlier in the week.

It's alleged the incident occurred at about 4:20pm on Monday 13th of January. The 29-year-old woman says she was standing at the corner of Railway Street, near the intersection of Bigge Street, when a small red hatchback containing four men stopped in front of her. She's told police one of the men allegedly tried to force her into the car.
Police issue COMFIT of man as they investigate attempted abduction - Liverpool

NSW Police
Wednesday, 15 January 2014 01:58:25 PM

Police have released a computer-generated image of a man as part of investigations into the attempted abduction of a woman at Liverpool earlier in the week

About 4:20pm, Monday 13 January 2014, a 29-year-old woman was standing at the corner of Railway Street, near the intersection of Bigge Street, when a small red hatchback containing four men stopped in front of her.

A man got out of the front passenger seat and told the woman to get in the vehicle. When she refused, the man grabbed her and attempted to force her into the car.

The woman shouted out before the man let go of her and left in the vehicle.

Detectives from Liverpool Local Area Command are continuing investigations into the incident and have released a computer-generated image of a man they would like to speak to.

He is described as being of Mediterranean/Middle Eastern appearance, olive complexion, aged in his mid 20s, 170-175cm tall with a medium build, brown close-shaved hair, facial stubble, brown eyes and hairy arms.

At the time he was wearing a navy t-shirt, a thick gold chain around his neck, beige cargo pants and white sports shoes.

Liverpool Local Area Command’s Acting Crime Manager, Inspector Dean Johnstone, has expressed his concern over the incident and appealed for witnesses to come forward.

“This was a random and brazen attack committed in broad daylight which has left a young woman scared for her safety.

“At that time of the afternoon Railway Street would have been busy and I would ask anyone who witnessed the incident, or saw the car travelling through the area, to come forward.

“We have also released a computer-generated image of the man and urge anyone who recognises his face and may know who he is to contact police,” said Inspector Johnstone.

Police are urging anyone with information about this incident to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or use the Crime 

Stoppers online reporting page: https://www.police.nsw.gov.au/. Information you provide will be treated in the strictest of confidence. We remind people they should not report crime information via our Facebook and Twitter pages.

Operation Sovereign Borders: Royal Australian Navy accused of entering Indonesian waters in fight against Insurgents

Navy in breach of Jakarta's waters during Operation Sovereign Borders

Brendan Nicholson and Paul Maley 
The Australian
January 17,2014





Insurgents and their Labor Green Loon Progressive supporters (sponsors) whine they were tricked by Royal Australian Navy and repelled to base camp in Indonesia.

AN investigation by the Australian Defence Force has confirmed that at least one Royal Australian Navy vessel implementing the Coalition's border-protection policy has breached Indonesian territorial waters.

The Australian has also confirmed border-protection authorities have begun using lifeboats to return asylum-seekers to Indonesia, a method used for a boatload of people intercepted near Christmas Island last week.

During the past week the navy had been investigating allegations made by people-smugglers and asylum-seekers that Australian Border Protection Command vessels had breached Indonesia's 12-nautical mile limit while towing boats back from Australian waters.

They also claimed that crew members mistreated asylum-seekers by holding them against hot engine parts to inflict burns and by withholding food supplies.

All of these allegations were strongly rejected by Defence Force chief David Hurley, Immigration Minister Scott Morrison and the general in charge of Operation Sovereign Borders, Angus Campbell.

They said the Australian personnel conducted themselves professionally and responsibly.

The Australian has confirmed that the navy's examination of records and global positioning system data revealed yesterday that at least one vessel on border-protection duty under Operation Sovereign Borders entered Indonesian waters while returning an asylum-seeker boat.

While the Abbott government has thrown a cloak of secrecy over border-protection operations, two groups of asylum-seekers have claimed in interviews that they were on boats taken back to Indonesia by the navy.

They claimed that some who objected were handcuffed and otherwise restrained and ill-treated.

One boat was said to have been picked up near Darwin on January 1 and towed for five days before being cut loose near Rote Island. Another was said to have been towed back in December.

Naval crews have been caught between the need to avoid breaching Indonesian waters and ensuring that boats they are turning or towing back to that country arrive safely.

In Jakarta, a spokesman for Djoko Suyanto, the Co-ordinating Minister for Politics, Security and Law, said there had not been an Indonesian complaint about any breach of its territorial waters.

"We have no evidence" of a breach, the spokesman said.

He said the Co-ordinating Minister's office was aware of only two asylum-seeker boats turned back by the Australians, which landed on Rote Island on December 19 and January 6.

About 90 people from those boats were being transferred to immigration detention centres in Sumatra, Riau and 

Central Java, he said. Mr Djoko's office has been given top responsibility for handling the boatpeople dispute with Australia.

The Australian has been told a large lifeboat was used to ferry passengers of a boat en route to Christmas Island back to Indonesia. The boat was intercepted by border protection personnel after being observed by the crew of an RAAF Orion patrol aircraft.

It is unclear whether anyone went into the water at any point, but sources agree the asylum boat was disabled and that the Australian Navy was on the scene.

"The boat was sinking," one source said.

It is understood the boat was deliberately sabotaged by some of the passengers, rendering it unseaworthy.

Customs and Border Protection Command placed the asylum-seekers on a large lifeboat, deemed by the authorities to be a "safe platform", and returned it to Indonesia.

It is not clear whether the boat sailed to Indonesia under its own steam or whether it was escorted by Indonesian officials. Nor is it known how many asylum-seekers were on the boat, nor where the boat eventually landed.

Mr Morrison declined to comment on the incident.

"For operational security reasons, the government does not confirm or otherwise comment on reports of on-water activities in relation to Operation Sovereign Borders or disclose details of any operations," he said.

Mr Morrison also denied reports Customs and Border Protection personnel had fired warning shots into the air as they intercepted an asylum boat, which was reportedly then redirected by Australian authorities back to Indonesia.

"Without commenting on any specific alleged incident, I can confirm that no shots have been fired at any time by any persons involved in Operation Sovereign Borders since the operation commenced," Mr Morrison said.

Two days ago, Lieutenant-General Campbell confirmed the purchase of lifeboats, although he would not say what they would be used for. It was not clear whether the lifeboat used in the operation was one referred to by General Campbell or another craft.

Indonesia's Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa criticised the Abbott government's apparent intention to put asylum-seekers into lifeboats and escort them back to Indonesia as "a slippery slope".

Dr Natalegawa's comments suggest the Indonesians will take an even dimmer view of using lifeboats than they do of turning back fishing boats carrying asylum-seekers.

"It's one thing to turn back the actual boats on which (asylum-seekers) have been travelling but another issue when they have actually been transferred to another boat and actually been facilitated and actually told to go that direction," he told the ABC.

"To be zeroing in on issues ... in a manner that tends to divide is not helpful."

Last week's incident is the first known occasion when lifeboats were used to ferry asylum-seekers back into Indonesian waters.

Bill Shorten said he respected the work of ADF personnel but he attacked what he said was a government "culture of secrecy".

"I don't want to see Australian servicemen and servicewomen caught up as the meat in an Abbott-Morrison secrecy sandwich on our boats," the Opposition Leader said.

The government has offered Labor's immigration spokesman Richard Marles and Mr Shorten a full briefing on progress in Operation Sovereign Borders - an offer to be taken up when parliament resumes next month.

Additional reporting: Paige Taylor, Peter Alford

Insurgents and their Labor Green Loon Progressive supporters (sponsors) whine they were tricked by Royal Australian Navy and repelled to base camp in Indonesia.

Asylum seekers say they were tricked by navy

Michael Bachelard
SMH
January 17, 2014



Operation Sovereign Borders: Royal Australian Navy accused of entering Indonesian waters in fight against Insurgents


Australia has for the first time used one of its new lifeboats to send a group of 56 asylum seekers back to Indonesia in a move that is likely to plunge the bilateral relationship to a new low.

Fairfax Media has interviewed a large group of would-be refugees from Pakistan and Bangladesh who scuttled their wooden vessel six days ago in an attempt to avoid being pushed back to Indonesia.

Instead they were picked up by an Australian Navy vessel, HMAS Stuart, and kept overnight before being transferred to a Customs and Border Protection vessel.



The men said they were tricked into thinking they were going to be taken to Christmas Island. But they were put on a small, bright orange lifeboat-style vessel close to the Indonesian shore, with only enough fuel to return there.

The Indonesian man who captained their wooden asylum boat was put at the helm of the Australian lifeboat to complete the three-hour journey.

The news came as Fairfax Media confirmed that Australia escorted another boat back on December 26, bringing to five the total number of confirmed instances of turn-backs, despite Indonesia’s long-running objections to the practice.




Pakistani asylum seeker, Fazal Qadir, 28, said he had set sail from an island off Java on January 5 bound for Christmas Island with 56 people from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq and Palestine on board, along with an Indonesian captain and one crew member. There was one woman with a 20-month-old toddler.

After about three or four days at sea, he said the group was spotted by an Australian aeroplane flying overhead. The boat was already leaking.

"We were very happy [when we saw them] because we thought when the boat went into the water, then they must receive us,” Mr Qadir said.


A sheet from a document given to them by Australian Customs.
All of the people on board already knew of other vessels which had been returned to Indonesia, so were determined to be rescued rather than escorted back. One passenger took a piece of wood and prised open the hole that was already in the hull. Others rocked the boat.

When it foundered, two Australian speedboats reached them and the 12 navy personnel on board told the asylum seekers to cling to the side. The toddler was provided with a life jacket, Mr Qadir said.

About 20 minutes later, two Australian Navy vessels, numbered 153 (HMAS Stuart) and 88 (HMAS Maitland) came into view.

Mr Qadir said the group was loaded onto the Stuart and they steamed towards Christmas Island. The men were told, and believed, they would be taken there. But the ship did not dock at the island. "We were going around Christmas all the time. For two days we were in the navy ship," Mr Qadir said.

The group was photographed and interviewed by navy personnel. They gave their names and were provided with white, numbered wrist bands.

On the second day they were transferred to a Customs and Border Protection boat that they could not identify. "We could see Christmas [Island]," the men said.

For three days they remained on the Customs boat.

During this time the men were desperate to call their families to tell them they were all right.

"We wanted to call our home because our families were scared their children were dead, but the navy and Customs would not give us a phone. They said we could call when we reached Christmas Island but they lied to us."

Finally, the men say, they were tricked once more. Mr Qadir said a small orange boat with a weather canopy was tied to the back of the Customs ship. They were told to board it because it would ferry them to Christmas Island.

At the last minute, though, a Customs officer came on board, tossed the asylum seekers a four-page document in a range of languages, and returned to the large ship, which sailed away.

The document, dated December 2013, reads: "You only have enough fuel to reach land in Indonesia. You do not have enough fuel to continue your voyage to Australia.

"The master of your vessel is now responsible for your safety. You must co-operate with the master and not act in a manner that risks your safety. You are responsible for your own actions. Your vessel is not equipped for a voyage to Australia. It is not safe to continue your voyage to Australia.

"If you continue on your journey, the master and crew of your boat will face harsh penalties, which may include a jail term."

The master was the Indonesian captain who had brought them from Java. They showed the compasses, GPS system and satellite phone that were provided with the orange boat.

The men said they were dropped very close to Indonesia. It took only three hours to reach shore.

They and the captain abandoned the Australian boat and walked into the jungle. They said they walked for five hours, including crossing a flood-swollen river, to find help.

They returned to their former houses in the West Java town of Cisarua late on Wednesday night.

On Wednesday Indonesian foreign minister Marty Natalegawa described the lifeboat option as "a slippery slope".

"It's one thing to turn back the actual boats on which they have been travelling but another issue, when they are transferred onto another boat and facilitated and told to go in that direction,'' he said.

Immigration Minister Scott Morrison declined to comment on the asylum seekers' treatment.

A statement from his office said: "For operational security reasons, the government does not confirm or otherwise comment on reports of on-water activities in relation to Operation Sovereign Borders or disclose details of any operations.''

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