Comments on: Memories

By: Lefty E

Lefty E — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:25:24 +0000

Yep – and by many refugee accounts the Indos are considered soft touches compared to the Malaysians.

By: David Irving (no relation)

David Irving (no relation) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:16:39 +0000

Not to mention the boatload of reffos that just got brassed up (with injuries) because they couldn’t afford to bribe the second Indeonesian patrol boat that encountered them.

By: Lefty E

Lefty E — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:11:00 +0000

In case anyone was STILL wondering why asylum seekers in Indonesia aren’t considered to be receiving adequate protection.

http://www.theage.com.au/world/indonesia-moves-to-deport-130-asylum-seekers-20091115-igeb.html

By: Jack Strocchi

Jack Strocchi — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:08:49 +0000

Sir Henry Casingbroke@#60 Nov 9th, 2009 at 5:36 pm

I do not think the punters give a rutti, Durutti, any more, a few years on. Where is the hysteria on talkback. Nah, it seems we’ve moved on..

Wrong. Over the past decade there has been no change in this country's underlying public opposition to people-smuggled asylum-seekers. In SEP 2001 the Morgan poll reported that 68% of those polled wanted boat people "put back to sea". In NOV 2009 Essential Research poll reported that 66% of those polled wanted boat people "discourag[ed]...and turned away". See above for more detail. No doubt the fringe hysteria about "unauthorized maritime arrivals" has ebbed. But the mainstream opinion is still solidly and overwhelmingly opposed to boat people. This is despite a massive and sustained attempt by elite liberal opinion makers to brow-beat the populus on this issue. Rudd knows this and knows that if the ALP are perceived as "soft on people smugglers" it will lose votes amongst blue-collars supporters. That is why he is prepared to take a tougher line, hoping he will neutralise the issue.

By: KEiThY

KEiThY — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:21:53 +0000

This, the icy hand of John Howard rising up to reveal its awfully smelly self, is very disturbing: it shows the depths to which these Libs have had to sink just to keep their brand name alive in the MSM! TheY aRe sPOOkeD by the Rudd and Gillard team! Prepare for a landslide as the Lib supporters will reckon the fastest way to right this mess is to send a warning shot through the election result rather than the polls: silly them don’t realise how close it all is…! ***I call that we are witnessing history!***

By: tssk

tssk — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:35:41 +0000

For those wondering what our version of “in the beltway” would be…surely it would be “inside the roundabout”

For those inside it’s ewasy to think your finger is on the pulse..after all you are literally the centre of the world.

Meanwhile those of us who aren’t trollumists are ignoring the lunatics picnicing in the centre of the roundabout…the other traffic is the important thing.

And getting home.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:07:06 +0000

@57 – I like the National Press Club membership one, Tim. Wouldn’t have had the foggiest myself what the Federal Highway is.

By: Sir Henry Casingbroke

Sir Henry Casingbroke — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:36:04 +0000

Yes Durutti, hitting a dozen radio stations in 15 minutes or whatever certainly looked like a white knuckle, screaming heebie-jeebies type situation, all the time repeating words such as “calm” and “methodical”. It seemed as if the government’s script was written by Douglas Adams.

I do not think the punters give a rutti, Durutti, any more, a few years on. Where is the hysteria on talkback. Nah, it seems we’ve moved on. Maybe it is because the Sri Lankans can play cricket (even if a few of them are chuckers). And another thing, Bomber Beazley wasn’t exactly dead against Howard’s policy then and look where it got him. (Please don’t say Washington, Chris.)

By: David Irving (no relation)

David Irving (no relation) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:52:22 +0000

the circle jerk that is the commetariat

Enquiring minds want to know which of them ends up with the soggy Sao, adrian.

By: adrian

adrian — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:42:07 +0000

And we’ve also had the unedifying spectacle of a vist from an American media baron being accorded the status of a royal visit with every morsel of his holiness’s latest utterance re Rudd analysed for possible criticism.

Meanwhile the circle jerk that is the commetariate continues apace, with anybody capable of independent thought long since excluded or retired from the Canberra press gallery, leaving the motley collection of hacks, has-beens, Liberal press release recyclers and sundry nobodies parading their worn out opinions and carping criticisms as revelations from on high.