It amazes me that in these days of incredible border security a boat can get all the way down the wa coast and not be detected til it enters the harbour?????? How much money do the spend on this sh$t????? It would be just as effective to post a couple of people at the mouth of the harbour with signal fires. The current money may be better spent elsewhere aparently.

dan berry said...
It amazes me that in these days of incredible border security a boat can get all the way down the wa coast and not be detected til it enters the harbour?????? How much money do the spend on this sh$t????? It would be just as effective to post a couple of people at the mouth of the harbour with signal fires. The current money may be better spent elsewhere aparently.

Yeah the whole idea border security is a joke. Unfortunately its a joke that costs the Australian taxpayers billions of dollars. What does the Australian taxpayer get in return? Nothing much besides the warm feeling knowing that the average border security worker is probably paid twice as much to do a quarter of the work as the average taxpayer.

www.homeaffairs.gov.au/

Not bad salaries and conditions but not enough for some as evident with corruption in the Customs Service.


Plus all the money being wasted on those offshore detention centres. Why on earth is all that money being wasted on Christmas Island? By any stretch of the imagination, Christmas Island is not part of Australia geographically.

Imagining their reaction when landing at Gero; "Allah, why have you delivered us to Purgatory?"...

The Chinese I think it is, have the best practice in place for Boat People.... If they spot them crossing into the boarder around them, they give 2 warnings that the boat will be fired upon.

On the third warning they shoot a nice sized round beside the boat. if they do not turn around they sink the boat, pick up the people and send them home again. no food, ** accommodation and poor service, makes the boat people think twice about going there again..

deejay8204 said...
The Chinese I think it is, have the best practice in place for Boat People.... If they spot them crossing into the boarder around them, they give 2 warnings that the boat will be fired upon.

On the third warning they shoot a nice sized round beside the boat. if they do not turn around they sink the boat, pick up the people and send them home again. no food, ** accommodation and poor service, makes the boat people think twice about going there again..

About 25 years ago a Chinese tug boat arrived on the mid north coast of NSW, full of Chinese. The boat which was pretty big, washed up on Scotts Head Beach, which is a bit south of Nambucca Heads. We went and had a look at it. I think this was around the time of the Tiananemin Square massacre and when Bob Hawke had a little cry over it. Funny thing is he is over there now enjoying the hospitality of those murderers.

The Chinese apparently took off into the bush and they were all picked up by the coppers. They were dressed in suits and business clothing.

Anyway who would want to escape to China? North Koreans?

Do you reckon they had a look at Port Hedland and went, " Bugger that!!"

Perfect example of out of the frying pan and into the fire

todays report was that they sailed straight from srilanka and swung south under the patrol zones.
I get a sense that the smugglers are waking up to a potential new route,
and cutting out all the indonesian middlemen, thereby increasing their profitmargins
sounds like good business sense to me

stuk said...
Sri Lanka...can they play cricket

Was there a decent leg spinner on board? We could pay for a plane trip to England in late June.

The sponsor name on the boat is the company that gave the boat to help them after the tsunami, they are going to be very impressed when the boat is going to be burnt! I would'nt mind to salvage it..... probabely nice construction made of iron wood? and very seaworthy, nice shell that can be made into a big cruiser with plenty of accomodation. Where do I apply?

there ya go its official my memory has left me
I do remember the new mex running up at explosives though(I think)
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