Archive for October 16th, 2009
Bring Brinda here
Posted by John, October 16th, 2009 - under Racism, Refugees, Sri Lanka, Tamils.
Tags: Australian politics
Comments: 1
Apparently a 9 year old Tamil girl, Brinda, is such a threat to the very existence of Australia that our beloved Prime Minister himself rang the Indonesian president to ask him to stop her boat and the 260 Tamil asylum seekers on it from reaching Australian waters. Good one Christian Kev. Here’s part of what […]
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1000 new Specsavers jobs; boat people ready to fill them
Posted by John, October 16th, 2009 - under Refugees.
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On Facebook recently Lindsay Tanner, Australia’s Minister for Finance and Deregulation, talked about attending the opening of the new Specsavers headquarters in Melbourne. They announced 1000 new jobs. So I wrote this on Lindsay’s Facebook account: ‘I know 260 people who would love to work there if the Government you belong to had the human […]
Refugees: from Howard to Rudd the racist song remains the same
Posted by John, October 16th, 2009 - under Refugees, Sri Lanka.
Tags: Australian Council of Trade Unions, Australian Labor Party, Australian politics
Comments: 1
Nowhere is the policy continuity from John Howard to Kevin Rudd clearer than in the Labor Government’s treatment of refugees. The Indonesian solution – getting Indonesia to stop refugees from arriving in Australia – is in fact worse (if one can have degrees of inhumanity) than the Pacific solution. And so now 260 Sri Lankan refugees sit in a boat […]