Oh yes. Hypocrites. Every single one of them:
ABC worries KRudd is sending Muslim boat people to a Christian country
- RIOTING Iranians on Nauru reportedly have taken detention staff hostage in what may be a violent response to Kevin Rudd’s PNG asylum seeker solution.
ABC Pacific correspondent Sean Dorney warns of possible “culture shock” if refugees are resettled in Papua New Guinea:Â
Many of these people found to be genuine refugees will have little in common with Papua New Guineans.
PNG is overwhelmingly Christian.
Imagine similar concerns ever being raised by the ABC about refugees settling in Australia.
UPDATE
The Age’s Michael Gordon is a bit down on PNG:
The sugar has been taken off the table, and replaced with arsenic.
KRudd’s boat deal. The questions
– What is the cost? It is ominous that Rudd has not said what he’s paying PNG.
– How will it be paid for? The carbon tax “cut” is being paid for by a tax change that has already put scores of people out of work and threatens the jobs of hundreds more.
– Was dressing this toughness up by increasing the refugee intake to 27,000 smart? Only two years ago our refugee intake was half that, and still judged generous. Refugees tend to struggle to find work. Are we building a problem for the future?
– When the facilities at PNG be ready to receive all these boat people? Last year we were promised 600 people would be sent to Manus Island. There are just 200 people there in accommodation so bad that children were brought back to Australia.
– Will PNG take all boat people, as Rudd claimed, or some, as the PNG Prime Minister hinted?
– Will exempting, for now, women and children actually encourage people smugglers to stuff boats with them?
– Will PNG uphold their end of the deal? The PNG Opposition is against it. The deal will be reviewed in just one year. Will the cost then rise?
– Will PNG uphold their end of the deal in ways we can live with?
Right now the most important question I want answered is: what will this cost?
And politically the question still is: should we really praise Rudd for spending billions to fix a boat people catastrophe of his own making? Why did it take Labor five years to fix a disaster created when Rudd scrapped the tough border laws, opening the doors to over 46,000 boat people, and luring more than 1000 people to their deaths?
That question about Rudd’s role is like the biggest question about his deal: how much has Rudd’s blundering cost?
Rudd’s boat deal: and now the bleeding hearts… much more here
How much does this cost?
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