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Australia ignores Indonesia's calls for answers on boat payment claim

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If they did not make the payments there would already have been flat out denial. They did it.

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Abbott refused again on Sunday to deny allegations

Slick, this one.

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The Australian Government is not to blame for this. They are doing everything they can to protect illegal immigrants from entering their shores. If such drastic measures are not taken then the asylum seeking situation will never end...

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@MikeH

Whether you think this is a good idea or not, it was completely illegal. The Australian government can't just decide to start handing out stacks of taxpayer's cash to foreigners through a secret program which the Commonwealth Parliament knows nothing about and hasn't approved.

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however...the same as with America...none of them are considering the poor people who are trying to escape dreadful conditions in order flee to an at least minimally better life in a new country only to face much worse or even death at the hands of those who were supposed to be their saviours

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Using taxpayers money to pay criminals to do the dirty work is an outrage, and surely illegal. Just hoping this disgrace - once confirmed - will bring about the downfall of the morally and ethically bankrupt conservatives, especially the pea-brained Abbot. Our reputation abroad is being trashed daily by this grubby mob in power.

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I'm not saying I approve of the alleged payment, but the clue is in Abbott's phrase "whatever it takes". Australia cannot have mass immigration of people who have not been screened and who seek to enter by throwing themselves onto its territory and expect it to accept them just because they've arrived. That is unfair to the thousands of refugees who have applied through the proper process and are awaiting a decision from the Australian Government. The problem is that if the boat people do get to Australian territory the ever-ready machinery of do-gooders, human rights lawyers and overly-liberal talking heads will swing into action and initiate legal action to effectively challenge the government's right to decide whether a person is accepted or not. This particular immigration issue has been a serious one for many years now, and whether one likes it or not, this government has been the first one to take really effective measures to halt the flow of boat immigrants.

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