By: deemondo
5/11/2009
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tough but humane.
remember that at election time |
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By: weed612001
6/11/2009
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Dont be so cruel astrolin,Andrei is having trouble coping!!
He has himself whipped to a frazzle! |
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By: markus5006
6/11/2009
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"Every time my wife and I hear another one is on it's way we have a good old laugh"
nice to see you laughing at the plight of the less fortunate..
you think its funny that these people have to leave their homelands?
typical liberal supporter.. use ANYONE or ANYTHING (pensioners, kids, soldiers) as political fodder! |
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By: brisisnice
6/11/2009
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| All of you that support the boat people are a minority and the proof is in the lastest poll results. Now some of you might think it's all touchy feely that you want all these boats to come no matter how dangerous. But here is the thing as long as they are out of sight and you don't have to live with them then your life goes on regards less. The NIMBY syndrome. |
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By: humblegenius_fp
6/11/2009
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Not a fan of boats, and it will definatley be an election issue.
For those that dont believe me, look back to 2003.
I will cross back if Labor doesnt fix this issue. I voted back in 03 for the libs and this was a consideration. That and Latham was a physco. |
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By: weed612001
6/11/2009
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"Typical liberal supporter..use ANYONE or ANYTHING (pensioners,kids,soldiers )as polical fodder!"
Kids get a hard time from these cowards from the right.
Come election time they are always ranting about one sort of "crack down" or another as if kids are some sort of alien species that needs eradication. |
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By: brisisnice
6/11/2009
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typical liberal supporter.. use ANYONE or ANYTHING (pensioners, kids, soldiers) as political fodder!
Must of been in hibernation during the labor opposition years. |
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By: andreihicks
6/11/2009
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"Every time my wife and I hear another one is on it's way we have a good old laugh"
Same here. |
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By: brisisnice
6/11/2009
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| Hi Five andre. Keep em coming and Mr popular Rudd is going to have to fend off the swinging voters who will turn on him in a flash. |
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By: deemondo
7/11/2009
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ALEX, the well-spoken leader of a boatload of asylum-seekers held in Indonesia on their way to Australia, is a known people-smuggler previously deported from Canada, according to the Sri Lankan government.
"Alex" emerged as the spokesman for 255 Sri Lankans whose boat was detained last month and which remains moored at the port of Merak in western Java.
The bearded Tamil, who said he picked up his American accent while working at a call centre, refused to reveal his full name, saying he feared that if he identified himself, his family in Sri Lanka would be targeted. But according to Sri Lanka's Foreign Ministry, he is Kulaendrarajah Sanjeev, a 28-year-old people-smuggler who worked out of a base in India.
"Alex", who led an abortive hunger strike demanding that those on board the boat be granted refugee status, was expelled from Canada in 2003, a Sri Lankan statement said.
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"Alex had been involved in human-smuggling for a long time and it is believed that his office is based in India," the statement said.
"His brother, who is now in Canada, is also involved in human-smuggling" and is being sought by Canadian police, it added, giving no further details.
"Alex", or Sanjeev, said the asylum-seekers were in danger in Sri Lanka following the government's defeat of Tamil rebels earlier this year, although he denied they were rebel separatists.
Earlier, the Australian government said another known smuggler, Abraham Lauhenaspessy, known as "Captain Bram", had been found on the boat.
The revelation came before an expected meeting this week between Kevin Rudd's trouble-shooter on asylum- ... |
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By: deemondo
7/11/2009
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| http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/tamil- spokesman-alex-a-smuggler-says-sri-lankan-governme nt/story-e6frg6nf-1225795200705 |
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By: corky1939
7/11/2009
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That's something for the "bleeding hearts" to consider :
The Australian November 07, 2009 12:00AM
ALEX, the well-spoken leader of a boatload of asylum-seekers held in Indonesia on their way to Australia, is a known people-smuggler previously deported from Canada, according to the Sri Lankan government.
The bearded Tamil, who said he picked up his American accent while working at a call centre, refused to reveal his full name, saying he feared that if he identified himself, his family in Sri Lanka would be targeted. But according to Sri Lanka's Foreign Ministry, he is Kulaendrarajah Sanjeev, a 28-year-old people-smuggler who worked out of a base in India.
"Alex", who led an abortive hunger strike demanding that those on board the boat be granted refugee status, was expelled from Canada in 2003, a Sri Lankan statement said
"Alex had been involved in human-smuggling for a long time and it is believed that his office is based in India," the statement said.
"His brother, who is now in Canada, is also involved in human-smuggling" and is being sought by Canadian police, it added, giving no further details.
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By: deemondo
7/11/2009
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there must be another boat due shortly its been over 48 hours.
might get a bit of a run on them this week as they are leaving from different places, |
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By: deemondo
7/11/2009
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this chick needs to get on a boat,,
THE Iranian winner of Sculpture by the Sea's $5000 prize for young sculptors will not be able to pick up her prize because Australia has denied her a visa.
Mona Aghababaee, 27, had hoped to come to Sydney for the event, but Australia's embassy in Tehran rejected her application for a three-month visa.
Her work, an assembly of iron wire forms inspired by the cypress tree, is called Where is the Freedom? - an irony not lost on Adam Courtenay, whose family funds the $5000 prize.
''Where is the freedom in her not being able to come? She should be here to receive it,'' said Mr Courtenay, whose father, the novelist Bryce Courtenay, set up the prize to commemorate his late son, Damon.
Ms Aghababaee told the Herald she was very disappointed but not surprised to be denied entry to Australia.
"The thing that is important for me is they couldn't reject my opinion … I couldn't come to another country myself, but my idea and my thought can go."
An art teacher in Iran, she said of her win: "It is very surprising for me because here I couldn't find any news about the exhibition … I am very happy."
She had "lots of problems" exhibiting her art in Iran, she said, and entered Sculpture by the Sea after finding information about it on the internet. She had to borrow money to pay for the transportation of her work to Australia.
The cypress tree once symbolised freedom in Iran, but today ''its symbolism is simply denied'', Ms Aghababaee said. ''We live in a country that hasn't any freedom.''
The founder of Sculpture by the Sea, David Handley, said the organisation had supported Ms Aghababaee's visa application in writing and had planned to pay her air fares. |
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