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sprintcyclist
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by sprintcyclist » Wed May 25, 2011 8:30 am
...............The Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak and Ms Gillard agreed to enter into a new bilateral arrangement as part of the Regional Co-operation Framework agreed to at the recent Bali Process Ministerial Conference in Bali.
Mr Bowen said the exchange would cost $292 million over the forward estimates period.
"I know this will be controversial," Mr Bowen said. "I expect protests, I expect legal challenges, I expect resistance..................
http://www.couriermail.com.au/ipad/the- ... 6052018224
it'll cost us nigh on $300 M to bring in 4000 illegals
whereas the man the leftys can't let go of :-
...........The Immigration Department revealed the figure to a late-night Senate estimates hearing this week.
Immigration official Dermot Casey said 1,637 asylum seekers had been held on Nauru and Papua New Guinea's Manus Island under the Howard government's Pacific solution.
Advertisement: Story continues below "The cost of the program was $289 million between September 2001 and 30 June 2007," Mr Casey told the legal and constitutional affairs committee............
http://news.theage.com.au/national/offs ... -1twz.html
spent that much over a 6 year period.
And notice how the numbers are a fraction.
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Pastafarian
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by Pastafarian » Wed May 25, 2011 11:08 am
Sprintcyclist, can you take down the leftard crusher part? Posting numerous news articles without context and without backing them up hardly counts as crushing. Its like being hit with a wet newspaper.
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by sprintcyclist » Thu May 26, 2011 11:38 pm
sure pasta
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by Pastafarian » Fri May 27, 2011 9:38 am
Right Wing is the Natural Progression.
All else is retardation.
Sounds Orwellian. I like it.
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by Jovial Monk » Fri May 27, 2011 3:12 pm
Because he is a braindead idiot who believes every bit of self-contradictory crap the national shit sheet publishes.
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by sprintcyclist » Sat May 28, 2011 6:56 pm
Rainbow Moonlight wrote:Sprint- the 4000 won't be "illegals". How do you figure that they are?
the 4000 ARE illegals
let any stay here and countless thousands will follow
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by Rainbow Moonlight » Sun May 29, 2011 8:32 pm
Illegal immigrants haven't been approved on refugee grounds. The people who come on boats themselves are also not "illegals" - many of them have proved to be genuine refugees.
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by sprintcyclist » Mon May 30, 2011 10:48 am
refugee status is something granted to someone by a country
if they just rock up on their own behest, they are illegals.
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by Pastafarian » Mon May 30, 2011 11:59 am
sprintcyclist wrote:refugee status is something granted to someone by a country
if they just rock up on their own behest, they are illegals.
Semantics, really.
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