the alps neverending mistakes

[sprintcyclist]

here's one for the leftys massive list of blues.
starting with a recent one

Immigration Minister Chris Bowen has been left red-faced after trumpeting a massive decrease in boat arrivals only to later realise his claims did not stack up.

In a press release on Monday, Mr Bowen used new departmental figures to support a claim the number of boat arrivals had decreased from 2186 in the first three months of 2010 to 727 in the same period this year.

But several hours later the minister was forced to issue an embarrassing "clarification" when his office realised the real number from March 2010 was in fact 756 - just 29 more than this year.

The 2186 figure actually relates to 2010's June quarter, when calmer weather usually leads to more arrivals.

There were 1735 arrivals in the 2010-11 September quarter and 1606 in the December quarter.

Mr Bowen's office said the mistake was made during the production of the press release.

The new Department of Immigration and Citizenship figures showed asylum seekers - arriving by both boat and plane - made 8150 protection visa applications in 2009-10.

They have made 5928 in the nine months to March 30, 2011.

But there has been a dramatic reduction in the proportion of boat arrivals being given protection visas - down from 91.9 per cent in the March quarter last year to 48.9 per cent in the same period this year.

Mr Bowen has promised such statistical information will be updated and posted on the department's website every quarter.

Opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison said Mr Bowen had tripped over his own figures in his rush to declare "Mission Accomplished".

"The truth is that the total number of people arriving illegally by boat in the first three months of this year is three times the number that occurred in the last six years of the coalition government," he said."The minister has set a very low bar for the effective of his government's policies that have failed so comprehensively over the last three years."

http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news ... 1f07a.html

...........]"The truth is that the total number of people arriving illegally by boat in the first three months of this year is three times the number that occurred in the last six years of the coalition government," ............

read it leftards. the rights way worked, the lefts failed.

[sprintcyclist]

AUSTRALIA is locked into settling 4000 extra refugees as part of its swap with Malaysia even if none of the 800 asylum-seekers flagged to be sent to Malaysia in return are deported.
As the Gillard government came under renewed fire yesterday over the terms of its refugee swap with Kuala Lumpur, Immigration Department secretary Andrew Metcalfe admitted to a Senate committee that no asylum-seeker needed to be sent to Malaysia under the terms of the deal.

"(But) Australia will still resettle all 4000 humanitarian refugees even if no asylum-seekers are sent," he told a Senate estimates committee hearing.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nationa ... 6061471003

[sprintcyclist]

SPIRALING cost of living pressures mean a third of all Queenslanders, if not more, are living in poverty or dangerously close to it, a new report warns.
The Queensland Council of Social Service (QCOSS) report, which was released today, calls on governments to ensure safety nets for at-risk households are adequate.

The report cites the latest poverty statistics, from the 2006 census, which said 10 per cent of Queenslanders were living blow the breadline with another 20 per cent precariously close to it.

But there's been no fresh data on poverty since then, and QCOSS says the real figure could be much higher, in the wake of the global financial crisis and in the face of soaring bills for basics including electricity.

QCOSS president Karyn Walsh says the figure in a nation as prosperous as Australia is alarming...............

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/b ... 6061913874

"........let them eat cake.............."

[sprintcyclist]

AT Nundah State School, less than 400m from Wayne Swan's office, there is a tennis court. That tennis court sums up Wayne's World as Treasurer of Australia.
It is 80 per cent the size of a full court. Not the full quid, so to speak.

There used to be a full tennis court at Nundah State School, a good little earner as the locals regularly hired the court. Then the Building the Education Revolution, part of the Stimulus Package, arrived.

Notice how everything has big letters in Wayne's World?

The Building the Education Revolution deemed that Nundah State School needed a new building. The fact the school was well provided for did not matter.

The new building was set down on the tennis court. As a result, Nundah State School needed a new tennis court to replace the one built over by the Building the Education Revolution, a tennis court that had serviced the children and the community so well.

Well, it turns out that after building the deemed essential new building, there was insufficient room to build a new tennis court.

And so, to ensure there was a proper space between the fence and the baseline, the tennis court was built at 80 per cent the size of a tennis court. That's right, 80 per cent. Of course, no child learns tennis on an 80 per cent court, and no local players hire it.

All round, it was a pretty stupid deal. Definitely not the full quid.

Hey, but not half as stupid as Wayne's big new tax on mining companies (the mineral resources rent tax), which has been so slow in the making and unmaking (you will recall the earlier version was the resource super profits tax) that the Premier of Western Australia, after giving Wayne months of notice, has raised the mining royalties in his state, over which the state has an absolute right. This threat to Wayne's budget has caused him to threaten retribution on the voters of WA.

As a consequence, the three remaining Labor members of the House of Representatives from WA are pretty well kaput: Gary Gray with a margin of 3 per cent, Stephen Smith (he used to be foreign minister) with a margin of 5 per cent and newcomer Melissa Parke at 5 per cent. It may be possible that a Labor senator also hits the wall........

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nationa ... 6062946085

[Jovial Monk]

Of course, the Libs are perfect?

Don’t think so:

A couple posts from PB—if I was a Liberal supporter I would be hanging my head at this crassness and stupidity:

Abbott at Cancer Council Biggest Morning Tea: Kevin Rudd it is nice to see you back in the country. Sorry, (laughing) the devil made me say it.

Julia managed to give a speech earlier pushing the barrow of cancer prevention and not a word about govt, party lines.

Why is Abbott such a self-serving moron?

http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/ ... ent-876164

(Because no one else will serve him?)

What is more abbott pulls out his wallet and says I have once again got an empty wallet but have borrowed from a staffer to make my contribution to The Biggest Morning Tea but I do promise to pay it back.

I mean really would you even admit to this?

http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/ ... ent-876172


Still got a homo crush on him, cruntcyclist?

[Ethnic]

Let's hope the so-called 'Malaysia' solution works because nothing else Labor put forward has. Although I'm told that Malaysia can reject all of our illegals but we have to accept whatever they send us. I really hope Gillard didn't sink that low.

[sprintcyclist]

AUSTRALIA'S former human rights commissioner has delivered a scathing assessment of the federal government's refugee swap deal with Malaysia, saying a return to the Pacific Solution is preferable.
Sev Ogdowski, who was commissioner between 2000 and 2005, has also attacked the government's overall policy approach, saying Australia is now attracting asylum seekers.

"When you look at the refugee situation around the world, the numbers are going down, but we are attracting more of them," he told ABC Television today.

"And we are attracting more of them mainly because we have got rid of our Pacific Solution and we said: 'Come on, we look after you'."

He condemned the government for the deal that will potentially see 800 asylum seekers offloaded to Malaysia in exchange for Australia accepting 4000 genuine refugees.

Dr Ogdowski said Australia could not ensure their safety given Malaysia was not a signatory to either the UN's convention on refugee rights or on torture.A return to the Pacific Solution was to be preferred, he said.

"At least, when we had our detention centre in Nauru, you were able to control the conditions.

"If you send them to Malaysia ... I think it will be much worse."

Asked if it was surprising to be backing the Pacific Solution after previously being one of its chief critics, Dr Ogdowski replied: "It's extremely disappointing.

"However, (it's) a pragmatic response in the current circumstances."

As commissioner, Dr Ogdowski co-authored a ground-breaking report condemning the government for putting children in mandatory detention.

It eventually led to a big shift in the Howard government's policy approach.

But Dr Ogdowski believes not much has changed, and has called for another full-scale inquiry delving behind the scenes at Australia's immigration detention centres.

He noted the government was under pressure from higher numbers of asylum seekers, saying while there were now 7000 people in detention, it peaked at about 3500 during the Howard years.

"The government is panicking," Dr Ogdowski said.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/br ... 6063711982

[Jovial Monk]

Think you will find the boats will no longer come. Why they were an object of such hysteria who knows. All will be under control of UNHCR.

Oh come on, nothing else? Labor steered the country through the worst world economic crisis in 80 years with but one quarter of negative growth and now our unemployment level starts with a ‘4’ while in the US it starts with a ‘9’

In the last budget Howards excessive middleclass welfare got wound back to the tune of $20+Bn.

[sprintcyclist]

Think you will find the boats will no longer come. Why they were an object of such hysteria who knows. All will be under control of UNHCR.

Oh come on, nothing else? Labor steered the country through the worst world economic crisis in 80 years with but one quarter of negative growth and now our unemployment level starts with a ‘4’ while in the US it starts with a ‘9’

In the last budget Howards excessive middleclass welfare got wound back to the tune of $20+Bn.

wadda load of leftardian gash.
let me know when crims and illegals ahere to UNHCR - fuck off

tell me how our surplus compared to the US's deficit before the deceitful "economic crisis" - fuck off

the leftards crushed the middleclass to run their wasteful deficit - fuck off

[sprintcyclist]

THE Gillard government faces a parliamentary inquiry into the nation's immigration detention system, with Labor-supporting crossbenchers backing a proposed Coalition review.
As another boat carrying 52 asylum-seekers was intercepted off Ashmore Reef today, independent MP Andrew Wilkie and Greens MP Adam Bandt both voiced their support for the inquiry.

Mr Bandt welcomed the broadening of the proposed terms of the inquiry and is negotiating on the membership of the committee.

“Anything we can do to shed a light on the (policy) is something that I welcome,” he said.

In return for his support, Mr Bandt has secured Coalition backing for his own motion condemning the government's Malaysian refugee swap.

Mr Wilkie said it was obvious the system was in crisis, noting recent riots and suicides in detention centres, and the deadly Christmas Island boat tragedy of December 2010............

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nationa ... 6065725710