More rickety boats than Navy to rescue them, now a merchant vessel bringing their passengers in to Christmas Island. Michael Smith News:
A dud cabinet supporting the man with the killer policies
See here about the Christmas Island supermarket for locals and other contracts.
UPDATE, Quadrant has more: Kevin Rudd, Moral Vacuum
He demeans Australia with a callous, unworkable policy to stop the boats. There is no principle this man won’t compromise, no decency he will not violate, in the name of political expedience and personal ambition
Peter Smith writes:
We can’t keep people in inhumane conditions. It is un-Australian. It will justifiably besmirch Australia’s reputation for decades and decades to come.
Rudd undid John Howard’s successful policies and put nothing in their place. He is totally accountable for the deaths at sea and for inhumanely incarcerating people: men, women and children. It is worth repeating: Rudd is the man who did it, and his answer is to do more of it. He makes no apology, admits no wrong, and concedes no flaw. We cannot afford any more of him. He is a plague on Australia’s good standing in the world.
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