Kerry O'Brien vs Stephen Smith on asylum seekers 28Oct09 | The 7.30 Report - ABC Tv

Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith gets grilled by Kerry O'Brien over the 78 Sri Lankan asylum seekers who have been held in limbo on board the Oceanic Viking for the past 10 days.

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• Kevin
• Rudd
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• Oceanic
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• illegal
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[megadak123]

Thanks you Labor voters who voted for more open borders and more 3rd world losers from Africa and Middle East and Asia.I hope they move in next door to you so you'll have a great time with them.Rudd and Labor are so full of shit telling us they are tough on the borders and tuggboat arrivals,they believe in this shit happening because they want one global government and a world without borders.

[noahjackson1]

@megadak123 Actually, less people are arriving on our shores in boats under Rudd than under John Howard.

[laktony2]

they are tamil terrorists and their families who lost the WAR

send them back .... we know how to deal with this tamil terrorists

[noahjackson1]

What makes you so certain of that?

[skwidink]

To megadak, laktony: Your lack of compassion demonstrates your inherent selfishness. Your lack of understanding of the issue demonstrates your intellectual deficit. Your inability to articulate an idea that is not underpinned by hate demonstrates your fear & your willingness to be inspired to hysteria based on the unfounded lies of reactionaries like Abbot & Howard demonstrates your inability to think for yourselves & arrive at a reasoned, dispassionate & reasonable opinion. Are you skinheads?

[ceskazbrojovka17HMR]

@noahjackson1 Are you high?

[berr86]

@megadak123

You make me embarrassed to be an Australian.

[Rommeljnr]

@noahjackson1 Dont know where you get that information but it is BS and i know i was in the Royal Australian Navy. 3 boats in the last 6 years of the Liberal John Howard goverment. More than 160 and counting in the first 3 years of DUDD and the labout party.

[MelbourneMr]

Any illegal immigrants who come to Australia via Indonesia should simply be handed back to Indonesia. If Indonesia refuses to accept them we should cancel the 100's of millions of dollars aid we give them.

Can you imagine Japan or Singapore being manipulated to take illegal immigrants the way Australia is? Australia needs statesman and diplomats with GUTS. We haven't had that in my lifetime under Labour, or Liberal, governments.

[eurodude9999]

@freekraider Yep, your right. Let's hope liberal are in at the next election so they can start cleaning up this mess...

[eurodude9999]

@noahjackson1 If you believe that, then you've been fooled by the Rudd government, just like thousands of other Australians. The facts are, Howard kept them out, Rudd is housing them in 4 star hotels. This is crap and by far the biggest fuck up by Rudd so far.

[freekraider]

@noahjackson1 Do u have ANY idea what you are talking about? I've been listening in on some parliamentary debates on this topic and even Labor admits that more people are coming in by boat illegally. The problem is, when you let in one boat, more people begin to try their luck. Megadak123 may not have it 100% correct but you are 100% incorrect. Next time do some research before defending one of the MANY Labor stuff-ups.

[92benno92]

@megadak123

What the fuck are you talking about?

You're the one that sounds deluded.