Australia shows how it should be done

[Dedworth]

50 asylum seekers sent home to Sri Lanka

Another group of Sri Lankan men has been flown home from Christmas Island.



http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-11-1...-lanka/4378442

Well done Australia - ship 'em out !

[Arthur Little]

... maybe so! But there again, it's laughable too, when one considers that many of today's Aussies are direct descendants of the boatloads of British convicts whose punishment for their assorted misdeeds consisted of their being shipped "down under" to Botany Bay during the closing years of the 18th - and throughout much of the 19th - centuries.

[stevewool]

i would not mind being shipped to Australia

[Arthur Little]

i would not mind being shipped to Australia

Weather-wise, I'm sure there're many here who would agree with you, Steve. Trouble is - unlike when the £10 Assisted Passage Scheme was available to all and sundry at the height of its popularity in the 1960s - I imagine people from just about every other nation worldwide (including ) wanting to emigrate to Australia nowadays must first, prove there is either work awaiting them on their arrival ... or they have close relatives already settled in that particular commonwealth country.

[andy222]

Fair play to them.

[fred]

A lot of changes in Australia just lately.. I know a number of Aussie pensioners , including those on disability that have been forced to leave the R.P to return to Aus.. None of them wanted to return and all feel very bitter.
This may be one reason they have had to become stricter on immigrants in general..
From what I hear the current prime minister is hated from just about every Aussie I've spoken to in the last few years...
Me?
I have no opinion....
Not my problem.

[Arthur Little]

From what I hear the *current prime minister is hated from just about every Aussie I've spoken to in the last few years...

... sentiments they evidently have in common with a substantial number of our own members about *THEIRS - especially those now scrimping and saving to raise the recent level of income deemed necessary to bring lawfully-wedded partners to this country.

[Dedworth]

From what I hear the current prime minister is hated from just about every Aussie I've spoken to in the last few years...

She's Welsh might be related to Kinnock

[les_taxi]

It's not going to last tho
I have chatted to various Aussies lately and they are starting to have to give in to certain immigrants demands and beliefs
They are maybe 30 years behind but will catch up with all th pc crap and rubbish we have here.

[nnomad]

she's welsh might be related to kinnock

o m g !!!!!!!!!!!!