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Australia Turns Back Two Boatloads of Illegal Immigrants

by Will Jones
11 July 2024 7:26 PM

For the second time in two weeks Australia has turned back a boatload of illegal migrants, forcing the intended asylum seekers to return to Indonesia. Sky News has the story.

The group of 44 asylum seekers landed on the remote Indonesian island of Rote Ndao on Monday, several weeks after they were intercepted en route to Australia.

According to local authorities, the group of 36 Bangladeshi and eight Rohingya asylum seekers were intercepted while trying to reach Australia from West Java’s southern coast but were intercepted by the Australian Broder Force (ABF).

They were detained in their vessel for 18 days before being provided with two modern speed boats, each equipped with just enough fuel, food and water for 22 people to make the trip to Rote Ndao – 286km from Australia’s Ashmore Reef.

Rote Ndao Police Chief Mardiono told the Australian the group had run out of almost all their supplies when they arrived on his island.

“They beached the boats when they see land because they’ve run out of fuel. When we checked the boats, they’ve run out of everything so they had no other choice than to land. I think (Australian authorities) have calculated how much fuel they need to get here,” he said. …

The 44 men on Rote are now being processed by Indonesian immigration authorities since police found no indication that they were smugglers themselves.

They are the second group of asylum seekers the Australian Government has reportedly provided with boats and told them to head back to Indonesia in as many weeks.

On June 30th it was revealed that a group of 28 asylum seekers and two boat crew had been given a speedboat and told to travel back to Indonesia after Australian authorities seized and destroyed their original vessel.

Now, that’s how you do it. If Labour wants to neutralise the threat from Reform and stay in power for a decade, it could a lot worse than starting with this. But it won’t, of course.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: AustraliaIllegal MigrantsImmigrationMass immigrationSmall boats crisisWoke

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BurlingtonBertie
BurlingtonBertie
2 years ago

That too could backfire & morph into a digital ID for children, the very society which needs to be avoided at all costs, for their ‘safety’.
It will be tracking & tracing of children. Truly terrifying.
How about parents take some responsibility for setting up controls? Difficult to do? Yes. But parenting isn’t easy.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago

treason

/ˈtriːz(ə)n/

noun

the crime of betraying one’s country.

The abuse of our language becomes more aggregious day by day so I thought it pertinent to provide a dictionary definition and this is from ‘Oxford Dictionaries.’

Is anybody, certainly on here, under any allusions that our government is and has been for over 2.5 years acting daily in a treasonous manner?

We are being insulted, betrayed, denigrated, laughed at on a daily basis. Just one example from yesterday, the F & C spending, whoops ‘investing,’ £11.6 million, or was it billions, and who cares, in taking over coffee plantations in Mexico. Yet this government knows very well that people in this country will shortly be facing live or die questions such as ‘heat or eat.’ If this is not bald, naked treason I don’t know what is.

Would it be surprising if the BBC even now was rehearsing some funeral footage or doctoring some old Stalingrad films in order to present the nation’s dire Winter plight? The queues outside the soup kitchens doubling as warm centres and the pitiful sites outside food banks.

Let’s be in no doubt and no need to corrupt our wonderful language, we are being assaulted and betrayed by a treasonous government.

Last edited 2 years ago by huxleypiggles
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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Government = Mafia

I wish I felt this wasn’t an eternal truth.

Knowing this makes a lot of things easier to understand and deal with.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago

I’ve posted this before but it bears reposting as it seems to me an excellent from the horse’s mouth insight into how these people think. It’s from Michael Wendling of the BBC disinformation unit, in answer to a complaint I made about unbalanced reporting of an early anti-lockdown protest. He clearly doesn’t see his customers as adults and he’s not ashamed to admit it.

“Of course those who believe in conspiracy theories are not going to call their beliefs conspiracy theories, and are going to call themselves mainstream, moderate people.
We viewed footage of the speakers and spoke to people who were there.
We have no obligation to give a platform to erroneous ideas. We don’t, to take an extreme example, broadcast the manifestos of mass murderers alongside police statements so that people can “make up their own minds”.
I’m not saying the people there were violent. Some of them were (as the story reflected) were drawn by legitimate concerns. But the speakers (Mr Icke and others) were not expressing mainstream views that would benefit from airing and debate.”

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JXB
JXB
2 years ago

It’s that 1% again… 99% are worried about energy costs, rising prices, jobs, crime/policing, education, medical care, but top of the agenda for the 1% is climate change, ‘misinformation’, Russia/Ukraine, gender/homosexuality, racism, hate speech.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago
Reply to  JXB

Indeed
A nut job conspiracy theorist would think that small groups of powerful people are manipulating the narrative and pushing the 1% issues for their own ends
I have a YouGov account and every second survey has questions about sustainability and diversity etc regardless of the subject- they want to make people think these things are what we should be worrying about

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A Y M
A Y M
2 years ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Why do you have a YouGov account?!

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago
Reply to  A Y M

I started during covid when they kept quoting polls that said the public supported lockdowns. I thought I should try and correct the imbalance. I’ve carried on doing the same thing with questions regarding their or their clients’ woke agendas. They give you a bit of money from time to time, though that’s not my main reason for doing it.

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A Y M
A Y M
2 years ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Fair enough. I tried that for the same reasons but the endless questions about B list personalities was eroding my brain.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago
Reply to  A Y M

I’ve never heard of any of them so I just switch off for those bits

I find it an interesting insight into what the enemy are thinking

I would pay good money to know the extent to which all the woke agenda type questions are requested by clients or suggested by YouGov staff. I reckon mainly the latter as they are almost always worded the same.

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stewart
stewart
2 years ago

The left are better at pushing their causes in general because they find the most abhorrent opponents to their causes and then paint everyone who doesn’t support them with the same brush.

  • So, if you have any reservations about the Black Lives Matter movement, you’re like the Ku Klux Klan.
  • If you don’t want your children to be taught that there are more than two genders, you’re a transphobe.
  • If you don’t actively show your support for gay and lesbian people, you’re a homophobe.
  • If you question the climate change evidence you’re a climate denier, just like the people who denied smoking was bad for you.

If the right did the same thing then anyone who even said a peep in favour of the Online Safety Bill, even if the views were reasonable like wanting to make sure children didn’t see pornography, then we would loudly and aggressively call them totalitarians.

Our “problem” is that we don’t do that. We try to engage reasonably. But of course it’s a losing battle. We’re bringing knives to the fight while they’re bringing semi-automatic assault rifles.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Funny you should mention this, because this popped up in my YouTube suggestions today and Victor Davis Hanson from just under 4 minutes in has some interesting things to say on this subject: Victor Davis Hanson: This is why the left feels ‘morally superior’ – YouTube

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stewart
stewart
2 years ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Good stuff. VDH is a legend. I love the clarity with which he conveys his messages.

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RW
RW
2 years ago

Unless some mandatory, digital ID scheme which can’t be forged, at least not easily, is introduced, there’s no way to determine if someone sitting in front of a web browser is legally minor or not. Hence, it makes ‘fuck all’ of a difference if this bill is said to be about child protection or about the proper rearing of wild Tibetan donkeys. The effect will be universal censorship by default in order to ensure that no unsupervised children can ever access something the goverment says they must not access.

Policing their children’s behaviour is responsibilty of the parents.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago
Reply to  RW

“Policing their children’s behaviour is responsibilty of the parents.”

Absolutely, and there are already lots of tools available to help with this, though I still think the best approach is to talk to them, set an example, and trust them as long as they repay that trust.

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
2 years ago
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Precisely. To see what happens when it goes wrong, look to the publicity given to Ian Russell

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
2 years ago

Yes, but where ARE the adults these days, hm?

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
2 years ago

I would argue that the greatest source of misinformation in the last 50 years has been the US Government.

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RTSC
RTSC
2 years ago

The list of prohibited subjects will be attached in a Statutory Instrument because that can be amended almost immediately by a Minister if “there is an emergency” – with no oversight by Parliament whatsoever.

It will be a Dictators charter.

We have been bombarded with misinformation by the Government for the past 2 years but they have sought to silence whistle-blower experts who were challenging the official narrative. That alone is proof that an Online Harms Bill should never go ahead. It will silence dissenters and critical-thinkers. It’s the equivalent of the Medieval Inquisition and the ban on the Bible being translated from Latin into languages ordinary people could understand for fear it would “challenge the Priesthood.”

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
2 years ago

But how can we posibly disagree with more censorship when Ian Russell is assuaging his feelings of guilt over his daughter’s suicide by emoting all over the MSM?

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