I’ve previously covered the number of people that have died trying to come to Australia to take advantage of Rudd’s soft new illegal immigration laws. The death toll has recently gone up to 58:
Senior navy sources said they had been told several refugee boats had set sail for Australia last year from the northeast of Sri Lanka, but had not been heard from since.
“There is no possibility of rescue in the middle of the Indian Ocean,” a navy source said.
It’s ALP style compassion.
UPDATE
58 people have been lured to their deaths thanks to Rudd. So one might expect some remorse from the PM. But oh no, go ramp up the spin machine instead:
KEVIN Rudd has accused Tony Abbott of presiding over a policy dead zone when it comes to border security, saying the Opposition Leader is “100 per cent headline and zero per cent policy”.
Every single election promise Rudd made about border security has been broken. I am sure Abbott will have a full policy outlined by the next election that he will actually keep if elected.
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That’s 63 as of May 2010.
FIVE suspected asylum seekers are feared drowned after they decided to swim from their troubled vessel using tubes and lifejackets.