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So we have 40 people dead, foreign governments inconvenienced, people threatening to blow themselves up, people smugglers getting rich, Defence personnel forced into undertaking a task that saps morale – more than any war in Iraq or Afghanistan, and of course tax-payers are having to pay for all of it thanks to Rudd’s incompetent handling of illegal immigration. What then is the lead article from the ABC about the issue?

Influx prompts Christmas Island bed boost

Immigration Minister Chris Evans has told AM he has got a plan to cope with any further arrivals…200 extra bunk beds…hire portaloos…

So the hiring of portaloos is a lead story. It seems the ABC is doing its best to cover-up the real issues, like they don’t exist. It is also apparent that any ALP media release becomes a lead ABC story and is always framed in the positive. At the bottom of the article there is the token mention of the opposition:

Ms Stone says the Government’s border protection policies are in chaos.

Of course the ABC is not interested in undertaking any critical analysis of the government’s immigration policy – just get those portaloos in!

This little ALP-media protection pact on illegal immigration has been going on for a while now, from Piers Akermann:

THREE boats carrying asylum seekers arrived illegally in Australian waters over the past week making an absolute mockery of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s pre-election pledge that he would turn them back. 

That promise, made during an interview with  The Australian’s  senior political staffers Paul Kelly and Dennis Shanahan, was rushed into print on Friday, November 23, 2007, the day before the last federal election.

With just 24 hours before the polls opened, it was an attempt to reassure voters that on border security, as with economic issues, a Rudd Government would not depart from the sound course set by the Howard government.

That the pledge has never been honoured is not surprising to those who saw through the Rudd charade during the election campaign but it should be now apparent to those who ensured that hope triumphed over wisdom in the actual election that this prime minister has habitually misled the Australian people.

UPDATE

Seems the portaloos and demountable houses that are being sent to Christmas Island to ramp up accommodation for more of Rudd’s uninvited guests, were intended for others:

The Opposition’s Immigration Minister Sharman Stone says the demountables had been earmarked for Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory.

“This is quite extraordinary we have Indigenous Australians making way for these new asylum seekers who are here because they could pay the cash and had the contacts to get on down via the smugglers,” she said.

“This is chaos, no country can afford to continue like this.”

I can just hear Rudd say it: Sorry!