I picked this up at the Australian Conservative , regarding the ABC’s propaganda effort to encourage potential immigrants to engage in criminal practices in order to obtain permanent Australian residency. From the ABC’s blog Off Air, where ABC journalists drop any pretence to objectivity and let their left-wing fantasies run free.
The journalist is Chris Uhlmann, and we are treated to a predictable moralising diatribe about how Australia should have an open doors immigration policy to anyone rich enough to pay $20k to a people smuggler to get them into Australia. Such is the twisted moralising of the left these days. Always quick to claim good intentions but never willing to take responsibility for those intentions – like those 47 dead people who were trying to make their way to Australia, lured by Rudd’s promise of permanent residency.
Uhlmann is still living in an illusion that the immigrants have not been encouraged by Rudd’s visa changes, even though the AFP warned people smugglers would use it as a marketing ploy and an independent investigation from the Australian found that potential illegal immigrants in Indonesia had heard and were encouraged by the visa changes.
Off Air editors rarely allow comments for fear of dissent, aka People’s Republic of Canberra China. However, I was encouraged that comments were allowed by Uhlmann, but I could only spot one semi-dissenting opinion. All the rest were lock stock in tune with the article, almost as if ABC employees had taken to the site to put in bogus entries. Ah, it’s ‘your’ ABC so you better get used to it.