AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLITICIANS - REACH FOR THE REACH BUCKET! - ASYLUM SEEKERS POSSIBLY DROWNING AT SEA?

There must be something in the air in Australia. Each federal government seeks to outdo the previous ones when it comes to asylum seekers and forbidden entry into Australia.

The news that there is probably an asylum seeker boat full of Tamil refugees having left India for Australia and the probability that they have been transferred at sea to a Sri Lankan ship to take them to Sri Lanka where Tamils are hardly the flavour of the month to the Sri Lankan government bodes ill for this group of refugees.

The news that Australia's foreign minister is going to raise human rights issues with the Myanmar government during her current visit to that country must surely be one of the most hair-raisingly hypocritical acts of any recent federal government!

There are not too many depths still left for the current government to sink - they are doing their best to out-US the United States of America - but they are trying their best to show that the US Tea Party and other cohorts are now alive and well and taking firm hold in Australia.

Bleatings from the opposition (sic) [very sick!!] leader have shown that there is no end to the chickanery in the federal parliament involving practically all members of both houses.

Even the Greens are not excelling themselves over many issues, so the next 3 years will see us spiralling downwards at an ever-increasing speed of knots until we crash unstoppably into the cess- pool at the bottom of Australia.

Abbott and Gillard both came to this country as the equivalent of boat people, uninvited and taking their welcome here for granted as white Anglos actually coming from the UK.

A pox on all their houses!

Oh and how many people are we talking about? About 10 or 20 thousand in a rich country of 24 million - how pathetic!