Thread: Finally the Aus Goverment have started showing some balls!

Thanks for the news update, Mid. However you haven't addressed the points I have made about your previous post. Possibly because they were quite unbalanced and silly ? Are you still insisting that :

Originally Posted by Mid

Total bull shit , the FACT is Australia has a minuscule number of the worlds refugees

The majority by a country mile are in West Bank + Gaza .

Refugee Council of Australia

Australia isn't even in the top dozen .

Are you still insisting this ? Or are you prepared to admit it was a silly statement and that you had not properly read the link you provided ????

By the way, here is why Terry said: "Australia is teetering on the brink of an an all out invasion of Illegal boat people".
Boat arrivals by financial year since 1989

Year

Number of boats

Number of people

1989–90

3

224

1990–91

5

158

1991–92

3

78

1992–93

4

194

1993–94

6

194

1994–95

21

1071

1995–96

14

589

1996–97

13

365

1997–98

13

157

1998–99

42

921

1999–00

75

4175

2000–01

54

4137

2001–02

19

3039

2002–03

0

0

2003–04

3

82

2004–05

0

0

2005–06

8

61

2006–07

4

133

2007–08

3

25

Year

Number of boats

Number of people (includes crew)

2008–09

23

1033*

2009–10

118

5609*

2010–11

89

4940**

And

These figures are represented in graph format below:


My information comes from this website:
http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/b...atarrivals.htm

I believe that the years they were low, between 2002 and 2008 were when the previous government was being tough on boat arrivals.